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Essex – The only way is Pond!!

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Having recently been appointed as a Habitat Delivery Body by Natural England, Froglife Ecological Services (F.E.S) has been busy creating and restoring ponds across the county of Essex as part of the District Level Licencing scheme. 

District level licensing aims to increase the number of great crested newts by providing new or better habitats in targeted areas to benefit their wider population. F.E.S has successfully created and restored 36 ponds for great crested newts over the last few months in strategically chosen locations to enable populations to flourish and will be returning to these ponds to check their progress over the coming years.

If you are a landowner in Essex and are interested in finding out about the scheme and the potential for the creation and/or the restoration of ponds then please contact James McAdie via email here.

 

 

 

Training courses 2020

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Froglife Ecological Services are offering a range of courses in 2020. We will now be delivering our Great Crested Newt Survey: Working Towards a Licence course at a range of locations including: London, Peterborough, York and Gartcosh in Scotland. Participants will take part in an indoor workshop, followed by a fieldwork session to practice night torching, egg searching and bottle trapping. Froglife are able to issue participants with a reference to support an application for a great crested newt survey licence. In addition, we are offering courses in reptile surveying and amphibian habitat management. Click here to see the training brochure. For further information, visit: fles.org.uk

 

 

 

Froglife Training 2019

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Froglife Ecological Services training programme for 2019 has been released and can be viewed here.

Our expertise in amphibians and reptiles, conservation projects and habitat management enables us to deliver a range of courses to a wide variety of audiences at all levels of experience.

Our current courses include:

  • Introduction to Amphibians
  • Great Crested Newt Survey: Working Towards a Licence
  • Introduction to Reptiles
  • Reptile Ecology and Survey Techniques
  • Habitat Creation, Restoration and Enhancement for Amphibians

Our courses are designed to offer something for everyone, from complete beginner to more experienced naturalist or Environmental professional.

Most of our courses involve an element of field work or site visits. Largely the courses run on a single day, however our Great Crested Newt: Working Towards a Licence course does require a site visit the following morning.

In addition to our standard courses we are able to offer bespoke training courses to cater to groups such as NGOs, Charities, Government Departments, volunteer groups, ‘Friends of’ groups and Councils.

Courses are run from our Peterborough location, however if you would like to book a bespoke training course we are able to run this from your group’s own venue so long as there are suitable facilities available. We also occasionally offer courses at our London and Scotland locations. We have excellent facilities and an in-depth knowledge of the sites used offering the opportunity to get a close up view of these species and explore their habitats.

Get in touch with our Science & Research Manager, Laurence Jarvis to discuss and book your training course laurence.jarvis@froglife.org

More information about the services provided by Froglife Ecological Services can be found at www.fles.org.uk

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