This project demonstrates that bats can usually be accommodated in development projects relatively easily and at low cost. Bats and humans can co-exist!
Case Study | Bat Mitigation
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Bats, Biodiversity, Protected Species
Date posted: 1 December 2019
Migratory hoverflies provide key ecosystem services
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Biodiversity, Ecological Indicators, Ecosystem Services, Hoverflies, Invertebrates
Date posted: 8 July 2019
Migratory hoverflies are important pollinators of wildflowers. They contribute to maintaining high genetic diversity within wildflower populations through the transfer of pollen across long distances.
World Curlew Day | 21 April 2019
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Biodiversity, Birds, Conservation
Date posted: 21 April 2019
World Curlew Day (April 21) aims to raise awareness of the plight of curlews worldwide and has found support from numerous environmental agencies. Events will be taking place across the UK and throughout the world, the proceeds going towards important local and national curlew conservation and monitoring projects aiming to restore endangered curlew species to a more favourable conservations status.
Planting for winter-active invertebrates
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Biodiversity, Conservation, Ecosystem Services, Invertebrates, Trees, Urban Ecosystems
Date posted: 12 December 2018
Many planting schemes with an ecological input specify that native species should be used, and for very good reasons too. There is a problem with native planting, however, in that indigenous trees and shrubs in the UK are limited in number and very few of them provide a food resource for invertebrates during the winter months. Climate amelioration means that more invertebrates are going to be active during winter months, especially in towns and cities. But will there be enough food to sustain them?
The revised NPPF | Sustainable development and conserving the natural environment
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Biodiversity, Development, Ecology, Planning Policy
Date posted: 1 September 2018
The revised National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) was published in July 2018. Originally published in 2012, this document sets out the Government’s planning policies for England and how these are expected to be applied.
Testing the new AudioMoth detector
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Bats, Biodiversity, Birds, Migration, Research, Surveys and Assessment, Technology
Date posted: 7 July 2018
AudioMoth is a low-cost, full-spectrum acoustic logger. The firmware and software for the AudioMoth are open source (and programmable) and free to download. Over the coming weeks and months, Alar Ecology will be carrying out tests on the AudioMoth, to see how well it performs.