Survey Experience: Reptiles

    Slow-worm
  • Wide range of reptile surveys including:
    • Sites for proposed housing developments.
    • Surveys for road and motorway corridors (e.g. East Kent Access/M25 etc.).
    • Railway corridors (e.g. sections of the CTRL channel tunnel line).
    • Pipeline corridor surveys (e.g. for Thames Water).
    • Surveys for Biodiversity-by-Design of a large area of land close to Waterlooville in relation to a plan incorporating a major housing development with innovative ecological designs.
    • Survey and management advice for Fountain Landscapes for Bushey Park (they carry out maintenance for the Royal Parks).
    • Slow-worm translocation to the British Wildlife Centre. 
    • 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.
  • Experience of translocation of all common reptile species: Adder, Common Lizard, Grass Snake and Slow-worm, including moving a large Slow-worm colony (2000+) from an old sewage farm to the London Wetland Centre.
  • Creation of reptile hibernacula and suitable long term reptile habitat.
  • Experience of handling Adders and an Adder translocation on the A74/Scottish borders for HCI.
  • NaturalEngland licence to survey for Sand Lizards.
  • Survey of the grounds of the Transport Research Laboratory (TRL), Crowthorne, for common reptile species and Sand Lizards on the behalf of Nicholas Pearson Associates.