North Yorkshire County Council Bridge Maintenance Programme- Ecology Surveys
Throughout 2015 AB Ecology ecologists Adele Antcliff and Rachel Blackham undertook a number of surveys for North Yorkshire Country Council on bridges scheduled for maintenance/repair works. The bridges were scattered throughout North Yorkshire including the Yorkshire Dales and the North York Moors. Surveys included bats, birds, white clawed-crayfish, water vole and otter. See link below for further details.
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Barlow Ash Mound, Drax Power Station-Ecological Monitoring 2015-2020
Adele Antcliff and Rachel Blackham have a long history of undertaking ecological surveys on Barlow Ash Mound, an area of land adjacent to, and owned by Drax Power Ltd. Numerous ecological monitoring surveys are undertaken on Barlow which inform the habitat management plan for the site. See link below for further details.
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Eye Landfill Great Crested Newt and Water Vole Translocation
Eye landfill is home to a population of great crested newts. To allow the development of the next landfill cell, upon which a medium population of newts was present, Biffa created an 11ha site adjacent to the development and transformed this once arable land into a ‘wildlife corridor’ managed specifically for great crested newts. The habitat creation began in 2008, with ponds, wet ditches, woodland, marshy grassland, bare banks and numerous hibernacula all been created within the ‘Wildlife Corridor’. In 2015 Adele Antcliff of AB Ecology obtained a licence from Natural England to allow the translocation of around 500 great crested newts from the proposed landfill area into the now well established Wildlife Corridor. See link below for further details.
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Eye Landfill Annual Ecological Monitoring 2015-2016
Biffa commissioned AB Ecology to undertake various ecological monitoring surveys at their site near Eye, Peterborough. The surveys were commissioned to inform the long-term management plan of the Wildlife Corridor and Lakes Area as approved by Peterborough City Council. These areas are managed specifically for their biodiversity value. See link below for further details.