Bat Roost Surveys
Scoping surveys for Bats
All UK bats and their roosts are protected by law. If you manage trees or woodland you must meet legal requirements to follow best practice in avoiding killing, injuring or disturbing bats or damaging or destroying their roosts.
This means you need to survey trees or woodlands to check for bats and their roosts.
Our principal consultant is fully trained and certified to undertake secondary roost surveys, including use of an endoscope, with practical skills needed in the field, methods used will rule out the potential of features as suitable or used bat roosts.
We undertake an initial ground level survey and carry out aerial surveys, via a rope and harness or Mobile Elevated Work Platform (MEWP) if potential roost features (PRF's) are seen from ground level.
All surveys are to British Standard 8596: Surveying for Bats in Trees and Woodlands.
Bat ecology, biology and the law
The Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 as amended by the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 provide statutory protection to birds, bats and other species that inhabit trees.
Our surveys will show your active duty of care under wildlife legislation.
Lantra acredited training provided by the Bat Conservation Trust.
Includes: Bats and Arboriculture – Scoping surveys for arborists
& Secondary Roost Surveys for Arborists - including endoscope use.
All work undertaken to BS8596.
We love bats here at Conservation Arboriculture and are proud members of the Bat Conservation Trust. and the Norfolk and Norwich Bat Group
Habitat Creation and Retention: We carve artificial cavities as bat roosts and bird boxes in retained dead/dying trees, at a suitable height, working with ecologists and other experts.
