Group: Friends of Angus Herpetofauna (FAH)
Date: Sunday 08 April 2012
Description: Volunteer surveyors are currently sought in the Angus area for the on-going National Amphibian and Reptile Recording Scheme (NARRS). No specific experience is necessary as free training will be provided in reptile identification, habitat assessment, survey methods, survey protocols, recording, health & safety, licensing, and landowner permissions.  If you have a love of wildlife and the great outdoors, and can spare some time over the spring and summer months, this survey is for you!  Please bring stout footwear, wellies and waterproofs.

Venue: Glenesk Hotel, Edzell, Nr. Brechin (NO 602 685)

Reptile Programme:      09:30-10:00         Arrive (tea/coffee)
                                            10:00-13:00         Reptile classroom session
                                            13:30-15:00         Reptile survey field session

To ensure your place on the above course, please contact:

Trevor Rose on 07778 830192 or email to secretary@thebhs.org

 

Group: Friends of Angus Herpetofauna (FAH)
Date: Sunday 18 March 2012
Description: Volunteer surveyors are currently sought in the Angus area for the on-going National Amphibian and Reptile Recording Scheme (NARRS). No specific experience is necessary as free training will be provided in amphibian identification, habitat assessment, survey methods, survey protocols, recording, health & safety, licensing, and landowner permissions.  If you have a love of wildlife and the great outdoors, and can spare some time over the spring and summer months, this survey is for you!  Please bring stout footwear, wellies and waterproofs.  

Venue: Aberlemno Village Hall, Aberlemno, Nr. Forfar (NO 521 558)

Programme:         09:00-09:30         Arrive (tea/coffee)

                          09:30-12:30         Amphibian classroom session

                          13:30-16:00         Amphibian survey field session

                          16:00-20:30        Break (optional pub/meal)

                          20:30-22:00         Amphibian torchlight field session

 

To ensure your place on either or both of the above courses, please contact:
Trevor Rose on 07778 830192 or email to secretary@thebhs.org 

Group: Devon Reptile & Amphibian Group (DRAG)
Date: Friday 30 March 2012
Description:

Dear DRAG members

I am running two great crested newt survey courses this year. Both will be based at Decoy allotments, Newton Abbot, with classroom sessions at nearby Forde House (Teignbridge Council Offices).

The courses will cover the ecology of GCNs, survey techniques and conservation and will include field visits to carry out Habitat Suitability Index assessments and demonstrate survey methods including egg search, torching and bottle trapping. Decoy supports all three species of newt and has good numbers of GCNs, so a sighting is guaranteed!!

Both courses will commence at 2pm on a Friday afternoon with a classroom session, followed by a field visit to carry out HSI and egg search and set bottle traps. We will then go to a local pub for dinner and return to the site for torching at 10pm. The next day we will empty the bottle traps and depart.

The first course is on Fri 23rd – Sat 24th March and is exclusively for people who wish to volunteer for our GCN survey programme. The cost is £50 which will be refunded providing the volunteer undertakes a minimum of 15 hours survey work for DRAG.

The second course is Fri 30th – Sat 31st March and is aimed at consultants and others seeking to increase their knowledge of GCNs and work towards a NE licence. The content will be along the same lines as the first but will include legislation and mitigation techniques, though it will not be a major component of the course. The cost of this course is £100 and 50% of the proceeds will be donated to DRAG.

Please get in touch if you want to book on either of these courses.

Cheers

Nicky Green Cenv MIEEM

DRAG Chair

nicky@green-ecology.co.uk

Group: Devon Reptile & Amphibian Group (DRAG)
Date: Friday 23 March 2012
Description:

Dear DRAG members

I am running two great crested newt survey courses this year. Both will be based at Decoy allotments, Newton Abbot, with classroom sessions at nearby Forde House (Teignbridge Council Offices).

The courses will cover the ecology of GCNs, survey techniques and conservation and will include field visits to carry out Habitat Suitability Index assessments and demonstrate survey methods including egg search, torching and bottle trapping. Decoy supports all three species of newt and has good numbers of GCNs, so a sighting is guaranteed!!

Both courses will commence at 2pm on a Friday afternoon with a classroom session, followed by a field visit to carry out HSI and egg search and set bottle traps. We will then go to a local pub for dinner and return to the site for torching at 10pm. The next day we will empty the bottle traps and depart.

The first course is on Fri 23rd – Sat 24th March and is exclusively for people who wish to volunteer for our GCN survey programme. The cost is £50 which will be refunded providing the volunteer undertakes a minimum of 15 hours survey work for DRAG.

The second course is Fri 30th – Sat 31st March and is aimed at consultants and others seeking to increase their knowledge of GCNs and work towards a NE licence. The content will be along the same lines as the first but will include legislation and mitigation techniques, though it will not be a major component of the course. The cost of this course is £100 and 50% of the proceeds will be donated to DRAG.

Please get in touch if you want to book on either of these courses.

Cheers

Nicky Green Cenv MIEEM

DRAG Chair

nicky@green-ecology.co.uk

Group: Devon Reptile & Amphibian Group (DRAG)
Date: Wednesday 29 February 2012
Description:

6.30 - 9.00 pm (approx.)

Join us on a guided tour of our fascinating Reptile Tropics and Crocodile Swamp and get exclusive behind the scenes access in Amphibian Ark.

Enjoy this rare chance to meet some of the experienced keepers and experts in reptile and amphibian conservation and a special opportunity to ask questions and find out how we care for these animals.

Also enjoy a cheese and wine reception, a presentation by Curator Mike Bungard and Q & A session with the experts.

Tickets: £12.00 non-members / £10.00 members

Limited space available. To book please telephone 0844 474 222

This is a fundraising event and all proceeds will be used to support the conservation charity work at Paignton Zoo.

Many thanks in advance

Samantha Branch nee Mudge

Marketing Manager

Paignton Zoo Environmental Park

Group: Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Amphibian and Reptile Group
Date: Saturday 24 March 2012
Description: Great Crested Newt Survey Training, Saturday 24^th March, afternoon and evening, Peterborough (location tbc), in support of the Big Newt Count of Hampton Nature Reserve, home of the largest population of GCN in the world (30,000).

 I will email the new announcement list with further opportunities as they are organised, and if you have any ideas of things you’d like to do or places you’d like to do them please let me know.