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A focused, ethical consultancy offer — built around BNG that surpasses the statutory minimum, ecological services (protected species, HMMPs, baseline ecology), research & site-protection assessments (CHSA, CHA, lit reviews, bespoke research questions), ecologically informed reporting, organic pest control, K9-led detection, selective breeding advisory and invasive species management.
Request a quote
All quote requests are handled by email. Send your brief to evolutionaryecology@outlook.com and we will reply with a fixed quote, timeline and team within 2–3 working days.
- Your full name and organisation (if any)
- Service area — Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG), Ecology & baseline surveys, Research & site-protection (CHSA / CHA / lit reviews), Gardening & landscaping, Conservation & selective breeding, Social / community consultation, Staff placement & embedded specialists, GIS / statistical analysis, or other / not sure
- Site location / region (e.g. Wiltshire, UK or Riyadh, KSA)
- Timeline (e.g. planning submission in Q3 2026)
- Project brief — site boundary or size, legal driver (planning, IFC, BNG), key species or habitats, and what you need from us
- Billing contact and, if a company, VAT / company number
Once we've scoped the brief we reply with a fixed-price quote, timeline and team. On your go-ahead we issue a secure pay-by-email invoice — card, bank transfer or PayPal, all from your inbox.
Biodiversity Net Gain
BNG consultancy & advisory — aiming for 20% & 60 years
We tailor every BNG package to surpass the statutory 10% uplift and 30-year minimum — aiming for 20% net gain and 60 years of longevity wherever the site can carry it. Pricing stays the same as if you were only aiming for the statutory minimum: you get the ambition without the premium.
BNG consultancy & advice
Strategy, metric interpretation, net-gain options appraisal and planning-condition support. We do not sell protected species licensing as a stand-alone product — only consultancy & advice around it.
From £600 (same price as a 10% / 30-year package)
Native plant & seed packages
Site-specific native plant and seed mixes selected to deliver measurable net gain — pollinator, hedgerow, chalk grassland, saline lagoon and native woodland mixes. Sourced from reputable UK / MENA native nurseries. See the full BNG native plants & seeds shop page for unit pricing (50% mark-up on bulk NGO / trusted-supplier prices, including bluebells, Lent lily daffodils, native tree and shrub whips, peatland specialists and native pond plants).
From £85 / 0.25 ha
Literature reviews for BNG
Evidence reviews to back up your chosen habitat creation and management regime — a defensible paper trail for LPAs and auditors.
From £350
Baseline ecology for BNG
UKHab baseline walk-overs, condition assessment and metric-ready data capture — the foundation every BNG project needs before design begins.
From £450
HMMPs & long-term monitoring
Habitat Management & Monitoring Plans written around the 60-year longevity horizon — not the 30-year minimum — and scheduled monitoring visits against agreed metrics.
From £500
Protected species licensing (advisory only)
Consultancy and advice on licence routing and supporting evidence — EPS, low-impact, organisational class and derogation advice. Field licensing delivery: coming soon.
From £250 (advice)
Ecological services
Ecological services — protected species, HMMPs, baseline ecology & more
The core ecological consultancy toolkit — delivered on their own, outside of a BNG scheme. Use these where a project needs planning-grade ecology but isn't being scoped as a full BNG package.
Baseline ecology surveys
Walk-over characterisation of a site's habitats, species and ecological features — UKHab / Phase 1 mapping, target notes, condition scoring and photographic evidence. The foundation for any planning application, impact assessment or restoration design.
From £450
Protected species surveys & advisory
Bats, great crested newts, reptiles, breeding birds, barn owls, dormice, otter, water vole, badger and protected plant species — presence/likely-absence, activity and roost/sett characterisation. Licensing advice delivered in parallel; field licensing delivery: coming soon.
From £350 per species group
HMMPs (generic, non-BNG)
Standalone Habitat Management & Monitoring Plans for landowners, estates, reserves and restoration schemes that sit outside a BNG process — objectives, prescriptions, monitoring intervals and adaptive management triggers.
From £500
Preliminary Ecological Appraisal (PEA)
CIEEM-aligned PEA reports combining a desk study and extended Phase 1 walk-over — the standard starting point for planning-stage ecology on most small and medium projects.
From £550
Ecological Impact Assessment (EcIA)
Full CIEEM-methodology EcIAs for standalone planning submissions and as technical chapters of ESIAs / EIAs — receptor importance, magnitude of effect, significance and mitigation hierarchy.
From £950
Habitat condition & UKHab surveys
Detailed UKHab classification and condition assessment against the statutory criteria — useful for site registration, estate management planning or as an input to any later BNG exercise.
From £400
Ecological Clerk of Works (ECoW)
On-site ecological supervision during vegetation clearance, construction and sensitive works — tool-box talks, pre-start sweeps, method statement oversight and incident reporting.
From £350 / day
General ecological consultancy & advice
Ad-hoc ecological advice for landowners, architects, councils and NGOs — scoping calls, planning-condition interpretation, expert witness input and second opinions on other consultants' work.
From £70 / hour
Camera & eDNA analysis
Camera-trap analysis, photo ID & eDNA
Remote-friendly laboratory and desk services we deliver for clients worldwide — UK, MENA and globally. You send us the footage, photos or samples and we return a structured dataset you can actually use.
