Survey Experience: Amphibians

    Bullfrog
  • Natural England Great Crested Newt licence for all English Counties and EPS licence holder for various mitigation projects in the past.
  • Wide range of Great Crested Newt surveys including:
    • Sites for proposed housing developments.
    • Numerous surveys for road and motorway corridors.
    • Railway corridors (e.g. sections of the CTRL channel tunnel line).
    • Pipeline corridors (e.g. for Thames Water and Southern Water).
    • Surveys of ’brown field’ sites (e.g. Battersea Power Station).
    • Landfill sites, chalk pits and quarries.
    • Sites for proposed reservoirs.
    • Management surveys of commons etc. for groups like the Surrey Wildlife Trust.
    • Management plans for locations like Bushy Park.
  • Site ecologist for HCI at Orton Brick pits (UK’s largest colony of Great Crested Newts).
  • Extensive Crested Newt survey of Clwyd and Glamorgan for HCI on the behalf of Countryside Commission for Wales.
  • Considerable experience of Great Crested Newt translocations including a major mitigation programme for Rural Arisings at Church Marshes in Kent.
  • Assisting with a SARG project to film Common Toads using an amphibian tunnel at a very active taod crossing.
  • Experience of habitat management for Great Crested Newts (and other amphibians).
  • Creation of hibernacula for Great Crested Newts.
  • Experience stickleback eradication (and use of rotonone) relating to key Great Crested Newt sites.
  • Work on surveying and eradicating the American Bullfrog in the UK for Froglife and Natural England.
  • Assistance with the Froglife London ’Pond Doctor’ service.
  • Survey work on green frogs in SE England for SARG (Surrey Amphibian and Reptile Group).
  • Studying Pool Frogs across Europe in relation to the Pool Frog Action plan and the status in the UK.
  • Amphibian recording workshop in Hungary/Ukraine.
  • Great Crested Newt survey of ponds in Richmond Park for the Royal Parks.