Calumma Ecological Services has recently commissioned the services of Jen Drage to update our website and ensure that it is fully standards compliant. Jen has worked her magic to ensure that any stories posted to the blog that are relevant...

The new GCN licence application forms (including the eagerly awaited Mitigation Method Statement spreadsheet) are all now available for download from the Natural England website. There are several items of interest. As county recorder for reptiles and amphibians, one item...

Updates to the blog are coming along a little slower than expected. In the meantime there has been some good news on the UK Biodiversity Action Plan front. The BBC has published a news item giving some of the background....

English Nature have recently published a review of how local authorities deal with protected species in the planning system. It makes very interesting reading. "Development control, local authorities and protected species" - can be viewed here. In particular I would...