Urban gull licensing: a review of our organisational licence trial and plans for 2022
![A gull is stood on a rock with the ocean in the background.](https://naturalengland.blog.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/183/2020/11/14730210599_58936ea9d7_c-2-620x414.jpg)
The UK is home to a significant proportion of the world’s herring and lesser black-backed gull populations. Like all birds, they are protected by law and can only be controlled in England with a licence issued by Natural England. While …