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Apply for a licence to disturb protected species of wild birds for science, education and conservation work and find out how to report your actions.
Apply for an organisational licence for your business for routine activities that affect protected species, and find out if you need to pay.
Report any action taken under a licence to interfere with badger setts for forestry or drainage purposes.
Submit this assessment form with Countryside Stewardship applications that include WN5 or WN6 options.
Make a complaint about rabbits causing significant crop damage on your land.
Apply for a licence for science or conservation purposes, or register for a class licence to visit roosts as a volunteer or do surveys; find out if you need to pay and how to report your actions.
Competent authorities must give notice of their decision to allow a plan or project that has an adverse effect on a European site to go ahead.
Apply for a licence application to sell dead or live protected animals and plants and find out how to report your actions.
Licences to release non-native species into the wild
Apply for a licence to take or kill seals in rivers and find out how to report your actions.
Public bodies should use this form to pay for advice on carrying out or approving work on or near sites of special scientific interest (SSSIs).
Apply for a licence to carry out work that may affect smooth snakes or sand lizards and find out how to report your actions.
Calculate nutrient budgets for developments in the catchment of River Wensum SAC.
Apply for a licence to sell black-headed gull (Larus ridibundus) eggs for human consumption and find out how to report your actions.
As a Natural England contractor, complete the contractor's licence form to allow you to download aerial data in the UK provided by APGB consortium.
Use these forms if you need to apply for a consent decision to increase the productivity of land for agriculture.
As a group of fisheries, apply for a licence to control cormorants causing serious damage within a defined area or catchment.
Apply for a licence to kill, take, disturb or possess a badger for survey, research or conservation work, find out about references and how to report your actions.
Apply for a licence to kill, take, disturb or possess wildlife for survey, research or conservation work, or to prevent stoats from damaging livestock.
Expressions of interest for a project which aims to improve people’s mental health through green social prescribing.
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