Kent Wildlife Trust Consultancy Services
In 2019, we developed a strategic partnership with Kent Wildlife Trust (KWT) Consultancy Services, part of the Kent Wildlife Trust Group: an ecological consultancy that provides in depth and robust ecological and land management advice and importantly, returns all profits to conservation work in Kent. Through our partnership we can now offer a full range of professional ecology services to support the mission of a wilder Kent. We can work with developers, businesses, infrastructure, contractors and statutory partners, bringing expertise in natural process solutions, help adhere to best practice and ensure wildlife is key to planning and land management decision-making.
Our services
Ecological surveys, design and specialist advice:
· On site and off-site solution to Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG), Carbon Capture (CC) and Neutralising of Nitrates(NN)
· Robust metric work, design, landscape scale solutions, land purchase and management
Preliminary ecological assessments and feasibility studies
Phase 1 habitat surveys
Protected species surveys
Specialist surveys
Land management advice:
Advice on all aspects of BNG, Carbon Capture and Nutrient Neutrality
On site and off site land management plans
Advice on all aspects of land management (including support for land purchase)
Whole farm plans, understanding biodiversity as a public good and wilding areas
Woodland and arboricultural surveys
Ecological Clerk of Works (ECoW)
Practical land management work
Marine and coastal advice:
Approaches to locking up carbon and providing net gain through our marine environment
Advice and guidance on issues that affect the freshwater and marine environment
Advice on all aspects of Marine, intertidal and Coastal environment work
Marine, intertidal habitat and species surveys
Invasive species specialist advice and work
Awareness, education and practical training
Internship programmes
Core competencies and achievements
KWT Consultancy Services works as part of the Kent Wildlife Trust Group offering long-standing knowledge and expertise in land management and habitat restoration making us the ideal partner to help you find practical ecological solutions to managing constraints. Together we can support nature’s recovery and achieve net biodiversity gain through reputation enhancing, forward-thinking land management. KWT Consultancy Services’ team of experienced ecologists, GIS experts, land managers, landscape design and surveyors are members of the Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management (CIEEM) and the Wildlife Trust Consultancies. We hold the Construction Skills Certification Scheme (CSCS) card and have the high standards of project and environmental management you would expect from Kent’s leading wildlife protection organisation.
Nature-based solutions, Carbon Capture and Nutrient Neutrality
KWT Consultancy Services supports your work in enhancing natural resources to deliver biodiversity net gain, carbon storage and nutrient neutrality. The UK government has set ambitious goals to protect and restore the natural environment within a generation. Through the provision of biodiversity net gain, KWT Consultancy Services provide the essential ecological expertise, landscape and landscape scale design to ensure development and land management can achieve its commitments and much more, to enhance natural habitats to lock up as much carbon as possible and defend sensitive areas from seepage of nitrate.
In support of these goals, the government has committed to new laws that will make it mandatory for developments to deliver an overall increase in biodiversity, biodiversity net gain, so that biodiversity is in better condition after a development is completed. We will work with clients to design in natural and cost effective solutions to enhance appropriate habitat, to offset and store carbon emissions and support a carbon net zero approach that enhances and protects the future of Kent’s woodland, wetland, water bodies, species rich grassland and heathland.
We welcome this new policy, but also recognise the risk that this might not be realised. We support developers and ecologists to deliver what is being required by law, and to ensure that new habitat is being created in areas where it can make the biggest difference for wildlife. Kent Wildlife Trust and KWT Consultancy Services are working together to ensure this opportunity is not missed:
By offering advice, ecological and land management expertise and design at the concept stage
Supporting the biodiversity net gain metric build and BNG feasibility assessment
By offering on site and off site solutions
By providing and managing a long term off site nature based solution where relevant
By ensuring biodiversity net gain investment will be properly targeted to return a real gain for nature and support a Nature Recovery Network in Kent
By putting income from biodiversity net gain back into conservation work in Kent
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