We have had our first site registration under Richard Green’s Bat Low Impact Class Licence approved by Natural England in just seven days! The BLICL offers a reduced application process (via a ‘site registration form’ rather than a standard application form, reasoned…

Do you desire to produce professional looking phase 1 habitat maps or easily display bat survey transect data on maps or aerial photographs in reports? Our latest training course, on the 23rd February 2016, will show you how to create your own…

Richard recently attended a two day Natural England/CIEEM training course to become a Registered Consultant with a Bat Low Impact Class Licence (BLICL). After the course Richard had to undertake an on-line assessment that he passed with flying colours. The aims of this…

Richard recently attended a two day Natural England/CIEEM training course to become a Registered Consultant with a Bat Low Impact Class Licence (BLICL). After the course Richard had to undertake an on-line assessment that he passed with flying colours. The…

We have recently taken delivery of a FLIR E6 thermal imaging camera and are currently trialling it for use in bat surveys, both in roosts and for emergence surveys. Here are some images of lesser horseshoe bats roosting and in…

The Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management have recently produced guidelines for homeowners on what to expect from a bat survey. Click Here for more information.

New research carried out by scientists from the University of Exeter and Bat Conservation Ireland, has discredited the popular belief that street lighting is attractive to common bats. The previous assumption was that bats could feed on the insects that…

Bacteria found naturally on some bats may prove useful in controlling the deadly fungal disease known as white-nose syndrome, which has devastated bat populations throughout eastern North America and continues to spread across the continent. Scientists isolated bacteria that strongly inhibited the growth of…

Richard Green Ecology, in collaboration with Marquis and Lord, are running a training course on the analysis of bat data using the open source software R and RStudio®. The course is for anyone who may find themselves needing to deal…

Last week Natural England released updated Standing Advice for European Protected Species. Standing Advice was originally introduced to replace some of the individual comments that Natural England provided to local authorities when assessing planning applications that could affect protected species.