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Apply for a licence for dealing with protected species and invasive non-native species.

The Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 gives legal protection to all wild plants. Plants and fungi on Schedule 8 have more protection. Offences include sale, picking, uprooting and destroying. We grant licences for specific purposes.

Use our heritage and nature conservation screening report service

Find out about how our seas and their habitats and species are protected

Find out about fish that are protected by the law.

This important plan of action describes the actions required if we are to restore healthy and more sustainable populations of our iconic Welsh salmon and sea trout

It is against the law to pick, collect, cut, uproot or destroy a European Protected Species (EPS) of plant wherever it grows. Natural Resources Wales (NRW) grants licences so you can work within the law.

Whales, dolphins, porpoises, turtles and sturgeon are European Protected Species (EPS). It is against the law to damage their breeding sites / resting places, or deliberately to capture, kill, injure or disturb an EPS without a licence.

Find out which areas of land and seas around Wales have been identified of European and international importance.

All wild birds, their nests and their eggs are protected under Section 1 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981

Assessing the impacts of fishing activities on Marine Protected Areas

These specific terms of reference are to be read in tandem with the generic terms of reference for all Natural Resources Wales’ (NRW) committees.

Our service level agreements for determining certain species licence applications are changing from the 1 April 2021.