Bat emergence & re-entry counts
We analyse your camera-trap footage from dusk and dawn to return accurate bat emergence and re-entry counts — time-stamped, split by exit point and confidence-scored. Ideal where licensed on-site surveyors aren't available but camera coverage is.
From £85 / roost / night
Species identification from photo & camera-trap data
Send us your raw camera-trap images or photo sets and we will ID species, age class and (where possible) sex, returning a clean catalogue with notes on behaviour and capture conditions.
From £0.35 / image bundle (volume discount)
eDNA — water samples
Environmental DNA analysis of water samples to detect target species — great crested newts, fish, crayfish and more. Collection kits, transport protocol and lab analysis. Launching 2026.
Register interest
eDNA & agronomy — soil samples
Soil sample analysis for salinity, pH and eDNA markers — useful for restoration planning, agricultural diversification advisory and habitat-creation feasibility. Launching 2026.
Register interest
Research
Research, surveys & assessments for site protection
Science-led surveys and assessments commissioned to answer a clear question — usually “should this site be afforded protection, or more protection than it currently has?” Outputs are designed to stand up to peer review, regulators, funders and PS6 lenders — not just to tick a planning box.
Site protection assessments
Evidence-led assessments to determine whether a site warrants designation or an upgrade to its existing designation — e.g. SSSI / SAC / SPA / Ramsar candidacy in the UK, Key Biodiversity Area (KBA), Important Bird & Biodiversity Area (IBA) and Alliance for Zero Extinction (AZE) screening internationally, plus local nature reserve, LWS and privately-protected-area evaluations.
From £1,200
Ecological baseline surveys (research grade)
Baseline surveys scoped for research — not just planning. Habitats, species, communities and abiotic context characterised to a standard that supports hypothesis testing, trend detection and long-term monitoring. Methodology is pre-registered before field-work starts.
From £650
Critical Habitat Screening Assessment (CHSA)
IFC Performance Standard 6 Tier 1 / Tier 2 screening using best available range, threat and listing data — a desk-based first pass that tells lenders and developers whether a full CHA is triggered, and at what confidence level.
From £950
Full Critical Habitat Assessment (CHA)
Full PS6 Critical Habitat Assessment when the CHSA flags potential critical habitat — species-level thresholds (Tier 1/2 triggers), discrete management unit delineation, biodiversity value mapping, residual impact evaluation and net-gain strategy aligned to lender expectations.
From £3,500
Topic-specific literature reviews
Scoping reviews, rapid evidence assessments and full systematic reviews on a defined topic — e.g. striped hyena denning ecology, hoopoe nest-site selection in arid MENA cities, house sparrow urban declines, chalk grassland restoration, peatland rewetting, mangrove carbon, rodenticide secondary poisoning, K9-detection reliability, IAS impact pathways, de-extinction selective breeding.
From £450
Specific research questions
Client-defined research questions scoped, designed and delivered end-to-end — from hypothesis and sampling design through field-work, analysis and reporting. Examples: does this site hold a globally important population? Is the declining sub-population behaviourally / sub-specifically distinct? What is the population viability under management scenario X? Suitable for NGOs, estates, regulators and academic collaborators.
From £1,500 (scoping phase)
Citation & reference service
Peer-reviewed reference lists for researchers & educators
A dedicated citation and reference service for researchers, students, academics, educators, lecturers, consultancies, NGOs, councils and organisations. For £25 we collect, collate and briefly describe 20 peer-reviewed references on a defined topic — or, for the same price, an exhaustive list when 20 isn't enough. Available as a consultancy service and as a shop product.
20 peer-reviewed references
Give us your topic or research question — e.g. “bat roost retention in retrofit construction”, “hoopoe urban nest-site selection”, “chalk-grassland pollinator restoration” — and we return a collated list of 20 peer-reviewed references, each with a short description of what the paper covers and why it is relevant. References are checked for accuracy and understood by our team before delivery so they can be used with confidence.
£25 flat
Exhaustive reference list
For narrower or more specialised topics where 20 references would miss important work, we deliver an exhaustive list — every credible peer-reviewed paper we can find on the question, described and collated in the same format. Same flat fee.
£25 flat
Checked, understood, not ghost-written
Every reference is checked and understood by our team so you can cite it accurately, effectively and with integrity. Important: this service helps you find and understand the literature — it is not us doing your work for you. The thinking, writing and synthesis is yours.
Included · £25 flat
Researchers, students, academics & more
Designed for researchers, students, academics, educators, lecturers, organisations, consultancies, NGOs, councils and anyone else who needs a trustworthy entry point into the peer-reviewed literature on an ecological / environmental topic.
Included · £25 flat
Reports, reviews & plans
CEMP, ESIA review & literature services
Technical writing, review and independent QA for projects of any scale — in-region or delivered remotely from our consultants worldwide.
CEMP authorship
Construction Environmental Management Plans (CEMPs) written around project-specific ecology, biosecurity, invasive species, pollution, noise and lighting controls — aligned to planning conditions.
