Now, normally I’m not the sort of person to talk about the weather but what a month!! We’re certainly not the only ones that have had their fieldwork timetable squeezed somewhat! Apart from challenging conditions for fieldwork we’ve had a very busy month with meeting new clients, tendering for exciting new projects and looking for [...]
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Tim’s Blog – May
Thursday, May 17th, 2012Still time to book for this year’s UK Wildlife Legislation course
Thursday, April 26th, 2012Want a comprehensive introduction to legislation in the UK relating to wildlife and habitats in an intensive one day course? On May 17th Biocensus Training will be running the highly successful UK Wildlife Legislation course. We still have places available on what may be the only date for this course in 2012. To avoid missing out we [...]
Badger Ecology & Management – Last chance to book for 2012
Friday, April 13th, 2012On April 23rd, Biocensus Training will be running the highly successful Introduction to Badger Ecology and Management course. We still have some places available and it may be the last chance to participate in this course for 2012. To avoid missing out we recommend booking your place now! Officially endorsed by The Badger Trust, our course is [...]
Tim’s Blog – March 2012
Friday, April 13th, 2012Well it’s definitely spring!! Daffodils and magnolia in bloom, and swallows and chiffchaffs returning! It’s also quite a while since I last wrote one of these blogs. No excuses, but it’s been a very busy couple of months for us here. A combination of business as usual, loads of contact meetings, writing tenders and involvement [...]
Steph’s Bleets – Red Tape and Gold Plating
Thursday, January 26th, 2012I thought we might have heard the last of “gold-plating” in 2006, when the Davidson Review reported on “burdensome” regulation in the UK. However, last year the Government launched the “Red Tape Challenge”, listing (among other topics) all163 regulations that relate to biodiversity, wildlife management, landscape, countryside and recreation, and asking “should they be scrapped [...]
Tim’s Blog – January 2012
Wednesday, January 18th, 2012Happy New Year to one and all and I hope you all had a good Christmas! Mine was fairly typical, consisting of lots of eating, drinking, driving and sleeping. The drinking bit got off to a great start with the Biocensus annual ‘Subbies Christmas Drinks’. Every year we host a drinks event for our subbies [...]
Important changes to BREEAM schemes
Wednesday, December 14th, 2011As of July 1st this year the 2011 BREEAM New Construction Guidance replaced the 2008 guidance for commercial and public (non-housing) developments. Since then Biocensus have been applying the new guidance and have continued to provide our clients with all the information and advice they need to maximise their BREEAM credits. The new guidance for [...]
Tim’s Blog – November 2011
Tuesday, November 29th, 2011The Big News! So the big news this month is that on the1st of November we very happily announced that Dr Stephanie Wray joined the Biocensus board as our Non-Executive Chairman! To say I was chuffed about this is a massive understatement. Probably the two prevailing emotions were pride and excitement. Pride in the fact that we’ve grown Biocensus [...]
Dr Stephanie Wray Joins Biocensus as Chairman
Monday, November 7th, 2011We are very pleased to announce the appointment of Dr Stephanie Wray as our new Chairman. As the co-founder of the internationally recognised ecological consultancy, Cresswell Associates and as a former MD and Global Environment Leader at Hyder Consulting, Dr Wray brings with her a wealth of experience in the forefront of ecological and environmental consultancy [...]
Tim’s blog – October 2011
Tuesday, October 18th, 2011A nip in the air, redwings and fieldfares dropping in and dark mornings (even for non-birders) can only mean one thing; autumn. Traditionally this coincides with the slowing down of work for the ecologist. Fortunately (unfortunately?) that’s not the case here. Windfarm work does have the bonus of providing substantial amounts of work right through [...]
