Ecologist wanted!

Ecologist wanted to join our Edinburgh Ecology Team

Salary in the range of £22,000 - £27,000 per annum depending on experience

We have an established team with great aspirations based in Edinburgh and are looking for an Ecologist to join our busy team. Our projects include major infrastructure developments including roads, rail, gas, and electricity, as well as small-scale and private developments. We’re looking for an ecologist to join our team and support our surveys, helping us with our existing client relationships and developing new ones.

Are hot weather events harming roosting bats?

In periods of hot weather bat boxes and confined roosts, such as those in cavities, can be especially dangerous to bats. Scientists are now discovering that in a rapidly warming climate, overheating bat boxes and some roost spaces can be a death trap. When bats roost in an a loft or attic they can move inside the space to avoid high temperatures. However bats can’t do this as easily in a small cavity or some bat boxes and they become more vulnerable to overheating and dehydration.

Senior Ecologist wanted to join our south-west business

Ellendale Environmental have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Ecologist to be based in  the south-west of England. We are an established team with a busy workload and have great aspirations to grow.

A great start to the week for our Ecology team who were successfully granted a European Protected Species (EPS) Bat Mitigation Licence from Natural England for a project in Somerset where our client has planning permission to redevelop three derelict agricultural barns into residential properties.

Senior Ecologist wanted to join our Scotland Team

Ellendale Environmental have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Ecologist in Scotland. We are an established team with a busy workload and have great aspirations to grow. We are looking for a Senior Ecologist to lead our ecology surveys, to manage our existing client relationships and to develop business. Whilst our team office is in Edinburgh, we are flexible on location for the right person and salary would be negotiable based on experience.

If you require a PEA survey and want to discuss how Ellendale Environmental can help then please get in touch.

Ellendale Environmental ecologists undertake ecology surveys throughout the UK including Preliminary Ecological Appraisal (PEA). Our ecologists have completed PEA surveys to support planning applications for a wide range of developments to including proposed residential developments, overhead lines, substations, underground cables, peak gas generators, pipelines, roads, industrial sites and glamping developments as part of planning applications.

Blair joins Ellendale as a Graduate Ecologist and will be primarily working in South Wales to support the team, providing on-site ecological advice and support for an overhead line project.

Ellendale Environmental assisted Neil Gray of Gray Planning on this application and the team is very pleased to have received positive feedback on the noise report. Neil commented that “the EHO was content with the noise report and recommended the advice in your report be conditions of planning, so we appreciate your input to the project to date”.

Congratulations to Andrew Whitelee who last week obtained his Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) Schedule 1 bird survey licence.

Environmental DNA, also known as eDNA for short, is a recent method and survey technique which is sometimes used by our ecologists at Ellendale Environmental for protected species.

If you think you may require assistance with eDNA sampling or would like to discuss protected species surveying, then please get in touch today and a member of our team will be very happy to assist you.

Each year on April 17th, International Bat Appreciation Day reminds us of the role bats play in our daily lives. Bats have a vital role in ecosystems around the world. They are a diverse group of animals accounting for over 20% of the world's mammals.

With current travel restrictions resulting in fewer cars on the road (and hence less noise), we have been noticing much more of nature and its sounds. This has reminded us of the sculpted trees in the Plaza de San Francisco in Seville,which were full of birds at the time of visiting and was quite the noise.

Hedgehogs Erinaceus europaeus are one of the UK’s best-loved mammals and sadly now in serious decline.

During the Covid-19 lockdown, we’ve challenged our ecologists to film their local wildlife using Trail-Cameras.
Andrew Whitelee filmed hedgehog in his garden.

Ellendale Environmental has been successful in obtaining a Natural England Development Licence for a Lesser Horseshoe bat maternity roost on behalf of our clients.

Recently, Ellendale Environmental have been working with Balfour Beatty and National Grid providing environmental management, surveys and advice with regards to breeding birds on a vital overhead line refurbishment and tower replacement project in South Wales.

Ellendale Environmental and Balfour Beatty have been working together to restore a pond for Sennybridge Primary School in the Brecon Beacons.