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Wildlife Management and Licensing: What we do not cover

The Wildlife Management & Licensing Service is responsible for providing a wide range of help, advice and licensing but we do not:

  • Provide advice and licences outside of England:

    • for Wales contact - Welsh Assembly Government, Unit 9 Cefnllan Science Park, Aberystwyth, SY23 3AH, Tel no 01970 610202
    • for Scotland contact - Environment and Rural Affairs Department (ERAD), PEP2 Division, Branch 2 - Agricultural Pollution, Pesticides and Pest Control, Pentland House, 47 Robbs Loan, EDINBURGH, EH14 1TY, Tel: 0131 244 6360
    • for Northern Ireland contact Environment & Heritage Service, 35 Castle Street, Belfast, BT 1 1GU, Tel 02890 546558

  • Carry out the practical work required under any licence, this is the responsibility of licensees and any staff or consultants that they employ. In some cases NGO's such as the Badger Trust or Bat Conservation Trust may be able to assist.

  • Provide a 'pest control' service - please contact your Local Environmental Health Department or individual contractors through telephone directories/ Yellow pages.

  • Licence captive birds or deal with import or export of wildlife - for CITIES and bird registration (Schedule 4 birds only PDF [224 kB]) please contact - The wildlife Licensing & Registration service, Animal Health, Zone 1/17, Temple Quay House, 2 The Square, Temple Quay, Bristol, BS1 6EB. E-mail: wildlife.licensing@animalhealth.gsi.gov.uk

  • Issue game licences - these are no longer required in England and Wales since 1 August 2007 see Changes to game licencing for taking or selling game and venison for further information

  • Issue zoo licences - these are dealt with by your local authority. For more information see The Zoo Licensing Act 1981.

  • Identify species from specimens or photographs - please contact your local Natural History Museum

  • Deal with disease in trees, shrubs and plants - for incidence of disease in recently imported plant please contact Defra Plant Health.

  • Assist with reports of poisonous invertebrates (scorpions, spiders etc) - please contact your local Environmental Health Department.


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