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With 21 years of professional experience, Richard Crompton is known as one of the most respected specialist bat consultants in the UK. He holds licences in England and Wales, which include Advanced Bat Survey Techniques (catching bats with mist nets/harp traps and acoustic lures, ringing and marking), and is one of just a handful of bat specialists licenced under the Natural England Bats in Churches Class Licence for working on high conservation priority bat populations in Churches, including using acoustic sound deterrent techniques. He has a particular interest in the interaction between bats and historic buildings and landscapes, and a long standing interest in tree management.
Formerly founder and Director at Wildwood Ecology Limited (1998 - 2016) and a former Trustee and Director of the Bat Conservation Trust (BCT), he has worked on some of the most prominent development schemes in Wales involving bats and delivered training to hundreds of people from a range of different professions. He has also been a member of the author/editor/review panel for all three editions of BCT's Bat Survey Guidelines.
In partnership with Dr Sandie Sowler together they run the Bat Training Partnership, including the flagship Bat Licence Training Course (re-named to become Complete Bat Training in 2019) - the longest running bat licence training programme for professionals in the UK, with over 250 people trained since the course started in 2008.
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Over the past twenty-one years I have undertaken ecological surveys - mostly for bats - at well over 1000 different sites, for almost every type of client imaginable; private developers, householders, large corporate, military, infrastructure, nuclear power stations, housing developers, farms, castles, charities large and small. As one of the most active trainers for professional bat surveys skills, I have also trained over 250 people for bat licences, plus many more from arborists, environmental managers and staff from the Statutory Agencies.
In addition to my support and training work, I only aim to take on a handful of project sites. These all involve bats and typically are associated with large or important roosts, including both horseshoe bat species, or bats in unusual or strategically important structures. I do not typically undertake preliminary surveys for planning applications.
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We provide ad-hoc support, advice, mentoring and training - usually regarding bat ecology - to professional clients.
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