News & Views

The annual Welsh Ringing Course was run over the long weekend of 29 August to 1 September 2024. The field elements of the course, including site preparation work, landowner liaison, health and safety and daily logistical planning were co-ordinated for the ninth time by BSG Ecology Director and Gower Ringing Group member Owain Gabb.
To celebrate ongoing success, our Welsh team recently got together to do a bioblitz of land at Furzehill, near Lunnon, Gower.  The site is owned by the Ecological Land Co-operative (ELC) who assist people in starting up small-scale ecologically sensitive farming enterprises.
BSG Ecology recently attended the careers fair at Oxford Spires Academy, a secondary school in East Oxford.  With the development of a forthcoming GCSE in Natural History this seemed a good opportunity to showcase to students in Years 7-12 the opportunities that a career in ecology can offer.
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.
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?
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.