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Environmental management – form
Bats: survey class licence for volunteer bat
roost visitors (level 1)
From:
Natural England and Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
First published:
6 October 2014
Last updated:
1 January 2016, see all updates
Part of:
Bat licences, Class licences for wildlife management, Wildlife and habitat conservation
and Environmental management
Applies to:
England
Licence to survey bats for conservation purposes (licence CL15).
Documents
Bats: survey licence for volunteer bat roost visitors (level 1)
(CL15)
PDF, 233KB, 6 pages
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Volunteer bat roost visitor expression of interest form
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Detail
This licence allows Natural England registered volunteer bat roost visitors (or trainees registered
with Natural England accompanying them) to:
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disturb bats
take bats
use artificial light like a torch
use endoscopes
use hand nets
use static hand-held nets
This licence only allows you to carry out activities for the Natural England Bat Advisory
Service.
You need a level 2 licence to train volunteer bat roost visitors.
Surveys must be for the conservation of bats.
Activities not covered
This licence doesn’t cover you for any other volunteering activities and doesn’t allow you to
survey:
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for science, education or research
for development
hibernation sites
for the national bat monitoring programme
Register with Natural England
This is a class licence – you don’t need to apply for it but you must:
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register as a Natural England volunteer using the volunteer bat roost visitor expression of
interest form (you must do this first)
register with Natural England using the disturb or take bats application form (A34)
Report action taken
You must return a report of action taken under a volunteer bat roost visitor class licence form
(LR-CL15-16) no later than 30 April each year, even if you’ve taken no action.
If you fail to do this, you’re no longer registered to act under the licence and cannot carry out
roost visits for the Natural England Bat Advice Service.
This form is also used to renew your registration.
Published:
6 October 2014
Updated:
1 January 2016
+ full page history
1 January 2016 12:00am
Replaced licence with new version issued 1 January 2016.
1 January 2015 12:00am
new version of CL15 valid from 1 January to 31 December 2015.
6 October 2014 4:53pm
First published.
From:
Natural England
Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
Part of:
Bat licences
Class licences for wildlife management
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