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"We offer advice, surveys and mitigation services in the ecology and conservation of amphibians and reptiles."
Portfolio


Client: Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
www.rspb.org.uk
  • 2010 - Reptile habitat assessment, management advice and recommendations - West Canvey Marshes, Canvey Island, Essex.
 
Client: Bournemouth Borough Council
www.bournemouth.gov.uk
  • 2010 - Annual monitoring of sand lizards, adders, and general reptile populations. Conservation status assessments, habitat management advice - Turbary Common and Kinson Common, Bournemouth, Dorset.
  • 2008 - Reptile survey and mitigation advice - Alum Chine 'super-huts', Bournemouth, Dorset
 
Client: W Stirland Ltd
  • 2010 - Reptile mitigation strategies for school and housing developments, submissions to local planning authority (Chichester District Council). Capture and translocation of slow-worms from Elizabethan walled garden within school grounds at Seaford College, East Lavington/Duncton, West Sussex.
 
Client: Herpetologic Ltd
www.herpetologic.co.uk
  • 2008 - Reptile translocation - Weymouth Relief Road/2012 Olympics Park & Ride Scheme (on behalf of RPS Group for Dorset County Council)
  • 2008 - Reptile survey and assessment - Membury, Wiltshire
  • 2008 - Great crested newt survey - Peacehaven, East Sussex
 
Client: Andrews Ecology
www.awaecology.co.uk
  • 2010 - Capture and translocation of smooth snakes (and other reptiles) under EPS licence - Burnt Hill, Ringwood Forest, Hampshire (on behalf of Tarmac Ltd)
  • 2008-2010 - Reptile translocations and mitigation advice - Headon, Hemerdon & Smallhanger Quarries, Cornwood near Ivybridge, Devon (on behalf of China clay quarry operator)
  • 2009 - Reptile survey, mitigation advice, and EPS licence preparation - Burnt Hill, Ringwood Forest, Hampshire (on behalf of Tarmac Ltd)
  • 2008-2009 - Great crested newt survey and mitigation advice - Kingsley, Alton, Hampshire (on behalf of Tarmac Ltd)
  • 2008-2009 - Amphibian surveys and mitigation advice - Plumley & Blue Haze, Somerley Estate, Ringwood Forest, Hampshire (on behalf of Tarmac Ltd)
  • 2008 - Great crested newt survey and advice - Thatcham, Berkshire (on behalf of Tarmac Ltd)
 
Client: Dorset County Council
www.dorsetforyou.com
  • 2009-2010 - Reptile capture and translocation from 17km of road verges using 11,000 artificial refugia. Over 2,000 reptiles moved, including sand lizards and smooth snakes under EPS licence. Creation of a new sand lizard population. Management advice and monitoring of receptor sites at Merritown Heath, Chapel Lane and Ringwood Forest - A338 Spur Road major maintenance works, Ashley Heath Junction to Blackwater Junction, Dorset.
  • 2009 - Reptile survey along 21km of road verges. Preparation of Natural England EPS licence, mitigation advice, receptor site identification, landowner negotiations - A338 Spur Road major maintenance works, Ashley Heath Junction to Cooper Dean Roundabout, Dorset.
 
Client: Ward Ecology
www.awaecology.co.uk
  • 2008 - Great crested newt survey and mitigation advice - Bletchingley, Redhill, Surrey (on behalf of sand and gravel quarry operator)
  • 2008 - Reptile survey and mitigation advice. Great crested newt mitigation advice - Moneystone Quarry, Oakamoor, Staffordshire (on behalf of sand and gravel quarry operator)
  • 2008 - Reptile and amphibian surveys for proposed housing development - former BOCM research station, Stoke Mandeville, Buckinghamshire (on behalf of Landlink plc)
 
Client: Poole High School
www.poolehigh.poole.sch.uk
  • 2010 - Reptile survey of school grounds, advice on improving habitats and encouraging reptiles and amphibians on school grounds, Poole, Dorset
 
Client: Arcus Renewable Energy Consulting
www.arcusrenewables.co.uk
  • 2010 - Reptile survey and mitigation advice - Proposed windfarm development on grouse moorland, North Yorkshire.
 
Client: Amphibian & Reptile Conservation Trust
www.herpconstrust.org.uk
  • 2007-2010 - Annual survey of NARRS 1km squares, Dorset
  • 2006-2010 - Annual monitoring of Make the Adder Count sites, Dorset
  • 2009 - Sand lizard monitoring - Reintroduction site, Sandwich Bay, Kent
 
Client: URS Corporation Ltd
www.urscorp.com
  • 2008-2010 - Sand lizard population monitoring - Avon Common Sand & Gravel Quarry, Christchurch, Dorset (for Tarmac Ltd).
  • 2008 - Capture and translocation of sand lizards (and other reptiles) under licence. Mitigation advice and assistance in preparation of EPS licence - Avon Common Sand & Gravel Quarry, Christchurch, Dorset (for Tarmac Ltd).
 
Client: Private individuals
  • 2009-2010 - Beach chalet extension, Canford Cliffs - assessment of potential impact on sand lizards, report to planning authority, mitigation advice, watching brief.
  • 2010 - Private garden, Poole - reptile identification, habitat assessment, advice, reassurance.
  • 2010 - Housing development, Poole - urgent habitat assessment for amphibians and reptiles, reptile survey, report to planning authority enforcement officer, mitigation advice.
  • 2010 - Housing development, Verwood - mitigation advice, preparation and submission of licence application.
 
Client: CSa Environmental
www.csaenvironmental.co.uk
  • 2009 - Training in European-protected reptile ecology, survey and mitigation.
 
Client: University of Oxford Institute of Archaeology
www.arch.ox.ac.uk
  • 2000-2009 - Palaeontological study and palaeoecological research on Late Pleistocence/Upper Palaeolithic subfossil amphibian and reptile assemblages. Contributions to monograph - Gorham's Cave and Vanguard Cave, Gibraltar Caves Project.
 
Client: Gibraltar Museum
www.gib.gi/museum
  • 2002-2009 - Research into subfossil herpetofaunal remains from Late Pleistocence/Upper Palaeolithic cave deposits. Contributions to monograph - Gorham's Cave, Gibraltar.
 
Client: Groundwork London
www.groundwork-london.org.uk
  • 2007 - Common lizard survey and habitat management advice - Wormwood Scrubs, West London

 
Client: The Herpetological Conservation Trust
www.arc-trust.org
  • 2008 - Assistance with delivery of professional training courses in Dorset.
  • 2008 - Delivery of NARRS reptile and amphibian survey training courses in Nottinghamshire and Isle of Skye.
 


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