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Find out about the strategic licence trial for work that affects water voles in Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Thurrock or Southend-on-Sea.
Complete declaration forms as part of an application for a bat mitigation licence.
Register for a licence to survey barn owls to assess the effect of a development project on them.
How to assess a planning application when there are freshwater or migratory fish on or near a proposed development site.
The conditions you must follow if you carry out cage trapping and dispatch of wild birds under Defra and Natural England licences.
When you can bring seal, walrus and sea lion products into Great Britain. How recognised authorities can get approval to export seal products to Great Britain for trade.
How to assess a planning application when there are white-clawed crayfish on or near a proposed development site.
How Defra and Natural England license the control of certain wild bird species.
Register for a licence to displace water voles to allow work that could disturb them or damage their burrows and report your actions.
Get a licence to catch alive or kill wild birds on or around your aerodrome for air safety purposes.
How to assess a planning application when there are Eurasian beavers 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.
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.
How to assess a planning application when there are invertebrates on or near a proposed development site.
The criteria you must meet to secure a licence to release Eurasian beavers into the wild in England.
How to apply for an individual licence to release common pheasants and red-legged partridges on special protection areas, special areas of conservation, or within 500 metres of their boundaries – and report actions taken und…
How to notify the Marine Management Organisation that you are carrying out a seismic or geophysical survey.
Get a licence to capture and transport live Eurasian otters (Lutra lutra) that are trapped in fisheries to prevent damage.
Find out how and when you can apply to be an accredited consultant for bat roost mitigation work, how to register sites, and if you need to pay.
How to get trained to set cage traps for, vaccinate and mark badgers.
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