Natural England has launched new guidelines on survey and site mitigation for reptiles, producing a single set of standards for good practice in reptile ecology work. It is aimed at developers, local authorities and consultants.

All species of reptile are now on the UK Biodiversity Action Plan (BAP) priority list, so their conservation has to be taken into account during the planning process, whenever a site supports populations of grass snake, slow worm, common lizard or other reptiles.

Our consultant ecologist Kelly Clark writes;

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Natural England has released new mitigation guidelines for reptiles. The pdf is available for download here TIN102.

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Today's themes were Cumulative effects, Tools and technology, Mitigation and compensation and Future challenges.

Again, a huge amount of interesting and relevant information which will immediately be put into practice. Our approach to ecology for wind farm developments is going to get a right good shake up next week! I'm not going to go through all the good stuff about measuring and adjusting for impact, and associated stats - that's not for this forum, I am going to take a philosophical direction tonight.

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After 7 days on site, I thought it was time to give you an insight into what has happened so far. Legacy habitat have put in the fence along the phase1 receptor site (although due to rubble could not follow the embankment to the north). We then carried out a destructive search of all the rubble/debris left at the north of the site. more