The Badger Consultancy was founded in 1990, in response to the demand for independent, professional advice on badgers and other mammals. Past clients include construction and development companies, engineering and environmental consultancies, Highways Agency, Network Rail, DEFRA, English Nature, Welsh Office, and councils.
Penny Lewns (formerly Penny Cresswell) carried out
a national survey of badgers in the late 1980s. Her publications include
scientific papers and books on surveying and monitoring badgers, and
constructing artificial setts.
She has been a member of the Mammal Society since 1984, a full
member of the Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management
(IEEM) since it was formed in 1993, and a member of the Society
for the Environment since 2005. Penny Lewns has held over 120 badger
sett interference licences since 1991 (when licences were first
introduced), and she is issued with a Countrywide Disturbance Licence
by English Nature each year. In addition, she holds a licence for
disturbance and handling of dormice in England and Wales, and has
held licences for disturbance to otters during construction of roads
and railways.
Dave Lewns was one of the UK’s first Ecological Clerk of
Works. He has specialist knowledge and expertise in the survey and
assessment of woodland habitats and protected species including
badgers, bats, dormice and great crested newts. He has been responsible
for the design and construction of more than 150 artificial badger
setts, the creation and translocation of wildlife habitats, and
species’ rescue work. Dave Lewns holds licences for work on
bats (all species) and great crested newt in all counties of England
and Wales.
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