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After 12 years of working in the nature conservation sector in the UK. I felt the need to touch base with the tropics again. So in November 2019 I joined a team of anthropologist, biologist and botanist and we head to the north part of the country to interview indigenous healers and gather the medicinal plants they use. I also …
Verde-ecology Consultancy took a “leap of faith” and launched ecology and botany courses for professionals working in the nature conservation sector. The courses range from Phase 1 habitat survey to calcareous grassland NVC, to grasses id. In 2020 we hope to deliver more courses.
We were hired by the Field Studies Council to deliver IB biology courses to students coming from abroad. This was in the FSC centre in Pembrokeshire, a long way away from Durham. We did rocky shore explorations, dune surveying and woodland work.
Through August of 2019 we were contracted by DWT on behalf of Robert McAlpine to survey the road verges along the A19 road. This was an exhilarating job because we have to walk in high viz PPE along the road verges of the A19 recording all the plants species present on the grasslands. As well as identifying mag lime and …
We were requested to survey the grasslands of Auckland Castle grounds in County Durham. We needed to highlight the grassland habitats of conservation interest. Like species rich Acid grasslands, marshy grasslands and to undertake a full species list. It was very interesting to survey the grasslands nested between the veteran trees, ancient buildings and meandering the shores of the river …