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Working with wildlife

Are you working in the construction industry and concerned about your overall environmental performance? Are you managing a site and have wildlife issues to deal with, but few or no ideas about how to handle them? Then this is the training course for you! Includes a free copy of CIRIA’s popular Working with wildlife handbook for every delegate.

What
When 28/01/2008
from 09:30 to 17:00
Where London
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Programme

09.30

Registration with coffee

 

Welcome and review of the aims for the day

 

Introduction – Aims
Participants’ introductions and needs
What questions regarding wildlife do you have?

 

Why bother?
History of wildlife and nature conservation in the British Isles.
Why wildlife is important and it’s interactions with the construction industry including EMS, BREEAM, CEEQUAL etc.

 

Ecology – the basics
Principles and jargon
Legislation

 

Planning and biodiversity
Powers of local planning authorities
Planning Policy Guidance
Biodiversity Action Plans

 

Lunch

 

Protected species
What they are
How to deal with them

 

Noxious plants
What they are
How to deal with them

 

Wildlife survey
What are they?
Who carries them out?
When should they happen?

 

Where next?
Where and how to get help
Consultants and how to select them
Role of third parties
What can you do?

17.00

Discussion
Final questions
Conclusions

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