From £650
ESIA / EIA third-party report review
Independent technical review of ESIAs, EIAs and supporting chapters produced by other consultancies — red-team read-throughs, evidence gap analysis and compliance checks.
From £450
Literature reviews by third parties
Independent reviews of literature reviews authored by other consultancies or academic contributors — methodology, bias, coverage and quality scoring.
From £350
Ecological reports
Technical writing for landowners, councils, NGOs and funders — from baseline characterisation through monitoring syntheses and scientific publication.
From £150
Habitat creation
Habitat creation & construction
Not just bird boxes — we design and build full habitat structures for species that need more than off-the-shelf solutions. Delivered as construction services with ecological input from brief to handover.
Barn owl turrets & barns
Free-standing turrets and traditional barn conversions designed around barn owl ecology — low disturbance access, internal ledges, prey flight-lines and pellet collection points.
From £3,200
Bat barns
Purpose-built bat barns for maternity roosts and hibernation — crevice stacks, warm lofts and gravity-access flight gaps, designed for UK and MENA species.
From £4,800
Large ponds with native plant schemes
Design and construction of large-format wildlife ponds with staged native planting — marginal, submerged and floating species selected to deliver BNG metrics and stable amphibian populations.
From £2,400
House sparrow barns
Sparrow-centric farmstead / suburban barns with integrated colony cavities, insect-supporting courtyards and feed scatter zones.
From £2,800
Swift & swallow barns
Purpose-built barns modelled on traditional open-eaved structures — swift cavity clusters, swallow mud-ledges and safe low-flight zones.
From £3,400
Fox dens
Artificial fox dens that integrate with boundary features — useful for mitigation, relocation or supporting urban fox populations in ecologically planned schemes.
From £650
Badger dens
Artificial setts designed around UK badger licensing requirements — multiple chambers, ventilation, long-axis tunnel routing and safe-exit back-runs.
From £1,400
Rabbit warrens
Artificial rabbit warrens to underpin grazing-dependent habitats and to supply keystone prey for raptors, mustelids and foxes.
From £480
Ecosystem engineers · translocation consultancy
Ecosystem engineers — mosses, ants & sphagnum
Ecosystem engineers drive the physical, chemical and biological structure of entire habitats — translocating them responsibly is one of the fastest ways to accelerate ecosystem recovery. We scope donor-site licensing, receptor-site preparation, translocation itself and post-translocation monitoring, and we supply the species through our shop page. UK-native species only, from trusted ethical suppliers that avoid non-natives.
Native moss translocation (consultancy + supply)
Feather and cushion mosses (Hypnum cupressiforme, Pleurozium schreberi, Leucobryum glaucum, Polytrichum commune) for woodland, heath and wall-top restoration. Supply from £34 per plug tray at a 50% mark-up on bulk supplier prices; consultancy on receptor-site selection and BNG uplift claims priced per site.
Consultancy from £450 · supply from £34 / tray
Native ant translocation (consultancy + supply)
UK-native ant colonies — yellow meadow ant (Lasius flavus, grassland mound-builder), red wood ant (Formica rufa, BAP species), black garden ant (Lasius niger). Supply is restricted to genuine translocation / restoration contexts — we do not sell colonies without a receptor-site review. Supply 50% mark-up on trusted ethical suppliers.
Consultancy from £550 · colonies from £110
Sphagnum moss for peatland restoration
UK-native sphagnum (S. capillifolium, S. papillosum, S. fallax, S. magellanicum) for active raised-bog, blanket-bog and cutover peatland restoration. Supplied as a premium line at 75% mark-up on NGO prices — restoration-grade, cold-chain-handled, species-sorted. Consultancy covers hydrology restoration, species-mix design and post-planting monitoring.
Consultancy from £1,200 · sphagnum from £160 / 50 plugs · ha-scale POA
Receptor-site preparation & monitoring
Receptor-site condition surveys, substrate & hydrology prep, translocation-day ecologist attendance, first-year monitoring and BNG-metric uplift writeups for any of the species above.
From £650 / site
Wildlife-permeable fencing · ecology service
Wildlife-permeable fencing (premium, sustainable)
A dedicated fencing service designed around dispersal underneath — boundary fencing that still does its job above the sward (stock-proof, security, deer-exclusion, boundary) while letting hedgehogs, toads, newts, grass snakes, water voles and small mustelids move freely at ground level. Delivered in FSC-certified sustainable timber, recycled steel and reclaimed stone — never creosote, never pressure-treated softwood, never PVC-coated wire.
FSC timber post & rail with dispersal gaps
Oak / sweet chestnut post-and-rail boundary fencing with 13 cm × 13 cm hedgehog-highway holes at regular intervals — sited using ecologist-identified movement corridors, not at random.
From £78 / m installed
Sweet chestnut paling with continuous lift gap
Traditional paling on FSC sweet chestnut, fitted with a continuous low lift gap so hedgehogs, toads and reptiles can pass underneath while the fence still screens a boundary.
From £95 / m installed
Steel / timber hybrid — dormouse & otter permeable
Recycled-steel mesh insert with FSC timber frame — specified so dormice can move through canopy-linked sections and otters can use under-run culverts where the line crosses a watercourse.
