Guidance: Clean air zones

Where you’ll find clean air zones, how to check if you’ll need to pay a charge and create a business account, and what support or exemptions are available.




Guidance: Badgers, beavers, otters, pine martens and stoats: how to trap humanely

Trappers of certain species of mammal must use traps that meet international humaneness standards.




Statutory guidance: Animal activities licensing: statutory guidance for local authorities

Guidance for local authority inspectors on licensing activities involving animals.




Policy paper: Gamebirds: decision to issue the gamebird general licence for 2023 to 2025

How Defra arrived at its decision to issue the gamebird general licence (GL43), valid from 31 May 2023 to 30 May 2025.




Statutory guidance: Gamebirds: licence to release common pheasants or red-legged partridges on certain European sites or within 500m of their boundary (GL43)

Owners or occupiers of land, or people authorised by them, can use this general licence to release common pheasants or red-legged partridges on certain European sites or within their 500m buffer zones.