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Use this form for applications where the applicant does not have management control over all or part of the land for the full length of a potential agreement.
Get a licence to catch certain birds trapped on food premises.
As a group of fisheries, apply for a licence to control cormorants causing serious damage within a defined area or catchment.
Use this form to register your interest in a voluntary role.
Apply for a licence for science or conservation purposes, or register for a class licence to visit roosts as a volunteer or do surveys; find out if you need to pay and how to report your actions.
You must report all volunteering-related incidents, accidents, near misses and concerns to Natural England.
Licences to release non-native species into the wild
Use this form to apply for an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) (Agriculture) screening decision for projects that will increase agricultural productivity of uncultivated land or semi-natural areas.
Use this form to identify maintenance work and show work undertaken on traditional farm buildings as part of a Countryside Stewardship agreement.
Pay for a quick check of your notice to do work on a site of special scientific interest (SSSI) before you submit it.
Apply for a licence to disturb protected species of wild birds for science, education and conservation work and find out how to report your actions.
Complete this form if you're an applicant applying to register a biodiversity gain site or record allocation of off-site gains.
Find out what livestock records Countryside Stewardship agreement holders need to keep.
Apply for a licence application to sell dead or live protected animals and plants and find out how to report your actions.
Apply for a licence to do development or other work that may affect otters and find out how to report your actions.
Calculate nutrient budgets for developments in the catchment of River Eden SAC.
Apply for a licence to kill, take, disturb or possess a badger for survey, research or conservation work, find out about references and how to report your actions.
Apply for a licence to carry out work that may affect natterjack toads and find out how to report your actions.
Calculate nutrient budgets for developments in the catchment of River Itchen SAC.
Show what impact an activity will have on European protected species and whether their favourable conservation status will be maintained.
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