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Get conservation advice on the impact of activity on a marine site and find out the status of advice using the interactive map.
Licence to survey bats for conservation purposes.
Interactive WebApps to support MMO’s assessment and potential management of Stage 4 marine protected areas (MPAs) and guidance to help users make the most of this platform.
How to monitor beaver populations and share data.
Register for a licence to displace water voles to allow internal drainage boards to carry out works that could disturb or damage their burrows and report your actions.
Register for a licence to set up feeding stations for hen harriers in northern England and report your actions.
Register to use a licence to maintain drainage ditches inhabited by little whirlpool ramshorn snails and find out how to report your actions.
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.
Get a licence to interfere with badger setts for the purpose of undertaking watercourse or drainage maintenance operations.
Use Natural England’s advice packages to find out if your activity, proposal or area has a potential impact on MPAs and the species and habitats within them.
Get a general licence to sell dead wild red squirrels and pine martens.
You may need to complete a wildfire management plan if you're applying for a licence to burn heather or grass on peat deeper than 30cm in a less favoured area.
Apply for a licence to take and mark badgers to enable vaccination to prevent the spread of bovine tuberculosis (bovine TB) in cattle.
You may need to complete a restoration plan if you're applying for a licence to burn heather or grass on peat deeper than 30cm in a less favoured area.
Register for a licence to temporarily mark hazel dormice to survey for research, conservation or development projects – and report actions taken under the licence.
Register for a licence to survey bats using mist nets and acoustic lures for scientific, research or educational purposes, including informing development projects - and report actions taken under the licence.
Get a general licence to temporarily possess and transport dead bats for testing as part of the passive surveillance for bat rabies project.
An overview of beaver activities and the 5-step management approach.
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