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Wreck and salvage laws, the role of the Receiver of the Wreck, wreck owners and salvors and how to report wreck material.
How to prepare or review a management plan for a Protected Landscape in England.
Find out how much your CITES permit, certificate or registration will cost.
How to assess planning proposals that may affect great crested newts if the developer applies to use the Natural England district level licensing (DLL) scheme.
How to assess a planning application when there are water voles on or near a proposed development site.
Register for a licence to survey bats using torches for scientific, research or educational purposes, including informing development projects.
Register for a licence to survey bats using your hand, artificial light, endoscopes and hand-held nets for scientific, research or educational purposes, including for commissioned surveys in relation to proposed developments.
How to assess a planning application when there are hazel (common) dormice on or near a proposed development site.
How to assess a planning application when there are otters on or near a proposed development site.
How to assess a planning application when there are wild birds on or near a proposed development site.
Find out what experience and references you need to support your application or registration, and what form your referees need to complete.
As a planning authority, find out how to review applications that might affect protected sites and areas.
Ecologists can use European protected species (EPS) policies on development sites to benefit EPS by changing survey, mitigation or compensation methods.
The criteria you must meet to secure a licence to release Eurasian beavers into the wild in England.
How Defra and Natural England license the control of certain wild bird species.
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.
Information responsible authorities should include in a local nature recovery strategy.
Register for a licence to take, disturb or possess hazel dormice to survey for research, conservation or development projects.
How to manage beaver activities on your land without a licence and when you need a licence.
Plants that you need a licence to sell.
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