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Get a licence to catch alive or kill wild birds on or around your aerodrome for air safety purposes.
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.
Register for a licence to modify or remove Eurasian beaver dams or damaged burrows outside their breeding season.
Check if a CITES item that you want to import is listed as having an import suspension due to its trade being considered unsustainable.
How your personal information is used when you report dead wild birds.
Find out how to use nets or traps to catch birds in food premises and safely release them within the terms of your licence.
The conditions you must follow if you carry out cage trapping and dispatch of wild birds under Defra and Natural England licences.
Get a general licence to release native and formerly native wild bird or animal species whose release is normally prohibited.
Register for a licence to temporarily mark hazel dormice to survey for research, conservation or development projects.
Guidance on reducing the risks of getting salmonella infections from reptiles.
Get a general licence to sell captive bred live wild birds.
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.
Get a licence to interfere with badger setts for the purpose of undertaking watercourse or drainage maintenance operations.
Environment Agency regulatory position on disposing of trees or plants affected by disease or pests by burning: RPS 71.
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 this general licence to keep disabled schedule 4 wild birds for up to 6 weeks to rehabilitate them.
Who is eligible for Darwin Plus project and fellowship funding, and how to apply.
How to assess a planning application when there are freshwater pearl mussels on or near a proposed development site.
Get a general licence to keep birds in show cages that don't meet size requirements.
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