Exotic Dangerous and Wild Animals Licences

Persons wishing to keep a dangerous wild animal on their premises must make an application for a licence from the Council if the animal is included in the schedule of dangerous wild animals shown below. For further information please contact us on 01386 565016 or email licensing@wychavon.gov.uk

Marsupials

• The Tasmanian Devil;
• Grey kangaroos, the euro, the wallaroo and the red kangaroo.

Primates

• Tamarins;
• New-world monkeys (including capuchin, howler, saki, spider, squirrel, titi, uakari and woolly monkeys and the night monkey [otherwise known as the douroucouli]);
• Old-world monkeys (including baboons, the drill, colobus monkeys, the gelada, guenons, langurs, leaf monkeys, macaques, the mandrill, mangabeys, the patas and proboscis monkeys and the talapoin);
• Leaping lemurs (including the indri, sifakas and the woolly lemur);
• Large lemurs (the broad-nosed gentle lemur and the grey gentle lemur are excepted);
• Anthropoid apes (including chimpanzees, gibbons, the gorilla and the orang-utan).

Edentates

• Sloths;
• The giant armadillo;
• The giant anteater.

Rodents

• The North American porcupine;
• The capybara;
• Crested porcupines.

Carnivores

• The giant panda and the red panda;
• Jackals, wild dogs, wolves and the coyote (foxes, the raccoon-dog and the domestic dog are excepted);
• The bobcat, caracal, cheetah, jaguar, lion, lynx, ocelot, puma, serval, tiger and all other cats (the domestic cat is excepted);
• Hyaenas (except the aardwolf);
• Badgers (except the Eurasian Badger), otters (except the European otter), and the tayra, wolverine, fisher and ratel (otherwise known as the honey badger);
• Cacomistles, raccoons, coatis, olingos, the little coatimundi and the kinkajou
• Bears.

Pinnipedes

• The walrus, eared seals, sealions and earless seals (the common and grey seals are excepted).

Elephants

• Elephants.

Odd-toed Ungulates

• Asses, horses and zebras (the donkey, domestic horse and domestic hybrids are excepted);
• Rhinoceroses;
• Tapirs.
• Hyraxes
• Tree and rock hyraxes (otherwise known as dassies).
• Aardvark
• The aardvark.

Even-toed Ungulates

• The pronghorn;
• Antelopes, bison, buffalo, cattle, gazelles, goats and sheep (domestic cattle, goats and sheep are excepted);
• Camels, the guanaco and the vicugna (the domestic llama and alpaca are excepted);
• The moose or elk and the caribou or reindeer (the domestic reindeer is excepted);
• The giraffe and the okapi;
• The hippopotamus and the pygmy hippopotamus;
• Old-world pigs (including the wild boar and the wart hog), (the domestic pig is excepted);
• New-world pigs (otherwise known as peccaries);
• Mammalian hybrids with a parent (or parents) of a specified kind.

Birds

• Cassowaries;
• The emu;
• The ostrich.

Reptiles

• Alligators and caimans;
• Crocodiles and the false gharial;
• The gharial (otherwise known as the gavial);
• Mole vipers and certain rear-fanged venomous snakes (including the moila and montpellier snakes, sand snakes, twig snakes, the mangrove [otherwise known as the yellowringed catsnake], the boomslang, the red-necked keelback and the yamakagashi [otherwise known as the Japanese tiger-snake]);
• Certain front-fanged venomous snakes (including cobras, coral snakes, the desert black snake, kraits, mambas, sea snakes and all Australian poisonous snakes [including the death adders]);
• The gila monster and the (Mexican) beaded lizard;
• Certain front-fanged venomous snakes (including adders, the barba amarilla, the bushmaster, the copperhead, the fer-de-lance, moccasins, rattlesnakes and vipers).

Invertebrates

Spiders

• Wandering spiders;
• The Sydney funnel-web spider and its close relatives;
• The Brazilian wolf spider;
• Brown recluse spiders (otherwise known as violin spiders);
• The black widow spider (otherwise known as the redback spider) and its close known relatives.

Scorpions

• Buthid scorpions.

Anyone suffering nuisance due to noise, smells or similar because of a community premises should contact the Environmental Protection team to see if we can help - email environmental.health@wychavon.gov.uk or phone 01386 565015.

Grant of a licence doesn't mean that we've given planning permission: consent under town and country planning law may still be required. Please contact our Planning Services on 01386 565565.