From £110 / m installed
Deer fence with badger & otter gates
1.8 m deer fencing on FSC timber posts with badger-gate and otter-gate inserts at surveyed crossing points. Designed to keep a deer-exclusion zone viable without blocking protected-species dispersal.
From £135 / m installed
Fencing ecology survey & corridor design
Before we install, we walk the boundary, map mammal / amphibian / reptile crossings and design the dispersal-hole spacing and gate siting around actual use. Delivered as a short report plus installer instructions.
From £480 / site
Retrofit — hedgehog highways into existing fencing
Retrofit 13 cm × 13 cm dispersal holes into existing fencing, install matching holes through neighbouring fences where homeowners agree, and record the network on a hedgehog-highway map.
From £28 / hole
Ethical pest control and deterrence
Organic & ethical pest control and deterrence
Immediate, non-toxic control and longer-term deterrence that does not poison the wider ecosystem — the alternative to rodenticides, anticoagulants and indiscriminate trapping.
Ferreting
Traditional ferreting using trained ferrets (and supporting dogs) to flush and dispatch rabbit and rat populations in a single visit — immediate, non-chemical, fully traceable and humane.
From £220 / visit
Working dogs for pest control
Trained dogs for rodent, grey squirrel and invasive mammal control — zero rodenticide load, no secondary poisoning of owls and raptors.
From £280 / visit
Livestock guardian dogs
Livestock guardian dogs placed on farms, smallholdings and rewilded estates to deter foxes, badgers, raptors and large carnivores from stock — non-lethal, 24/7, and coupled with handler training and ongoing welfare oversight. Specific breed and bloodline are matched to the placement after a site visit.
Pedigree lines available across every tier above for an additional £5,000.
Protection & guard dogs for homes
Personal protection and guard dogs for private residences, with extensive obedience, threat-assessment and bite-work training to a professional standard. Each placement includes handler tuition, a structured handover and ongoing welfare oversight.
From £40,000
Organic garden & landscape pest control
Biological, mechanical and cultural controls for slugs, aphids, rats and invasive plants — integrated with our ecologically informed organic gardening service.
From £120 / visit
Invasive species eradication
Physical and mechanical eradication of invasive plants and non-native mammals — see our dedicated invasive species section below.
From £350 / site
K9 surveys
K9-led ecological surveys
Separate to our pest-control working-dog service. Here, trained detection and tracking dogs are used alongside our ecologists to pick up what human surveyors miss — for more comprehensive, more reliable findings.
Scat & track detection
Detection dogs trained to locate scat, kills, fur, feathers and tracks for species such as otter, pine marten, hedgehog and reptiles — significantly higher detection rates than visual searches alone.
From £420 / day
Roost & burrow finding
Specialised dogs to locate bat roosts, badger setts, reptile hibernacula and small mammal burrows in complex vegetation.
From £480 / day
Invasive species detection
Dogs trained on target invasive mammals and plants — used in early detection and rapid-response eradication contexts.
From £450 / day
Gap-fill surveys
Deployed after human-led surveys to catch missed signs — our clients routinely see additional species records and critical evidence come out of a K9 re-sweep.
From £380 / day
Selective breeding
Selective breeding programmes
Consultancy, advice, best-practice frameworks, progress tracking and data collection to inform decision-making across four programme types. We do not sell livestock — we help design, track and continuously improve your breeding programme.
1. De-extinction
Programme design and advisory for de-extinction breeding efforts using extant close relatives and convergent analogues — selection strategies, pedigree design and progress tracking.
From £2,400 / programme
2. Livestock & permaculture/horticulture
Selective breeding advisory for heritage livestock, permaculture livestock integrations and horticultural cultivar development — with particular focus on resilience, productivity and ecological fit.
From £750 / programme
3. Zoological collections
Breeding programme advisory for safaris and zoological collections — aiming to increase fitness, reduce inbreeding and improve the chances of successful reintroductions.
From £1,400 / programme
4. Miscellaneous & recreational
Recreational pigeon breeding, koi breeding and similar hobby programmes — we supply the same consultancy, record-keeping and data-tracking rigour as for professional programmes.
From £320 / programme
Invasive species
Invasive & alien species services
Dedicated invasive species work — strategy, plans, surveys and physical eradication. Cross-links with our ethical pest control offer where non-toxic eradication is appropriate.
Invasive species consultancy
Strategy and advice for landowners, councils and NGOs on how to manage Invasive Alien Species (IAS) within their portfolio.
From £550
IAS action plans
Formal Invasive Alien Species Action Plans (IASAPs) tailored to site, region and legislative driver — including biosecurity protocols.
From £1,200
Invasive species literature reviews
Scoping and systematic literature reviews on the ecology, impact and best-practice management of your target invasive species.
From £450
Invasive species surveys
Baseline and monitoring surveys to map extent and density of invasive populations — plant and animal, aquatic and terrestrial.
From £480
Eradication & control
Physical, mechanical and ecological eradication — linked to our ethical pest control offer where ferrets, dogs and manual methods are appropriate.
