News

Lotty will be giving her talk ‘Bats in or out of the Belfry’ to Cambridgeshire Bat Group on Saturday 25th April 2015. More information here: AGM 2015 Poster

Our director Robert Yaxley attended the University of East Anglia, School of Environmental Sciences careers event last month. It was well received, more information via CIEEM here.

Wild Frontier Ecology supports Dovestep 2, a 700 mile journey for Turtle Doves. dovestep2.wordpress.com. You can donate at www.justgiving.com/DoveStep2

WFE are delighted to announce that Dr Lotty Packman will be joining our team next month. A fully licensed bat worker, Lotty will bring valued experience from her recent postdoctoral work on bats in churches.

Lotty will be speaking about her current work at Norwich Bat Group on Thursday 5th February. More details here.

Our director Robert Yaxley will be attending the University of East Anglia, School of Environmental Sciences careers event on 7th February 2015. He will be giving a presentation and meeting student ecologists to discuss a career in ecological consultancy.

We are delighted to start the new year with news of several recent successful renewable energy projects which we have been involved with. The following projects have become operational in the last year, Holton Solar Farm, Suffolk;  Bodham Solar Farm, Norfolk; Egmere Airfield Solar Park, Norfolk; Middlewick Wind Farm, Essex; Boardinghouse Wind Farm, Cambridgeshire; and at least three single wind turbines in the Midlands and Eastern England.

We have recently purchased a new thermal imaging camera. This will further enhance our capabilities to conduct nocturnal surveys for birds and bats. At present the camera is deployed on nocturnal bird surveys at a Scottish wind farm site, but it will be available for the 2015 survey season!

William Riddett recently became an Associate member of CIEEM. Well Done Will!

All Wild Frontier Ecology Staff are now associate or full members of our professional membership body the  Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management (CIEEM).

All Wild Frontier Ecology Staff are now LISS/CSCS card holders (Landbased Industry Skills Scheme/Construction Skills Certification Scheme). We have all recently passed the ROLO Health and Safety Awareness Course and the CSkills Health and Safety Test.

Wild Frontier Ecology are pleased to announce that our director Robert Yaxley, and Jonny Rankin have made it to the half way point of Dove Step a 300 mile walk to raise money for turtle doves! The whole team wish them the best of luck with the second half of the trip.