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When you get a Special Nature Conservation Order (SNCO) and how to challenge it, what a stop notice means, and get consent for restricted activities that affect European sites.
Register for licences to cage-trap and mark badgers (Meles meles) for vaccinating them against bovine tuberculosis (TB) to help prevent the spread of disease.
Products and chemicals you can use in or near a bat roost if bats are not present.
Owners or occupiers of land, or people authorised by them, can use this general licence to release common pheasants or red-legged partridges on certain European sites or within their 500m buffer zones.
Use this licence to take shrews to ring or mark them, or for scientific or educational purposes.
Explains how the Animal Welfare Act 2006 applies to wildlife.
Licence to survey bats for conservation 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.
Use Natural England's advice to protect European sites and find out if your activity or proposal may potentially impact the species and habitats within them.
Find out what a volunteer bat roost visitor (VBRV) does and how to get trained and licenced to carry out bat roost visits.
The conditions you must follow if you carry out cage trapping and dispatch of wild birds under Defra and Natural England licences.
Certain vessels must use an acoustic deterrent device, known as a 'pinger', to reduce the level of dolphin and porpoise (cetacean) by-catch.
Find out when and how to appeal if Natural England refuses you consent to carry out an activity on a site of special scientific interest.
Use this general licence to capture and temporarily possess live bats to test for European bat lyssavirus and kill those with the virus.
Licence to train volunteer bat roost visitors and survey bats for conservation.
Get conservation advice on the impact of activity on a marine site and find out the status of advice using the interactive map.
How to get trained to set cage traps for, vaccinate and mark badgers.
Advice for licensed operators on how to cage-trap, vaccinate and mark badgers to control bovine tuberculosis (TB) in England.
Map of European sites in England and the 500 metre buffer zone around these sites on 31 May 2021.
The byelaw for bottom towed fishing gear, including an impact assessment and charts.
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