From £350 / site
Gardening & landscaping
Ecologically informed organic gardening & landscaping
Gardens and landscapes designed around ecological principles — native planting, pollinator corridors, wet features, organic soil management and habitat connectivity. Every job is delivered with a strictly eco and environmentally friendly approach: no synthetic herbicides, no chemical weed-killers, no pressure-treated timber, and wood specified as FSC-certified sustainable with non-toxic natural treatments (linseed / tung / plant-wax finishes) wherever it goes outdoors.
Residential gardens
Private garden designs that support wildlife without sacrificing aesthetics — native plant palettes, wet features, nest habitat and organic maintenance plans.
From £450 / design
Gardens tailored to attract specific species
For homeowners who want to attract a particular species or build a specific microhabitat — we design for the microhabitat, habitat elements and niches that species needs, from solitary-bee banks and hedgehog corridors to hoopoe foraging lawns and swift nesting arrays.
From £550 / design
Commercial & public landscaping
Landscaping for offices, schools, universities and public realm — blending amenity with ecological function, BNG delivery and pollinator networks.
From £1,200
Wildlife ponds & wet features
From small garden ponds up to landscape-scale wetland creation — native planting, liner specification and long-term maintenance.
From £650
Organic maintenance
Ongoing maintenance plans using organic, low-input and no-spray methods — compatible with pollinator pledges and pesticide-free policies.
From £45 / hour
Non-toxic weed eradication
Weed control without glyphosate or synthetic herbicides — manual removal, sheet mulching, flame weeding, hot-foam treatment and targeted vinegar / saturated-salt applications on hard surfaces only. Safe around pollinators, pets and children; safe for soil biology; safe for nearby ponds.
From £35 / hour · patio / drive from £120
Pond cleaning & pressure washing
Pond silt & algae clearance using mechanical methods and biological balancing — no algaecides or biocides. Pressure washing of patios, decking, paths and walls using cold water only; no detergents and no run-off into wildlife features. Includes wildlife-safe drawdown and return of amphibians / invertebrates to the cleaned pond.
Pond clean from £180 · Pressure wash from £120
Bird feeding stations & bird baths
Installation of purpose-sited bird feeding stations and bird baths — predator-safe positioning, mixed feeder types (seed, fat, niger, ground), hygiene rotation and an initial month of seed. Great for matched-pair volunteer visits (see the Liverpool social charity) and for homeowners who want to watch garden birds from the kitchen window.
Station & first seed from £95 · Bird bath from £65
Benches, sheds & garden structures
Where possible, we build benches, sheds, planters, raised beds, compost bays and arbours in FSC-certified sustainable timber finished with non-toxic treatments (raw linseed oil, tung oil, plant-wax finishes) — never creosote, never copper-chromated pressure-treated wood. Built on site or delivered flat-pack.
Bench from £240 · Shed from £1,100
Pollinator-friendly & native planting schemes
Planting schemes built around pollinator-friendly species and often-native species that are genuinely great for local biodiversity — providing nectar, pollen, seed, cover and larval host-plants across the full season. Includes plant-by-plant placement plan and a year-one care note.
From £180 / scheme (design) · plants priced separately
Pond planting schemes
Dedicated pond planting schemes — marginals, submerged oxygenators and floating species, selected for UK-native status (or region-native in MENA) and for the ecological function you want: clarity, amphibian cover, dragonfly perches, bird-safe edges.
From £140 / scheme
Bird & bat box installation
Putting up bird and bat boxes on houses, trees, sheds and poles — correct aspect, height and mounting for the target species, using fixings that do not damage trees. Boxes supplied from our bird & bat box shop or client-supplied.
From £45 per box (installed) · boxes from our shop
Hedgehog schemes
End-to-end hedgehog-friendly garden packages — hedgehog houses in sheltered corners, 13 cm×13 cm boundary holes between neighbouring gardens ("hedgehog highways"), log piles, feeding stations, shallow ramped water bowls and briefings for the household on autumn checks & safe mowing.
From £180 / garden
Compost heap / bay creation
Compost bay construction in FSC sustainable wood with non-toxic finish — single, double or triple-bay layouts, or a single open heap. Includes a short briefing on greens & browns, aeration, moisture and where to site so it benefits rather than attracts unwanted visitors.
Single bay from £180 · Triple-bay system from £420
Zoological & veterinary
Zoological collections, safaris & veterinary services
For zoos, safari parks, rescue centres, breeding programmes and farms — we supply the ecological, behavioural and veterinary specialism that keeps welfare high and conservation outcomes real.
Environmental enrichment
Species-specific enrichment programmes — cognitive, sensory, feeding, structural and social — evaluated against welfare KPIs rather than novelty for its own sake.
From £450 per species programme
Rehabilitation
Design and oversight of wildlife rehabilitation pathways — intake triage, housing progression, pre-release conditioning and post-release monitoring protocols.
From £550
Enclosure design for natural behaviour
Enclosure design and review focused on eliciting natural behaviours — space use, substrate, climbing / digging / wallowing opportunities, social group composition, sight-lines and refuge provision.
From £950 per enclosure
Reintroduction & soft release
End-to-end reintroduction project design including soft release strategies — acclimatisation pens, staged access, supplementary feeding protocols, telemetry plans and exit criteria.
