We have organised and led numerous formal training events for volunteer groups, community groups and students. Professionals who have attended and benefited from our events include countryside rangers, ecological consultants, nature conservationists and ecological researchers. We have the capabilities to identify venues, to provide presentations and field work events (including materials for field sampling, identification and recording) which we can tailor to the audience requirements.
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| Alistair introducing the SRUC Rural Skills Club to water vole field signs in 2016 |
Topics which we have previously led introductory workshops in and spoken about include, but are not limited to:
- Badgers;
- Bat talk and walk (covering bat species in Aberdeenshire)*;
- Bumblebees*;
- Invertebrate conservation (policy and legislation);
- Spiders*; and
- Water voles.
Inhouse introductory training presentation and field workshop topics which we have provided for our employers previously have included:
- Eurasian beaver ecology, field signs and mitigation;
- Newt identification (great crested**, palmate and smooth), ecology and survey techniques;
- Reptile habitat features and field survey techniques;
- Botanical surveys and habitat classification; and
- Trees and the planning system and protection.
Suitably insured groups are welcome to approach us to inquire about or capabilities to for bespoke introductions about particular species and field skills. Interested parties can contact us via email anytime!
Our other wildlife education communications have included co-authoring and designing the 'Orbweavers of the Highlands, Cairngorms and North East Scotland' leaflet (available from the British Arachnological Society website); 'River Dee & Climate Change' factsheets for the Cults, Bieldside & Milltimber Community Council; an internet radio interview about spiders (Monster FM); and a field based interview for an a radio documentary on badgers (Andrew Scott's 'Wild Outdoors!' on Deveron FM). Our trail camera footage of badgers featured prominently on BBC Landward 2017/18 episode 22.
* These presentations and workshops topics have previously been provided soley whilst representing other organisations but bespoke courses based on our own reviews can be provided by Kaimhill Ecology independently if requested.
** We do not hold licences for great crested newt but we have attended training including handling of this species and torching under the trainers licence. We have the knowledge and experience from monitoring the widespread amphibian species which enables us to introduce all of these species, survey methods and field skills with the exception of actions which would require a derogation licence.
** We do not hold licences for great crested newt but we have attended training including handling of this species and torching under the trainers licence. We have the knowledge and experience from monitoring the widespread amphibian species which enables us to introduce all of these species, survey methods and field skills with the exception of actions which would require a derogation licence.
