Your experience matters! Help us to help you: General Licences for wild bird control survey
Natural England has commissioned the ICF, an independent research company, to carry out a survey of those who use the General Licences (namely you) for wild bird control in England. The purpose of the survey is to better understand how pest controllers perceive the three General Licences (GL40, GL41 and GL42) and what they actually mean in practice, the situations in which they are relied upon, and whether they remain practical and effective for those who use them.
The survey can be accessed via this link: https://horizons.confirmit.eu/
The survey takes around 15 minutes of your time and is anonymous to those completing it. Whether you use these licences regularly or only occasionally, sharing your experience is really important, the more members who take part in the survey, the better the evidence will reflect the real-world experiences of those who use the licences and as a result changes can be made to the process to make them more user friendly.
Following the survey, there will be opportunity, in 2027, for some of those who participated to discuss the licences in more detail with ICF should you wish too. Natural England expects ICF’s summary research report will be published in 2028.
Please note that the survey will close on Monday 1st February at 5pm.
