Ben Garnett

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About Ben Garnett

Ben is an Associate Director with GE Consulting, experienced in conducting and supervising a wide range of habitat and protected species surveys including badgers, dormouse, birds, bats, water voles, great crested newts, reptiles and otters. He is a mammalogist with specialist expertise in bats, badger and dormouse, and holds Natural England class licences for badger, bats, dormouse and barn owl. He also has Institute of Fisheries Management training in electrofishing.Ben is a national badger expert, with specialist expertise in badger surveys (including sett and territorial bait-marking surveys), artificial sett construction, radiotracking, camera surveillance and badger translocation. He has to date published six scientific papers on badger ecology. For his DPhil, Ben intensively radiotracked study pairs of tuberculous and uninfected badgers, and compared their home range use, territoriality, habitat selection, ectoparasite loads, and use of cattle farm buildings and feed troughs. Ben has over 18 years experience of conducting and analyzing bat surveys, including the programming of remote bat detectors such as Anabats and Song Meters, and analysis of sonograms using Sonobat, Batscan, Kaleidoscope and Analook software. With colleagues at SLR he used Analook software to develop filters for UK, Canadian and Maltese bat species, which have enabled the efficient analysis of many thousands of bat sound files recorded at proposed/monitored wind farm and mining sites. He has excellent survey and report-writing skills.