News & Views

In June 2025, ecologists from our Newcastle team attended a training day with specialist botanical surveyor Julia Quiñonez of Verde Ecology, who led a session on the botany of grasses, sedges, rushes, and horsetails in County Durham. The training was aimed at helping the team improve their ability to identify some of the more uncommon species.
03 July, 2025
BSG Ecology became a 100% employee-owned business at the beginning of 2024. The move to employee ownership is a step to securing the company’s long-term independent future. So - what has changed over the last year?
05 June, 2025
BSG Ecology is delighted to announce the promotion of Claire Dewson and Guy Miller to Associate Director and Dr Tom Flynn and Dr Jim Fairclough to Technical Director.
15 May, 2025
BSG Ecology is thrilled to have been short-listed for three prestigious Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management (CIEEM) awards: Medium Consultancy of the Year, Best Practice in Knowledge Sharing and Best Practice in Innovation. To be short-listed in three categories bears testimony to the collaborative efforts of our people in driving high standards and is a great reflection of a wonderful team.
03 April, 2025
During March 2025 four of BSG Ecology’s Welsh team completed basic training in off road driving. The aim of training was to equip the team with the skills and confidence to drive off road in the mild to moderate terrain that typifies many of the upland sites we work on.
20 March, 2025
Earlier this year Ecologists from our Derbyshire and Newcastle offices visited a long-running BSG Ecology project in northern England to undertake bat hibernation training alongside commissioned survey work. The Site is a former slate quarry, which includes several underground quarried voids, forming large and complex caverns. Previous work has recorded six species of bat hibernating at the caverns.
14 March, 2025
In February, BSG Ecologist’s Joe Bishop and Susie Topple delivered a presentation to third-year Animal Behaviour and Biology students at Oxford Brookes University. BSG Ecology contributes annually to this course as one of a series of guest lectures by external speakers from across the spectrum of environmental consultancy.
06 March, 2025