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How to assess a planning application when there are protected plants, fungi or lichens on or near a proposed development site.
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.
Terms and conditions for paying for a wildlife licence to carry out work that affects wildlife and its habitat.
How to assess a planning application when there are white-clawed crayfish on or near a proposed development site.
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.
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.
Which chemicals you can use in or near a bat roost and what you need to know before you use them.
Find out when you must consult Natural England or the Environment Agency if you're preparing plans or considering development proposals.
How Defra and Natural England license the control of certain wild bird species.
Find out about the different marine species and how they are protected UK wildlife legislation.
How to apply for a licence to modify or remove dams, burrows and lodges at any time of year.
Get a licence to own dead species protected under annex 4 of the Habitats Directive for scientific or educational purposes.
Get advice from Natural England on planning proposals that will require a protected species mitigation licence and what charges apply.
What conservation translocations are, and how and why they might take place in England.
Plants that you need a licence to sell.
Register for a licence to survey bats using harp traps for research, conservation or development projects.
How to assess a planning application when there are freshwater pearl mussels on or near a proposed development site.
Get a licence to catch alive or kill wild birds on or around your aerodrome for air safety purposes.
Get a licence to carry out investigations of wildlife and other crime that could affect protected species and their habitats in England.
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