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Licence to train volunteer bat roost visitors and survey bats for conservation.
Find out how the Forestry Commission supports you if you operate in woodland designated a site of special scientific interest (SSSI).
Get conservation advice on the impact of activity on a marine site and find out the status of advice using the interactive map.
Use Natural England's advice to protect European sites and find out if your activity or proposal may potentially impact the species and habitats within them.
Register for a licence to temporarily mark hazel dormice to survey for research, conservation or development projects.
Register for licences to cage-trap and mark badgers (Meles meles) for vaccinating them against bovine tuberculosis (TB) to help prevent the spread of disease.
The byelaw for bottom towed fishing gear, including an impact assessment and charts.
Get a licence to interfere with badger setts for the purpose of undertaking watercourse or drainage maintenance operations.
Register to use a licence to maintain drainage ditches inhabited by little whirlpool ramshorn snails and find out how to report your actions.
Get a licence to capture and transport live Eurasian otters (Lutra lutra) that are trapped in fisheries to prevent damage.
Use Natural England’s advice packages to find out if your activity, proposal or area has a potential impact on MPAs and the species and habitats within them.
How to assess a planning application when there are freshwater pearl mussels on or near a proposed development site.
Find out when and how to appeal if Natural England refuses you consent to carry out an activity on a site of special scientific interest.
Get a general licence to take mallard duck eggs for incubation and rearing in captivity as long as you release them later in the year.
Explains how the Animal Welfare Act 2006 applies to wildlife.
Get a licence to sell dead specimens of protected species legally taken from the wild before 30 October 1981.
Get a general licence to trap stoats to prevent serious damage to vulnerable livestock.
How to amend or remove a registration on the biodiversity gain sites register, or amend an allocation of off-site biodiversity gains to a development.
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