From £1,800 (design phase)
Behaviour & ethology observers
Trained animal-behaviour / ethology observers placed on site to monitor welfare and evidence best-practice compliance — ethograms, activity budgets, abnormal behaviour indices and welfare scoring.
From £320 / day
ZIMS data input for zoos
Zoos send us their observations and husbandry records and we upload, tidy and maintain them in ZIMS (Species360) — keeping records audit-ready without tying up keeper time.
From £180 / month per collection
Veterinary services — farms
Veterinary support for farms — herd/flock health planning, biosecurity, welfare audits, vaccination strategy and liaison with local official veterinarians.
From £150 / visit
Veterinary services — zoological
Veterinary input as part of our zoological service bundle — preventive health, quarantine protocols, anaesthesia & handling advisory and tie-in with the behaviour observer programme.
From £220 / visit
Wildlife crime
Wildlife crime consultancy & investigations
A dedicated wildlife crime offer — regional and international. We support enforcement agencies, NGOs, estates and private clients across advisory, investigative and educational work.
Legislation & penalties consultancy
Region-specific (UK / UAE / KSA / MENA / international) consultancy and advice on the relevant wildlife-protection legislation, CITES obligations and the penalties associated with offences — tailored for enforcement teams, NGOs, estates and private clients.
From £250 / briefing
Investigations support
Desk-based and remote investigative support — evidence triage, open-source intelligence, trade-route mapping, species ID from photo / camera evidence and witness-statement review to back an official enforcement case.
From £950
Education & awareness
Wildlife-crime awareness training for councils, rangers, border-force liaison units, schools and general audiences — tailored content, case studies and reporting-pathway guidance.
From £380 / session
Compliance & legal-regulation consultancy
Compliance advice for organisations that risk being drawn into wildlife-crime exposure through supply chain, transport, hospitality or research activities — gap assessments, policy drafting and staff guidance.
From £650
Best-practice advisory
Regional & international best-practice consultancy
A separate stream from wildlife crime — focused on embedding ecological and environmental best practice inside organisations, estates and projects, both regionally and internationally.
Best-practice consultancy
Structured advisory engagements to align your operations with the best regional and international ecological / environmental standards — gap analysis, roadmap, and audit-ready documentation.
From £750
Education & awareness
In-house training and awareness programmes — workshops, e-learning scripts and leadership briefings — targeted at the specific standards that matter for your region and sector.
From £350 / session
Compliance consultancy
Compliance assessments against sector-specific best-practice frameworks (PS6, IUCN, CIEEM, regional equivalents) with remediation plans and evidence packs.
From £650
Columnist & journalism
Environmental journalism, columns & educational materials
A strictly environmental journalism offer — for clients who need credible, ecologically literate writing for public, academic or educational audiences.
Newsletters
Ghost-written or co-authored newsletters for NGOs, estates, councils and businesses — monthly or quarterly cadences with clean HTML, plain-text fallbacks and image sourcing.
From £220 / issue
Blog & newspaper articles
Feature and opinion articles for blogs, trade press and national newspapers — pitched, written and (where appropriate) placed. Strictly environmental topics only.
From £180 / article
Educational materials
Curriculum-aligned lesson plans, worksheets, explainer decks and short videos for schools, universities and public-engagement programmes.
From £280 / unit
Biodiversity consultancy
Biodiversity uplift — measuring and increasing biodiversity on your land
A dedicated biodiversity stream for businesses — specifically biodiversity, not general sustainability. We measure the biodiversity actually present on a company's land and design, deliver and monitor the mitigating and enhancing actions that increase it. Output is the real-world change in species richness, abundance and habitat quality that sits on the ground after the work is done — not a desk-based ESG score.
This sits alongside our BNG work but is scoped differently: BNG is a statutory UK planning mechanism for a specific development; biodiversity consultancy is a standing business service for any organisation (single site, multi-site portfolio or international footprint) that wants to move the needle on biodiversity through everything it does — operational mitigation, site enhancement, supply chain, land acquisition and disposal.
Biodiversity baseline assessment
Full baseline of what is actually on your land: habitat mapping (UKHab / equivalent), targeted species surveys, on-the-ground structural and botanical condition assessments, and a transparent biodiversity unit / metric score per site. The starting-point that every later mitigation or enhancement claim is measured against.
From £1,800 per site
Biodiversity strategy & action plan
A company-wide Biodiversity Action Plan with measurable targets (net-positive biodiversity, no net loss, species-specific recovery targets), aligned to the mitigation hierarchy — avoid, minimise, restore, offset — and to emerging frameworks (TNFD, SBTN, GRI 304, CSRD). Includes board-level narrative, KPI framework and annual reporting template.
From £4,200 per organisation
Mitigating-action design & delivery
For the biodiversity impact your organisation cannot avoid: scoped mitigation design that walks the hierarchy in order — minimise first, restore next, offset only as a last resort. Covers operational changes (lighting, noise, water, chemical use, timing of works) and landscape-scale mitigations across owned and leased land.
From £2,400 per site package
Biodiversity enhancement design
Site-level and portfolio-level designs that increase biodiversity beyond what was there: native planting schemes targeted at the species that most need lift locally, habitat-element additions (ponds, deadwood, nesting features, burrow networks), connectivity corridors, and designed microhabitats/niches. Every enhancement is tied back to the baseline so the uplift can be measured.
