Cornwall Environmental Consultants Limited
Ecological Survey and Assessment
Field surveys provide essential baseline information about a site for projects involving developments, changes in land use or land management decisions. Cornwall Environmental Consultants Ltd undertakes:
- Phase I and extended Phase I habitat surveys.
- Phase II surveys including National Vegetation Classification (NVC) surveys and mapping.
- Environment Agency River Corridor and River Habitat Surveys.
- Intertidal and marine surveys.
- Botanical surveys of both higher and lower plants.
- Surveys and monitoring of protected mammals such as badgers, bats, otters, water voles and dormice.
- Breeding bird surveys.
- Wintering bird surveys.
- Reptile and amphibian surveys.
- Invertebrate surveys.
- Fish surveys.
Example projects:
- Project: ecological survey and assessment of the proposed
routes of access tracks and cable ducts at Bears Down Wind Farm,
Padstow, Cornwall
Client: National Wind Power
Desk study, extended Phase I habitat survey and badger survey of the site.
- Project: ecological assessment of Okeltor metalliferous
mine site, Tamar Valley
Client: Cornwall County Council
Extended Phase I and botanical survey of a derelict mine site on the banks of the Tamar River. Specialist surveys were also undertaken for mosses and liverworts, mammals, reptiles and amphibians and birds.
- Project: badger survey of Dean Quarry, Lizard
Client: RMC aggregates
A bait-marking survey to establish territory boundaries of a resident badger group with a view to the construction of an artificial badger sett.
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Project: badger, bat and bryophyte surveys of United Mines landfill site in west Cornwall
Client: County Environmental Services (CES)
Survey of the shafts using the single rope technique to assess importance as bat roost sites prior to possible capping and infilling of the site with waste material. Surrounding mine spoil surveyed for bryophyte populations of conservation importance and surrounding land surveyed for presence of badger setts.
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Project: botanical survey of Chûn Downs, West Penwith
Client: Cornwall Wildlife Trust
Phase I habitat and Phase II botanical survey of a dry heathland site (Wildlife Trust reserve) using NVC methodology.
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Project: ecological surveys at Trevose Golf Course, St Merryn
Client: Trevose Golf and Country Club
Phase I habitat, river habitat and water vole surveys of terrestrial and aquatic habitats within the stream corridor in relation to the impacts of constructing two reservoirs on the golf course.
