Badger Surveys
Our in-house team includes experienced badger surveyors, and we benefit from having a Class Licensed badger worker, allowing us to obtain expedited badger licences within 10 working days. We are highly experienced in all aspects of badger surveying, monitoring, impact assessment and mitigation implementation.
Aurochs Ecology is pleased to offer the following services relating to badger:
- Initial site appraisals and field surveys to seek evidence of badger activity in the form of setts, foraging evidence, push-throughs and latrines.
- Longer term monitoring, including with camera trapping, to confirm sett use and conservation significance.
- Bait marking surveys to ascertain territory extents and the presence of multiple social groups.
- Design and implementation of appropriate avoidance and mitigation strategies, including as part of a Natural England licence.
- Ability to register development sites under the Class Licence scheme, with the benefit of drastically reducing licence approval timeframes.
- Ecological Clerk of Work services, including oversight of licensable works and provision of toolbox talks.