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Register for a licence to catch and relocate white-clawed crayfish for maintenance work on water bodies and find out how to report your actions.
Get a licence to catch alive or kill wild birds on or around your aerodrome for air safety purposes.
Standing advice for local planning authorities, developers and ecologists for assessing the impacts of wind farms on wild birds.
Register for a licence to survey bats using harp traps for scientific, research, or educational purposes including informing development projects.
An overview of beaver activities and the 5-step management approach.
How to apply for a licence to capture, transport and re-release beavers or modify or remove beaver dams, burrows and lodges at any time of year.
Find out what you can do to stop deer causing damage to your property.
Licence to survey bats for conservation purposes.
Register for a licence to displace water voles to allow internal drainage boards to carry out works that could disturb or damage their burrows and report your actions.
Advice for licensed operators on how to cage-trap, vaccinate and mark badgers to control bovine tuberculosis (TB) in England.
How to monitor beaver populations and share data.
Use this licence to take shrews to ring or mark them, or for scientific or educational purposes.
Get a licence to trap edible dormice for health and safety and other purposes.
As an authorised person, use this general licence to keep disabled schedule 4 wild birds for up to 15 days to rehabilitate them.
Get a general licence to remove abandoned or unsuccessful eggs from wild birds' nests between 1 September and 31 January.
Get a general licence to sell dead wild birds and their parts.
Use this general licence to keep disabled schedule 4 wild birds for up to 6 weeks to rehabilitate them.
Register for a licence to modify or remove Eurasian beaver dams or damaged burrows outside their breeding season.
Register for a licence to temporarily mark hazel dormice to survey for research, conservation or development projects.
Register to use a licence to maintain drainage ditches inhabited by little whirlpool ramshorn snails and find out how to report your actions.
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