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Report a dead or injured animal such as a badger, fox or domestic pet found on the road
Find out how you can control pests on your property - help from professionals, methods you can and cannot use, protecting wildlife, getting a wildlife licence
Rights of way and right to roam - access rights of way, open access and permissive access land, use common lands, the Countryside Code, report problems.
You have the right to access some land for walking or certain other…
You can walk on all public rights of way. Some public rights of way are…
You can access some land across England without having to use paths - this…
You may be able to access private land if the landowner has agreed to let…
Apply for a licence to carry out work that may affect bats, find out if you need to pay and how to report your actions.
Open and closed season for hunting, what you can use and the wildlife you can hunt
Common land, village greens and right to roam - find out your rights
Find protected areas, check if your business or home is near one and what environmental restrictions apply.
Form for Countryside Stewardship (CS) and Environmental Stewardship (ES) agreement holders to request a minor and temporary adjustment to the requirements for the options in their agreement.
Apply for a licence to carry out work that may affect great crested newts, find out if you need to pay and how to report your actions.
Register for a licence to monitor setts or evict and exclude badgers from setts or to destroy them for development or to prevent serious damage.
Apply for a licence to interfere with badger setts during development work and find out how to report your actions.
Apply for a licence to carry out work that may affect hazel dormice, find out if you need to pay and how to report your actions.
Apply for a licence to carry out work that may affect European protected species.
Apply for a licence to kill, take, disturb or possess a protected species for survey, research or conservation work.
Wildlife protection - find out if you need a licence to kill, disturb or move animals, birds or fish
Apply for a licence to shoot deer during the close season or at night, and report your actions.
Complete the template to help monitor and manage deer on your land for capital grants payments.
Apply for a licence to manage and control certain non-native (alien) species.
Use the correct form to explain why your application meets the licence criteria and that there’s no satisfactory alternative to your planned activity.
Calculate nutrient budgets for developments in the catchment of Solent.
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