Great Crested Newt Survey and Evaluation
Saturday 10 April 2010
Location: Brockenhurst, Hampshire
Tutor: Liam Russell MIEEM
Level: Beginner – Intermediate
The workshop will cover every aspect of planning and interpreting a great crested newt survey. This includes risk assessment and health and safety, legal protection and licensing requirements, amphibian identification, survey standards and guidelines, survey techniques, biosecurity and fieldwork planning. As well as covering surveying itself, the workshop will also cover habitat assessment including the great crested newt Habitat Suitability Index. The workshop will also cover the analysis and evaluation of survey results, including, population size assessment from survey data, population and metapopulation structure and other forms of qualitative analysis. The workshop will include practical fieldwork sessions on habitat assessment and an evening amphibian survey.
IEEM Members: £80 (£70 if booked before 10 February 2010).
Non-members: £160 (£140 if booked before 10 February 2010).
Who should attend this workshop?
The workshop is aimed for anyone interested in carrying out great crested newt surveys and evaluating the results. Including consultants providing baseline data for EcIAs and European Protected Species licence applications, land managers involved in great crested newt conservation projects and those preparing management plans.
Anything participants need to know/read before coming on the training event, or need to have with them?
- Torch (1 million candle power) – if attending the torch counting session.
- Wellington Boots.
- Waterproof clothing.
- A packed lunch.
What will participants learn from the workshop (learning outcomes)?
- How to identify a great crested newt.
- How to survey for great crested newts using all standard survey techniques.
- How and why they are protected species.
- How to assess habitat quality for great crested newts.
- How to interpret great crested newt survey results.