SERVICES

Absolute Ecology is a new and dynamic company who can provide a professional service ever being a sub contractor or contractor on hourly or day rate competitive basis.

Professional Member of Institute Ecology and Environmental Management 

So what can we do:

  • Scoping studies
  • Ecological Impact Assessment
  • Appropriate Assessment
  • Habitat creation, management plans and strategies
  • Ecological monitoring programs
  • Ecological mitigation strategies
  • Watching briefs
  • Protected species – surveys and mitigation (licenses and permits held)
  • Terrestrial and wetland ecology including Phase 1 extended
  • Data analysis
  • Nature conservation planning policy and legislation
  • Expert witness
  • Integrating ecology with other disciplines
  • Liaising with nature conservation bodies

Species survey types

Mammals: badger, bats (all species), water vole, otter, dormouse.

Amphibians and reptiles: great crested newt, smooth newt, palmate newt, grass snake, adder, smooth snake, slow worm, common lizard, sand lizard.

Birds: all breeding and over wintering species including barn owl.

Botanical: all species and communities associated with woodland, grassland, heathland.

Invertebrates: all species and groups including white clawed crayfish.
Water Voles received increased protection

It will now be against the law to intentionally kill a water vole or to intentionally, or recklessly, damage or disturb the places they use for shelter or protection, meaning that their future is a safer one.

Threatened by habitat loss and predation by American mink, the water vole is the UK's fastest declining native mammal. In 1990 there were seven million water voles in the UK. By 1998 numbers had crashed to less than a million and they have since continued to fall. Previous legal protection for water voles, introduced in 1998, extended only to the animal's habitat, not to the animal itself. This has proved a source of confusion, resulting in the loss of important water vole colonies.

The full protection will come into force on 6 April 2008 under section 9(1) of the Wildlife and Countryside Act.

Special Points of Interest

• Carry out any surveys required as early in the planning process as possible to save time and delays and money.

• November to April Season is badger surveys

• March to June is Great Crested Newt survey season and scoping assessments can be all year round.

• Bat activity Survey season May to September/October.
• Bat hibernation and general scoping assessments is November to March/April

Don't forget Phase 1 Habitat Surveys can be all year round.

 



 
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