Current Contracts
Contract 1: 2006-2009
Biodiversity
Survey: Working alongside the RSPB at Furzy Mount Farm.
3 year contract monitoring insect populations on a study farm diversifying into
environmentally sustainable crop and cattle production. My current projects are looking at the effect
of cattle worming regimes on dung insect assemblages, assessing the advantages
of non-ivermectin-based wormers, and monitoring Coleoptera: Carabidae (Ground Beetles) on
specified study sites under agri-environment scheme management.
Contract 2: May-June 2008
Biodiversity
Survey: Assessing no tillage as a land use practice to
benefit ground invertebrates, especially Carabidae.
Contract 3: May-June 2008
Biodiversity
Survey: creation of a species list and information boards
for a farm opening to the public.
Contract 4: January 2008-present - West Wales Biodiversity Information Centre (WWBIC)
Pembrokeshire County Coleoptera Recorder
Editor
and Writer: West Wales Biodiversity Centre (WWBIC) monthly
newsletter, 6 month contract from November 2007.
Head
of Publicity and Website maintenance: WWBIC 6 month contract
from November 2007.
Contract 5: January 2008-present - Farming
and Wildlife Advisory Group (FWAG)
FWAG ‘Pichwach' consultant ecologist and entomologist:
Biodiversity Survey and Advisor.
Pembrokeshire FWAG Event management
Deepford Brook Catchment Sensitive Farming
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