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Bat Awareness Training for Arborists
This important professional development training is offered by the Bat Conservation Trust (BCT), supported by the Arboricultural Association and accredited by Lantra as the Sector Skills Council for the environmental and land-based sector.
This extremely useful training day has now been running at centres across the UK for over two years; its value and importance as part of arboricultural continued professional development (CPD) has never been greater, with recent legislation changes making it essential that arborists take full consideration of the habitat value of trees as roost sites for bats.
This informative one-day course is aimed at arborists who carry out or manage tree works to ensure that they do not disturb or destroy a bat or bat roost. This Lantra Awards recognised training is accepted as a minimum requirement for iclusion in the Arboricultural Association's approved contractor scheme with an attendance certificate issued to fulfill CPD requirements. The course aims to provide arborists with:-
* sufficient knowledge to allow them to carry out tree works with
consideration of the potential effects on bats and their habitats;
* recognised training that will contribute significantly in minimising the
threat to bat populations, whils ensuring arborists are fully aware of
the implications and requirements of the current statute legislation,
which affords protection to bats and their roosts (including
protected species licensing);
* a basic, systematic and consistent method for visually examining
trees for potential bat roost presence;
* a methodology which alerts the relevant Statutory Nature
Conservation Organisation (SNCO) to the risk of disturbance at the
earliest state possible;
* a procedure for bat care and securing assistance from appropriate
specialists should an accident occur and bats or bat roosts are
disturbed during tree works.
* sufficient knowledge to allow them to carry out tree works with
consideration of the potential effects on bats and their habitats;
* recognised training that will contribute significantly in minimising the
threat to bat populations, whils ensuring arborists are fully aware of
the implications and requirements of the current statute legislation,
which affords protection to bats and their roosts (including
protected species licensing);
* a basic, systematic and consistent method for visually examining
trees for potential bat roost presence;
* a methodology which alerts the relevant Statutory Nature
Conservation Organisation (SNCO) to the risk of disturbance at the
earliest state possible;
* a procedure for bat care and securing assistance from appropriate
specialists should an accident occur and bats or bat roosts are
disturbed during tree works.
The intensive day of awareness training aims to inform arborists and thos managing tree works, by providing them with sufficient background knowledge and understanding of bat ecology that they will be able to: ............
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