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Below are some examples of projects
that Sheaf Ecology staff members have worked on recently
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Artificial bat hibernacula installation under
Natural England licensing
As part of the
implementation of a cycleway in South Yorkshire, a disused railway cutting had
to be partial re-graded to allow disability access. Numerous potential bat
roosts were to be lost during this operation. A development licence for bats
was obtained and a programme of exclusion was conducted to ensure no bats were
harmed in later construction activites. In order to compensate for the loss of
these potential roosts a custom built artificial bat hibernacula was installed
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Habitat creation works for great crested newt
and water vole under Natural England licensing
In order for a road widening scheme to proceed in South
Yorkshire, Natural England required the creation of an Ecological Compensation
Area to provide habitat for both great crested newts and water voles that were
found in numerous ponds and ditches around the development area. Sheaf Ecology
staff members (and associates) designed the scheme and provided ecological
clerk of works supervision to create the ponds, ditches and wetlands including
seed mixes, coir matting for rapid establishment of aquatic plants and
tree-planting. |
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Great crested newt - pitfall trapping
Prior to the creation of the Ecological Compensation Area work
described above, the area had to cleared of any great crested newts before any
habitat creation works could begin. Great crested newt licensed Sheaf Ecology
staff (and associates) were required under Natural England licensing to check
several hundred pitfall traps on a daily basis for a number of weeks to ensure
no wildlife would be harmed once the works began.
The photograph shows a great crested newt found from one of the
pitfall traps on the daily checks.
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Japanese knotweed
treatment, removal and installation of root-barrier
In order to proceed with a development, Japanese knotweed which
was growing within close proximity of the footprint of the building required
removal. This was a challenging site as it was next to the River Thames and
flooded on a regular basis.The Japanese knotweed was carefully removed using an
ecological clerk of works supervision methodology which enabled the developer
to massively reduce the overall volume of Japanese knotweed contaminated spoil
from the site. Finally in order to protect the site from Japanese knotweed that
was growing within the adjoining hedge, a root-barrier was installed along the
length of the site. |
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Ancient woodland surveys with database creation and GIS
mapping
On a project for Natural England in the
Lake District, Sheaf Ecology staff members complied a database of ancient
woodlands in and around the Bassenthwaite area. The project involved working
with local groups to use previously known ancient woodland information combined
with desk-based study and fresh field work to map previously unknown ancient
woodland strips. A database was created for the
project which allowed the data-sets to be exported into GIS software for visual
mapping and landscape analysis.
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ANABAT remote bat survey recording
As part of a wide range of ecological surveys for proposed
development work in Derbyshire which would require the removal of a woodland
block, Sheaf Ecology staff members conducted numerous bat surveys in and around
the woodland to determine the level of use by bats. In order to acquire a
larger data-set of bat activity, an Anabat bat detector was placed high in the
canopy of the trees by Sheaf Ecology certified tree-climbers. This allowed data
to be recorded over a period of several days without the need or cost of bat
surveyors on-site.
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