Katy Stiles Email & Phone Number

Katy has over seventeen years professional experience in ecology and nature conservation. Her clients include utilities companies, local authorities, the Environment Agency, Natural England and developers.Katy is proficient in a wide range of ecological surveys, and regularly provides specialist advice in relation to protected species survey, mitigation, licensing and habitat management initiatives to developers. She is a competent botanist with experience of a range of habitats and survey methods including Phase 1 Habitat Surveys and National Vegetation Classification (NVC) Surveys. Katy is also highly skilled in surveying for a range of protected species including badgers, water voles and otters. She holds a Natural England survey licence for both bats and great crested newts. Katy has led on a number of contracts involving water voles, great crested newts and bats, and has held in excess of thirty mitigation bat licences. Her high level of experience with development bat licences has allowed her to take part in a number of specialist Natural England workshops to improve and enhance the European Protected Species licensing system.Katy has a sound understanding of nature conservation legislation and policy, and its practical application in the UK. She works closely with clients to identify ecological issues and constraints early in the design process, and to develop innovative and realistic approaches to survey and mitigation.Specialties: - Client Liaison- Project Management- Protected Species Survey, Mitigation and Licensing- Nature Conservation Policy and Law- Botany / Botanical Survey- National Vegetation Classification (NVC)- Badger Survey- Water Vole Survey- Otter Survey- Bat Survey (Katy holds a bat licence), mitigation and licensing- Great Crested Newt Survey (Katy holds a licence)- Detailed understanding of the European Protected Species licensing system

Listed skills include National Vegetation Classification, Nature Conservation Policy And Legislation, Extended Phase 1 Habitat Survey, Licensed Bat Worker, and 20 others.

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  University Of Wales, Aberystwyth

  Environmental Science