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How to deal with wild birds causing a health or safety issue, or a problem on your farm or fishery and when you need a licence.
Find out if your ivory item may qualify for the pre-1918 outstandingly high artistic, cultural or historical value exemption, how to apply and what to do if it is refused or revoked.
Register as an ecological consultant to disturb or capture common bats, or damage or destroy low conservation status roosts; find out how to register a site and if you need to pay.
Guidance on the methods that can be used to help manage wild birds like geese, gulls and pigeons without a licence.
Find out about the different marine species and how they are protected UK wildlife legislation.
How to assess a planning application when there are protected plants, fungi or lichens on or near a proposed development site.
What conservation translocations are, and how and why they might take place in England.
What you must do to avoid harming hazel dormice and when you’ll need a licence.
How Defra and Natural England license the control of certain wild bird species.
Apply for your organisation to become a responsible body for conservation covenants.
Find out which plants are banned from sale, which need a licence and how to get a licence.
Find out how to control wild geese populations using egg oiling or by round-up and culling, if you’re permitted to do so under the terms of your licence.
How to apply for a licence from Natural England to release beavers into the wild in England.
As a landowner, occupier or authorised person, use this general licence to release common pheasants or red-legged partridges on specified special protection areas or within their 500-metre buffer zones.
A list of designated responsible bodies able to enter into conservation covenant agreements with landowners in England.
How to assess a planning application when there are natterjack toads on or near a proposed development site.
Find out what a volunteer bat roost visitor (VBRV) does and how to get trained and licenced to carry out bat roost visits.
Competent authorities must take action to help protect, conserve and restore the protected habitats and species of European sites.
How to check if an ivory item you're buying or hiring has been registered or certified as exempt, and what you need to do as a new owner.
How to prepare a planning application when there are protected species on or near a proposed development site.
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