We provide expert ecological advice and technical solutions to a wide range of consultancies. Our aim is to furnish our clients with sound scientific knowledge as the basis for making responsible decisions involving land use and resource management. We specialise in protected species surveys and mitigation, and can undertake the component parts of large scale environmental assessments from scoping studies to the on-site implementation of mitigation schemes using our in-house ecological contracting department.

We employ a team of highly trained people, all experts in a full range of ecological disciplines with membership to the Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management (IEEM). Between them our staff hold various protected species licenses and accreditations for a range of habitat survey techniques e.g. bat roost visitor licenses, countryside disturbance licence for Badgers, River Habitat Survey (RHS) accreditation, etc.

What Keystone can do for Other Consultancies...

Our staff have excellent communication and negotiation skills and are fully competent at delivering practical solutions to all parties involved with a project. We have worked on highways, rail, mineral extraction, residential and commercial development, water utilities, energy and regeneration projects throughout the UK.

• We can carry out surveys to a pre-determined format or design and implement surveys for site specific requirements
  
  
• We will produce reports and graphics to a defined structure and format or will work to our own standard
  
  
• We utilise GIS and associated software packages for large scale biodiversity audits, protected species and habitat surveys
  
  
• We can devise policies and Biodiversity Actions Plans through consultation
  
  
• We carry out desk top consultations and reviews of data and policies
  
  
• We have an in-depth knowledge of current legislation and environmental policy
  
  
• We routinely produce the ecology chapter of Environmental Statements in accordance with the current guidelines produced by the Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management (IEEM)
  
  
• We have extensive experience in the design of approved mitigation strategies and can apply for a wide range of licences on behalf of our clients
  
  
• Our in-house contracting department can supply site staff for the supervision of ecological works and site briefings and at the other end of the scale can install exclusion fencing and capture devices, create and restore habitats and implement habitat management techniques for conservation gain