From £2,800 per site
Biodiversity monitoring & reporting
Ongoing measurement of the biodiversity effect of your mitigating and enhancing actions — annual re-surveys, camera-trap / acoustic monitoring, eDNA (coming soon), unit-score tracking and a plain-English annual report. This is how you prove the actions actually worked, year on year.
From £1,600 / site / year
Multi-site portfolio biodiversity review
For organisations with multiple operational sites (landed estates, industrial portfolios, retail chains, renewables developers), a portfolio-level review that ranks every site by biodiversity risk and biodiversity opportunity, and prioritises mitigation and enhancement budget accordingly.
From £6,500 per portfolio
TNFD / SBTN / CSRD biodiversity support
Structured support for the biodiversity-specific parts of nature-related financial disclosures: TNFD LEAP assessments, SBTN target-setting, CSRD ESRS E4 (Biodiversity & Ecosystems) reporting and GRI 304. We prepare the biodiversity data; your finance / sustainability team sign it off.
From £3,600 per disclosure
Biodiversity training for in-house teams
Training workshops and standing capacity-building for client land-management, ESG, procurement and project teams so biodiversity thinking is applied before decisions are made, not bolted on afterwards.
From £650 per workshop
Within-organisation sustainability consultancy
Sustainability consultancy within your organisation — social & environmental
A dedicated within-organisation sustainability consultancy for corporates, NGOs, public bodies and larger organisations. We work inside your organisation on both social and environmental sustainability — operations, culture, policy, supply chain and reporting — so sustainability is a way of running the business, not a side project. This stream is separate from talent acquisition and embedded specialists: here we are consulting, not hiring or placing staff (though any stream can be combined with an embedded specialist if continuous capacity is needed).
Sustainable Organisation accreditation
We accredit organisations that are actively working toward the SDGs, with a rigorous evidence-based framework and an annual re-audit. Accredited clients get a usable mark, a public listing and a structured improvement plan.
From £1,400 / year
Environmental sustainability consultancy
Within-organisation environmental work: operational footprint reduction, energy, water, waste, procurement, travel policy, office & estates management, supplier standards, carbon baselines and reduction plans, and environmental policy drafting.
From £2,200 per programme
Social sustainability consultancy
Within-organisation social work: wellbeing & mental health, inclusion & fair-work, community impact, modern-slavery and supply-chain human-rights due diligence, stakeholder engagement inside the organisation, policy drafting and staff-led SDG programmes.
From £2,200 per programme
Sustainability strategy & SDG mapping
A clean, evidence-based sustainability strategy anchored to the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals, with a named SDG owner, KPI framework, reporting cadence and executive-ready narrative.
From £3,400 per organisation
Sustainability reporting & disclosures
Drafting and review of annual sustainability reports, CSRD / ESRS narrative disclosures (social and environmental), GRI-aligned reporting, and evidence packs for clients, funders and regulators. Biodiversity disclosures handled in the biodiversity stream above.
From £2,600 per report
Full-time sustainability officers
Where an organisation needs continuous dedicated capacity, we can supply a full-time embedded sustainability officer to lead the programme in-house — managed, mentored and reviewed by our senior team. See the embedded specialists section for custom hours and fixed-term options.
From £48,000 / year (all-inclusive)
Talent acquisition
Talent acquisition — finding specialists for your organisation
Search, shortlist and place specialists into your organisation on a permanent contract — ecology, conservation, agriculture, GIS, wildlife biology, social work, project management, research and more. A flat search-and-consulting fee gets the work started; a one-off placement fee applies only on successful onboarding and the end of a three-month probation.
Search & consulting fee
A flat engagement fee to define the role with you, scope the market, run outreach, pre-screen candidates and deliver a shortlist. Charged once per role.
£150 per role
Placement fee — payable on success
A one-off placement fee is charged when the hired candidate successfully passes their three-month probation. Priced by designation level.
- Graduate — £200
- Mid-level — £300
- Senior — £500
- Principal — £800
- Associate — £1,300
Specialisms covered
Permanent roles we can help fill include, but are not limited to:
- Field ecologist, ecologist, ecological consultant
- Biologist, wildlife biologist, zoologist
- Conservation scientist, conservation officer
- GIS analyst / specialist
- Agriculture, agronomy & regenerative farming
- Social worker
- Project manager & programme manager
- Geneticist
- Lecturer & academic staff
- Zoo keeper, curator & aquarist
- Farmer, farm manager, stockperson
- Sustainability & ESG officer
- Environmental journalist & columnist
- Wildlife crime investigator / officer
- Policy, legal & compliance (environmental)
- Veterinary & para-veterinary staff (where scope allows)
Talk to us about other environment-adjacent or science-adjacent roles — if it sits near our area of expertise we can search for it.
Volunteers & interns
Where a paid hire is not the right fit, we can also help you source volunteers and interns — useful for field seasons, short projects, grant-funded pilots and early-career placements. Scoped case-by-case.
From £150 search fee
Designation definitions
- Graduate — fresh out of university; relevant bachelor's or master's degree.
- Mid-level — 2+ years of relevant experience, or demonstrable credentials and a proven track record.
