BATS

• Internal/ external building and structure inspections, including the use of endoscopes.

• Emergence/ re-entry surveys using infrared recording equipment.

• Transect surveys.

• Monitoring of landscape-scale activity using BATPODS (static pairs of detectors to monitor directional movement of bats along hedgerows etc. and count bat numbers accross the detectors). See Inovations

• Ground-based inspection of trees.

• Preparing and supervising both non-licensed and licensed method statements for bat mitigation works.

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GREAT CRESTED NEWTS

• Scoping for threats to GCNs.

• Habitat Suitability Index assessment.

• Bottle trapping - including using non-invasive floating traps and baited traps.

• Torch searching.

• Egg searching.

• Late season netting and bottle trapping.

• eDNA sampling.

• Terrestrial habitat surveys.

• Non-licensed Method Statements (NLMS) to allow work to proceed if there are judged to be no offences committed.

• Mitigation licences to allow work to proceed under Natural England European Protected Species Licensing (EPSL).

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INVASIVE WEEDS

• Surveys for notifyable and other injurious weeds.

• Japanese Knotweed Fallopia japonica

• Indian (Himalayan) Balsam Impatiens glandulifera.

• Australian Swamp Stonecrop Crassula helmsii (More info ... )

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SMALL MAMMALS

• Live trapping od small mammals. Population density estimates and monitoring using 'Longworth traps'

• Hiring of Longworth traps for your projects. Please contact us to discuss

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