Acer Ecology

It has been announced that a £15 million roof repair fund is now available for listed places of worship. However, the cut-off date for applications is 12 noon, Friday 30th January 2015. Individual grants are available between £10,000 and £100,000 which … Read More

Vegetative Plant Identification – 13th October 2015 This course will help improve your skills in identifying plants using vegetative characters. We will use a variety of field techniques including the Vegetative Key to the British Flora by John Poland. We … Read More

Bird Survey Techniques Course – 13th April 2016 – Evening Course [button]Fully Booked[/button] During the course we will explore the techniques involved in a range of different bird surveys including winter bird counts, roost counts, nest box monitoring, vantage point surveys (for … Read More

Tree Survey & Inspection Course for Beginners, 28th November 2014 Fancy Branching out into a new career Rooted in arboriculture? Feel like you’re Barking up the wrong tree when it comes to assessing a hazard or risk? Or perhaps you … Read More

Tree Survey & Inspection Course for Beginners – November 2015 This one-day course will provide tree survey and inspection training at a basic level for people with limited arboricultural knowledge. Participants will be taught to identify obvious defects from ground … Read More

Throughout this year, Acer Ecology will be running a wide range of one day training courses for all ecology enthusiasts from Phase 1 Habitat Surveys to Using Bat Detectors. Whether you’re a graduate or student eager to gain more valuable skills … Read More

Changes to how the way that certain types of land will be categorised for payment under the next round of Pillar One of the Common Agricultural Policy were announced in August 2014. As part of these changes, the definition of … Read More

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