Proposals to build an energy centre to extract and distribute heat from the River Tyne required a range of ecological assessments and a Biodiversity Net Gain design.
Category Archives: Restoring Habitats
Dormouse Week 2021
Dormice are a UK protected species, but habitat loss continues to threaten remaining populations. Mitigation measures are required when developing in areas where dormice live.
Harvest Mouse Successes
Comparisons with historical records suggest that harvest-mouse habitat might have shrunk by about 20%. Harvest mice are “vulnerable” in Wales, but the situation is even bleaker in Scotland.
Wales Declares Nature Emergency
Wales’ Strategy for Nature sets out an ambition ‘to reverse the decline in biodiversity, for its intrinsic value, and to ensure lasting benefits to society’,
Can You Help to Revive Our World?
A Red Kite sculpture outside Cardiff Castle reminds us all that we can take positive action can make a huge difference to the natural world around us.
Help for Butterflies
Ecological support throughout development projects can help reverse the contribution made by loss of habitat to the catastrophic reductions in butterfly populations over the past 40 years.
Renewable Energy and Wild Flower Meadows
The recreation of the sorts of meadows which our parents and grand-parents remember so fondly is often not an easy task, because wild flowers and grasses generally prefer nutrient-poor soils.
1000th Dormouse Released
Extinct in 17 of its historical counties and rare in many others, Hazel dormouse populations are being boosted by a significant reintroduction programme.
World Environment Day
We can grow trees, green our cities, re-wild our gardens, change our diets and clean up rivers and coasts. We are the generation that can make peace with nature.
Solar Power for Ponthir Water Treatment
The proposed installation of solar panels required a combination of surveys and recommendations to enable the project aims to be achieved whilst protecting and enhancing the habitats for some species.
JP Ecological Services 