Licence holders!!!!

[ripplingwave]

Hey all

Im in the process of arranging fieldwork for my dissertation and need some advice/direction pointing to local licence holders/courses. I have arranged to start my bat licencing work but still need dormice and shrew licence holders willing to take me on!

Im in south Essex on the Herts border and can travel approx 20 - 30 mile radius. My fieldwork will be taking place in south Essex.

If anyone knows of anyone, the help would be much appreiciated.

ps, I have enquired with EWT and other local small mammal groups but most can't help or can but it will be too late!

[blissful urchin]

im in exeter and have several licences, i think if i was in your shoes, though i dont know how much time you have on your hands to train, i would try approaching a local ecological consultancy and offer a pair of hands in return for going out on some dormouse surveys?..unless there is a dormouse monitoring programme checking boxes in your area?
i didnt think you needed a licence to survey for shrews unless you were going to kill them?!
good luck!
cheers elly

[ripplingwave]

Well its a bit ambiguous as it says on the Defra and natural england sites that you only need one if you are killing but then on another page it says trapping too :\
So I have decided to just phone Bristol to confirm! Plus I may just set my traps weighting to not trap them. We shall see!

Ive managed to arrange dormouse monitoring with a group now, got alot sorted yesterday!!

Thanks anyway

[wildlifesnapper]

Hi

as far as I am led to believe you need a licence to trap shrews as you need one to confine them for photography.I think this is because of their high metabolism and their need to eat so much food to survive( do they need to eat their body weight in a day?).In inexperienced hands they may not be fed enough and starve, and I think this is why a licence is needed.

neil