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Paul Chanin: an internationally known mammal ecologist with
extensive experience in consultancy, surveys, training and research.
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Today, most of my work is as a
specialist ecological consultant, mainly working with otters, badgers and
dormice. I have over thirty five year's experience,
first as a lecturer at Exeter University and for the last twelve years as an
independent mammal ecologist.
This experience is a great asset to clients and I increasingly take on
unusual and difficult projects. This can lead to considerable savings, on one
occasion a seven figure sum, where less knowledgeable ecologists had come
across an apparently insurmountable obstacle.
Having been involved in the design of the 'standard' method for otter
surveying in the 1970s, I have long had an interest in survey techniques and
have devised approaches to a number of situations and species, including
otter surveying in Special Areas for Conservation for the Environment Agency
and English Nature and survey methods for red squirrels and pine marten on a
very large infrastructure project in Ireland.
I am available for advice and survey work on a wide range of mammals, at all
stages leading up to the submission of licence applications for protected
species and overseeing their implementation. Also for guiding and mentoring
less experienced ecologists through this process.
My twenty four years as an adult education lecturer has also been beneficial
and I regularly deliver bespoke courses on protected mammals for large
international companies as well as annual courses at Slapton
Ley Field Centre and Bath Spa University.
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