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		<title>BSG Ecology puts first phase of North-East and Scottish expansion in place</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 12:10:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cuthbert House]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Following seven successful years operating from our office in the borders, we are very pleased to announce that we are relocating from Berwick upon Tweed to City Centre Newcastle. At the same time we are assessing options for the development of a presence further north, ...]]></description>
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		<title>Significant urban extension receives planning permission</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 12:25:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Core Strategy Examination in Public]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr Peter Shepherd]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[BSG Ecology has been working on proposals for the Great Haddon urban expansion on the southern edge of Peterborough for over seven years. We were delighted to learn that in March this year Peterborough City Council granted outline planning permission for this significant development.]]></description>
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		<title>Ecosystem Services – is this how we will value our environment in the future?</title>
		<link>http://www.bsg-ecology.com/index.php/ecosystem-services-environment-future/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bsg-ecology.com/index.php/ecosystem-services-environment-future/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 12:03:48 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sustainable design]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Contingent valuation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hedonic pricing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IEEM spring conference]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Millennium Ecosystem Assessment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Planning Policy Framework]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steven Betts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sustainable development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UK National Ecosystem Assessment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[valuation of ecosystems]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Following recent ecosystem services review work undertaken by BSG Ecology, Steven Betts, a partner in our Berwick Upon Tweed office, recently attended the IEEM spring conference where the topic was under discussion. 
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		<title>Mammals, Amphibians and Reptiles of the North East of England.</title>
		<link>http://www.bsg-ecology.com/index.php/mammals-amphibians-reptiles-north-east-england/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bsg-ecology.com/index.php/mammals-amphibians-reptiles-north-east-england/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 12:31:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[American mink]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[amphibian]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amphibians and Reptiles of the North East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BSG Ecology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[distribution map]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mammals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mammals of North East England]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Natural History Society of Northumbria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Northumbria Mammal Group]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reptile]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Senior Ecologist Vicky Armitage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Species accounts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Senior Ecologist Vicky Armitage, a founder member of the Northumbria Mammal Group, has recently contributed to an important new publication – the culmination of an ambitious project to produce a book about the mammals of North East England.  It is the first account of all the mammal species across the region since 1864 - a gap of 150 years.]]></description>
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		<title>Pilot Study on Bat Migration at Dungeness</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2013 16:04:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[common pipistrelle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Walker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dungeness]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Laura Jennings]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[migrate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Myotis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nathusius’ pipistrelle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Noctule]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oxford]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Senior ecologist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[serotine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[soprano pipistrelle]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There is currently considerable uncertainty as to the extent to which bats migrate in and out of the UK from Continental Europe, although many experts in UK bat ecology consider that some degree of migration occurs]]></description>
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		<title>Otter Holt Creation</title>
		<link>http://www.bsg-ecology.com/index.php/otter-holt-creation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bsg-ecology.com/index.php/otter-holt-creation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2013 13:20:09 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Habitat management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BSG Ecology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gravel pit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hanson Aggregates Ltd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[infra-red camera]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Laura Jennings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nature After Minerals]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Oxfordshire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RSPB]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sprainting]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Working in conjunction with Hanson Aggregates Ltd and the RSPB, BSG Ecology staff have created an otter holt at a gravel pit in Oxfordshire. The site has been chosen by the RSPB as a Nature After Minerals case study site, and is in the process ...]]></description>
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		<title>Post-construction ecological monitoring at wind farm sites</title>
		<link>http://www.bsg-ecology.com/index.php/post-construction-ecological-monitoring-wind-farm-sites/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bsg-ecology.com/index.php/post-construction-ecological-monitoring-wind-farm-sites/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2013 15:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Birds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Renewable energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[birds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[collision]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[displacement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EIA Regulations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[monitoring studies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Owain Gabb]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Post-construction monitoring]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wind farms]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Post-construction monitoring has been undertaken at wind farms in the UK for many years, and is now routinely requested for many multiple-turbine schemes. ]]></description>
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		<title>Tree climbing survey for bats</title>
		<link>http://www.bsg-ecology.com/index.php/tree-climbing-survey-bats/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bsg-ecology.com/index.php/tree-climbing-survey-bats/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2013 16:44:54 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Bats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Protected species]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aerial inspection surveys]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bat-licensed ecologists]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bats and trees]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tree climbing survey for bats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tree climbing surveys]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Tree climbing surveys (sometimes known as aerial inspection surveys) are an effective way to assess a tree’s potential to support bats. This technique, which uses access skills borrowed from tree surgery, is far more definitive than ground-based survey, and can be very cost-effective.]]></description>
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		<title>We are recruiting &#8211; Principal Ecologist</title>
		<link>http://www.bsg-ecology.com/index.php/recruiting-principal-ecologist/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bsg-ecology.com/index.php/recruiting-principal-ecologist/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2013 13:40:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[BSG Ecology recruitment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[job vacancy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oxford office]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Principal consultant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Principal Ecologist]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[BSG Ecology is expanding its teams across the practice and we are now recruiting Principal Consultants for our Oxford office. ]]></description>
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		<title>Royal Forest of Dean home to rare fern</title>
		<link>http://www.bsg-ecology.com/index.php/royal-forest-dean-home-rare-fern/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bsg-ecology.com/index.php/royal-forest-dean-home-rare-fern/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2013 12:59:52 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ascend]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asplenium trichomanes spp. pachyrachis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bat surveys]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chepstow Castle]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[roost sites]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Steph Boocock]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UK fern DNA barcoding project]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Whitecliff Furnace]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the last few years BSG Ecology has provided ecological support to a heritage lottery-funded project aimed at restoring Whitecliff Furnace, a Scheduled Ancient Monument near Coleford in the Royal Forest of Dean. ]]></description>
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