Protected Species - The Grove
| Client: | Private |
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| Location: | Hertfordshire |
| Ecologist: | Susan Deakin Ecology |
Outcome
A scheme was evolved to take care of protected species which included the construction of an artificial badger sett and the exclusion of badgers from a main sett in a dried-up lake so that it could be restored as part of an historic landscape restoration. It also involved the capture of grass snakes and their removal to a new location prior to construction, the temporary exclusion of bats during building renovation, the introduction of bat bricks and bat tiles to enable re-colonisation, the creation of bat hibernation sites in former air-raid shelters, the placing of bat boxes in the grounds to attract regionally rare species for breeding, the translocation of valued grassland which will be managed through grazing by sheep and continual monitoring of protected species during construction.