Survey Experience: Amphibians

• 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 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.