Policy paper

Gamebirds: decision to issue the GL45 gamebird general licence for 2024 to 2025

How Defra arrived at its decision to issue the GL45 gamebird general licence, valid from 31 May 2024 to 1 February 2025.

From:
Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
Published
12 April 2024

Applies to England

Documents

Defra’s 2024 Habitats Regulations Assessment (HRA) and decision to issue general licence GL45

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Natural England's statutory advice to Defra – 14 March 2024

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Details

Defra’s GL45 gamebird general licence allows an authorised person to release common pheasants or red-legged partridges on specified special protection areas (SPAs) or within their 500-metre buffer zones. 

These documents explain how Defra considered the evidence and came to the decision to issue the GL45 general licence for 2024 to 2025.

Published 12 April 2024