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Survey Season Calendar with NotesOur Protected Species Survey Calendar is designed to help you plan ahead and integrate ecological requirements into your project programmes.
Tags: Ecological surveys, EPS, News, Protected species
So there are reptiles found on your development site. What can you do about it to allow your development to go ahead? What exactly does…
Tags: Careers, Design, Ecology, Protected species, Reptiles
As you may be aware, there’s a very limited period of time when you can survey for great crested newts. This, coupled with the fact…
Tags: Ecological surveys, Ecology, GCN, Protected species
We’re running a new course in Bat Mitigation Training, in Brighton on 28 February 2019. This one day programme will be delivered in collaboration with…
Tags: Bats, Ecology, EPS, Protected species
Our Senior Ecologist Becci was lucky enough on Saturday to catch a glimpse of a rare creature. The greater mouse-eared bat was declared extinct in…
Tags: Bats, Ecological surveys, Ecology, Protected species
By Judith Heron Last week I was lucky enough to go on a boat tour of the new Rampion Offshore Wind Farm, organised by the…
Tags: Ecological surveys, Ecology, EPS, News, Protected species, Renewables, Reptiles
When is the GCN Survey Season? The survey season for Great Crested Newts (GCN) is upon us already! It’s a tight window from mid-March to…
Tags: Ecological surveys, Ecology, GCN, News, Protected species
OK, so you know you have to have an ecological assessment carried out for your development, but when is the right time to have it…
Tags: Ecological surveys, Ecology, EPS, News, Protected species
With 2018 underway, now is a good time to consider which sites in your portfolio could require protected species surveys over the coming year. Surveys…
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(And we’re not talking about the vegetable!) 1. Preliminary Ecological Appraisals (PEAs) have become the standard phase 1 ecological survey required by local authorities to…
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There are 17 species of bat resident in the UK (18 if you count the greater mouse-eared bat) all of which are protected under the…
Tags: Bats, Ecological surveys, EPS, News, Protected species
Urban Edge Environmental works with developers, planners and architects throughout the UK. We understand that one of the key frustrations they face is when a…
Our Guide to Protected Species Surveys is packed with useful information about some of the more commonly encountered species, including identification, conservation status, survey methodologies…
At this time of year many consultants are sending their survey data to Local Records Centres and, with the Biological Records Centre celebrating its 50th…
Tags: Ecological surveys, Ecology, Environmental planning, News, Protected species
It is generally considered that winter is a quiet time for ecologists and, with many UK protected species going into hibernation, for the most part…
Tags: Birds, Ecological surveys, Ecology, News, Protected species
In March 2014 Defra published a study which evaluated the efficiency of using environmental DNA (eDNA) to detect populations of great crested newts (GCN) in…
Tags: Ecological surveys, Ecology, EPS, GCN, News, Protected species
One of the recommendations that crops up in many Phase 1 reports is the timing of works to avoid the nesting bird season. Birds can…
Tags: Birds, Ecological surveys, News, Protected species
In January I took part in a survey of hibernating bats at the Box Mines Site of Special Scientific Importance (SSSI) which also forms part…
Tags: Bats, Ecology, EPS, News, Protected species
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