LUC is has recently invested in new specialist equipment to assist with night-time bat surveys. This will help us provide even more cost-effective and robust ecological support to our clients.

Alongside traditional survey methods, we can now use a video camera and infrared lamp to film footage of bats at roosts.  This can help reduce project costs by supplementing our specialist bat surveyors.

Our latest footage found a brown long-eared bat maternity roost within a cavity wall. Early detection of this enabled our client to build mitigation proposals into the project from the outset, saving them time and money.