Survey Experience: Reptiles

• 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 NPA.