Course convenor(s):
Warren Cresswell (BSc, PhD, CEnv, MIEEM, MIoD)
Date: 17/11/2009
Course length: 1 day
Venue:
Cresswell Associates, The Mill, Brimscombe Port, Stroud,
GL5 2QG
Course fee: £150
5% or 10% discount available if 2+ / 4+ courses are booked respectively
Outline:
This course provides information on monitoring and mitigation of badger setts in the context of development projects, including licensing requirements, sett monitoring, exclusions, and artificial sett construction. A field trip will demonstrate examples of monitoring techniques and artificial sett construction.
Further information:
Cresswell Associates
The Mill, Brimscombe Port
Stroud, GL5 2QG
T: +44 (0) 1453 731 231
F: +44 (0) 1453 888 797
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Target audience:
This course is aimed at those with an understanding of badger biology and survey techniques (particularly participants of the Cresswell Associates courses Badgers (I): Background Biology and Survey Techniques and Badgers (II): Legislation, Impact Assessment, and Mitigation) but who wish to learn more about mitigating impacts on badger setts
Aims:
To provide:
- training on how to monitor badger setts including ‘sticking’ and sand pads
- training on how to carry out badger exclusions using badger gates and electric fencing
- training on artificial sett construction
- information on the required consultations with SNCOs with regards to licence applications
To demonstrate:
- methods of sett monitoring, badger exclusion, and artificial sett construction
Objectives:
At the end of the course you should be able to:
- monitor badger setts for signs of activity and interpret the results
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- advise clients on licensing requirements
- understand the processes needed to carry out badger exclusions from setts
- understand the processes needed to supervise sett destruction
- design and build artificial setts
Course content:
Lectures:
- Monitoring badger setts
- Excluding badgers from setts
- Artificial setts
- Supervising sett destruction
- Licence applications
Fieldwork:
- Visits to nearby sites to demonstrate monitoring techniques, exclusion techniques and artificial sett construction
Additional information/requirements:
2 additional courses on badgers are available:
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