Ecology Services Ltd. is a multi-disciplinary practice with a broad base of skills. We provide a complete range of services associated with protected species and habitat management; including surveys and mitigation projects where required, botanical surveys; Phase 1 & 2 habitat surveys and National Vegetation Classification (NVC), environmental impact assessments, woodland/grassland habitat management, creation, restoration and the implementation of aftercare.

Ecology Services Ltd. surveys, designs and implements its projects. Ecology Services staff are multi-disciplinary environmental professionals, with qualifications and a wide experience of town planning, landscape management, ecology and environmental legislation. Therefore we are able to provide our clients with a comprehensive approach to environmental services.

Ecology Services Ltd. has particular expertise in herpetile ecology and has strong links with the British Herpetological Society. All survey and mitigation works strictly follow the best practice guidelines set by English Nature, in the Great crested newt mitigation guidelines, working today for nature tomorrow (2001). Staff hold great crested newt survey licences issued by English Nature, for all counties in England. We also hold great crested newt mitigation licences issued by the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA).

We have experience of projects on habitat management and environmental impact assessments, involving vegetation surveys, amphibians, water voles, bats, owls, reptiles, crayfish and badgers.

Previous work has included species protection and habitat creation, enhancement, and restoration, in accordance with planning conditions. We are also experienced in the planning, design, implementation and management of urban parks, country parks and woodlands. Wetland management including: marshes, reed-beds, open lakes, rivers, ponds, heath-land, short grassland, lowland meadows and ancient forests, estuarine/wetland bird surveys.

Our largest project to date is the great crested newt mitigation project and subsequent monitoring, for BAE Systems.

Commissions recently undertaken by Ecology Services Ltd. include; BAE Systems, Wigan Council, Edmund Nuttall Ltd, Tetrosyl, George Wimpey Manchester, Fairclough Homes Ltd, Sub-contractual surveys for Penny Anderson Associates Ltd. See case studies for brief details of recent contracts.

If specialist surveyors are required, accredited agents will be employed where possible e.g. hydrologists, geologists and species specialists. Ecology Services Ltd. employs sub-contractors of the highest standard and reputation.