Our services

We offer a range of services that can be tailored to meet your individual needs. Our approach is focused on understanding and responding to what you require, providing effective and practical solutions.

Wildlife surveys

White Horse Ecology and its associates can conduct wildlife surveys to support site management planning, monitoring management objectives, supporting development projects or providing baselines for green financing.  These can range from small site based surveys to landscape scale assessments of habitat and species.

Site management planning

Whatever the aims of your site management, we can provide a flexible package to meet your needs.  These include management for wildlife, management to incorporate community engagement or access to green finance whilst meeting other site based objectives.

Project management and funding

We have experience of managing both large and small projects.  From small scale site management works to the development and declaration of a landscape scale partnership-based National Nature Reserve.

We have also helped many clients to access funding for their projects and have been able to support applications.

Monitoring and evaluation

White Horse Ecology specialises in evaluations for National Lottery funded projects.  Our diverse experiences and backgrounds allow us to work with a variety of different projects including habitat creation projects, park and green space development projects, community engagement projects and built heritage projects.

Examples of work undertaken

Wildlife surveys

  • Assessment of reptile populations in Perry Wood
  • Preliminary Ecological Assessments
  • Formal phase 2 assessments to support mitigation plans for development projects
  • Dormouse surveys across the Affinity Water estate
  • UK Habitat assessments and condition assessments to support Biodiversity Net Gain projects with accompanying Habitat Management and Monitoring Plans (HMMPs)
  • Botany surveys on River Medway lock sites
  • Surveys to support management plans
  • Landscape scale assessment of amphibian and reptile conservation status and recommendations

Site management planning

  • Dane Valley Woods, Margate
  • Milton Creek Country Park
  • Teers Meadow, Harrietsham
  • Oare Gunpowder Works, Faversham
  • The Veitch Land, Sandling
  • Shaw Grange, Charing
  • Hawkwood Estate
  • Bell Wood, Pluckley
  • Crabbles Bottom, Shorne
  • Stillwater Park, Herne Bay
  • Forstal Field, Aylesfield
  • Castle Lake, Leybourne

Project management and funding

  • Development and declaration of the North Kent Woods and Downs National Nature Reserve (including raising funding)
  • Restoration of Teers Meadow, Harrietsham (including raising funding)
  • Fundraising to support The Ash Project, Putting Down Routes and GEO Diversity (all National Lottery Heritage Fund supported Kent Downs National Landscape projects)
  • Managing Defra supported tests and Trials into viticulture, access and natural flood management
  • Developing a new business plan for the White Cliffs Countryside Partnership
  • Surveys, assessments of bankside tree felling and developing site management plans for the Medway Navigation

Monitoring and evaluation

  • Developing a Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning plan for Lincolnshire Wash Landscape Recovery Scheme
  • Kearsney Parks
  • Giving Nature a Home in the Dearne Valley
  • A Greener Thames
  • Climate Change Resilience for Blean Woods and Seasalter Levels
  • Wanstone Rediscovered: Bringing Back the Big Guns
  • Whose Hoo
  • Dearne Valley Landscape Partnership Scheme Legacy Plan
  • Up on the Downs Landscape Partnership Scheme Legacy Plan
  • Head for the Hills (Kent Downs 50th anniversary engagement project)