Wild Bird General Licence Restriction Zone

• Published by: Natural England
• Last updated: 10 May 2024
• Topic: Not added
• Licence: Other Licence ; View licence information

Summary

Special Areas of Conservation where trapping is not permitted under certain General Licences for wild birds. Relevant licences state whether this exclusion applies. In 2019, changes are being introduced to how you can use some of the General Licences for managing problems caused by certain wild birds. Licensing is an important tool for protecting wildlife whilst allowing necessary activities to take place. The Wild Bird General Licence Restriction Zone indicates areas where trapping cannot be taken under certain general licences on Special Areas of Conservation. You can find out if this restriction applies to a specific general licence by referring to the conditions of the licence. If you need to carry out any licensable actions on land covered by this restriction then you will need to apply to Natural England for a separate licence. General licences are not a consent for the purposes of Part 2 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 (as amended) in respect to SSSIs so it is your responsibility to get consent or assent if required before a licence can be used on any SSSI irrespective of whether it is covered by this restriction. The data are intended for use only as a guide to help identify sites affected by a condition in a 2019 Wild Bird General Licence from Natural England and should not be relied on to indicate details of protected sites (this includes their designation, extent or features). The data are intended to be used in conjunction with the licence advice and other relevant information. Data currently only available on Defra MAGIC Web Mapping application. Attribution statement: © Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right [year].

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Link to the data	Format	File added	Data preview
Wildlife licences: when you need to apply	N/A	10 May 2024	Not available
MAGIC Web Mapping Application	N/A	10 May 2024	Not available

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• Added to data.gov.uk: 2024-05-08
• Access contraints: The data are intended for use only as a guide to help identify sites affected by a condition in a 2019 Wild Bird General Licence from Natural England and should not be relied on to indicate details of protected sites (this includes their designation, extent or features). The data are intended to be used in conjunction with the licence advice and other relevant information. There are no public access constraints to this data. Use of this data is subject to the licence identified.
• Harvest GUID: 1b00bc4b-300e-4e9c-8ecc-d0952eeb4bc3
• Extent: Latitude: 55.81° to 49.86°
• Extent: Longitude: -7.05° to 2.07°
• Spatial reference system: http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/27700
• Dataset reference date: 2019-04-25 (creation)
• Dataset reference date: 2019-04-26 (publication)
• Frequency of update: unknown
• Responsible party: Natural England (pointOfContact)
• ISO 19139 resource type: dataset
• Metadata language: eng
• Source Metadata: XML
• Source Metadata: HTML

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