- Senior — 4+ years of relevant experience, or demonstrable credentials and a proven track record.
- Principal — 7+ years of relevant experience, or demonstrable credentials and a proven track record.
- Associate — 11+ years of relevant experience, or demonstrable credentials and a proven track record.
Custom placement options — fixed-term, part-time & contract
The standard placement fee (Graduate £200 → Associate £1,300) covers a permanent, full-time hire (typically 35–40 hours a week). For any other shape of role we quote a custom placement fee on the same designation scale:
Part-time & job-share placements
Where the role runs at fewer than 35 hr/wk, the placement fee is pro-rated by the hours required — minimum 40% of the full placement fee, floor £200.
- ≤ 14 hr/wk — 40% of designation placement fee
- 17.5 hr/wk (half-time) — 50%
- 21 hr/wk — 60%
- 26 hr/wk (three-quarter) — 75%
- 28–35 hr/wk — 100% (full fee)
Same £150 search & consulting fee up front.
Fixed-term & contract placements
For roles scoped to run a fixed number of months rather than permanent, the placement fee is discounted to reflect the shorter commitment. All probation and replacement protections still apply pro-rata.
- ≥ 18 months / permanent — 100% of placement fee
- 12–17 months — 85%
- 9–11 months — 70%
- 6–8 months — 55%
- 3–5 months — 40%
- < 3 months — quoted per project (retained search, from £600)
Probation is also pro-rated: typically the first 15% of the contract length, minimum 4 weeks.
Critical, rare or board-level roles
Where a role is time-critical, highly specialised or board-level we can run a retained search. The £150 search fee becomes a larger engagement retainer billed in thirds; the placement fee still applies at designation on successful onboarding.
- Retainer: from £1,200 (Senior) / £1,800 (Principal) / £2,800 (Associate)
- Deliverables: full market map, named long-list, managed interview process, offer negotiation
- Replacement guarantee: extended to 6 months
Multiple roles & cohort hires
Hiring several specialists in one engagement — e.g. a field-season cohort, a new office build-out, a graduate intake — attracts a volume discount on the combined placement fees.
- 3–5 roles in one engagement — 10% off combined placement fees
- 6–10 roles — 15% off
- 11+ roles — 20% off, quoted per programme
Volunteer / intern cohorts priced per engagement.
Embedded specialists
Embedded specialists — we provide a full-time professional
A full-service alternative to hiring directly: we supply a qualified specialist who works 35 hours a week for your organisation. The person is employed by us — we handle the employment relationship, payroll, support and professional development — and your organisation simply pays us the annual fee below. Specialists available across the same disciplines as our talent-acquisition search (ecology, conservation, GIS, agriculture, biology, social work, project management, lecturing, zoology, farming, zoo keeping and related fields).
Embedded graduate specialist
Fresh out of university with a relevant bachelor's or master's. 35 hours a week, fully supported by our senior team.
£32,000 / year
Embedded mid-level specialist
2+ years of experience (or proven credentials). 35 hours a week, with the same senior support.
£35,000 / year
Embedded senior specialist
4+ years of experience (or proven credentials). Leads workstreams, mentors junior staff on site.
£38,000 / year
Embedded principal specialist
7+ years of experience (or proven credentials). Leads programmes and represents the function externally.
£41,000 / year
Embedded associate specialist
11+ years of experience (or proven credentials). Strategic lead; suitable where the role doubles as head-of-function.
£44,000 / year
Embedded volunteers & interns
Where a full-time embedded specialist is not needed, we can also place and support volunteers or interns inside your organisation under the same framework — managed and supported by us.
Scoped per engagement
Custom hours per week
The annual fees above assume a standard full-time pattern of 35 hours a week. Where an organisation needs a specialist for fewer hours — part-time cover, job-share, or a capped weekly commitment — the annual fee is pro-rated by the hours booked, with a small admin uplift to reflect the overhead of managing short-hours employment cleanly.
17.5 hr/wk
Half of full-time hours, plus 10% admin uplift on the pro-rata.
- Graduate — £17,600 / yr
- Mid-level — £19,250 / yr
- Senior — £20,900 / yr
- Principal — £22,550 / yr
- Associate — £24,200 / yr
26 hr/wk
Three-quarter hours with a 5% admin uplift on the pro-rata.
- Graduate — £25,200 / yr
- Mid-level — £27,600 / yr
- Senior — £29,900 / yr
- Principal — £32,300 / yr
- Associate — £34,650 / yr
7 hr/wk
Useful for review-level cover, standing advisory or ongoing specialist oversight.
- Graduate — £7,040 / yr
- Mid-level — £7,700 / yr
- Senior — £8,360 / yr
- Principal — £9,020 / yr
- Associate — £9,680 / yr
Any weekly hours
For any other weekly pattern — a fixed number of hours, a variable monthly cap, or a split across multiple specialists — we quote on the same pro-rata scale:
- Base rate = (annual fee ÷ 35) × hours per week
- Admin uplift: 10% under 20 hr/wk, 5% 20–30 hr/wk, none over 30 hr/wk
- Minimum engagement: 3.5 hr/wk (half a day)
Custom duration of service
Where an organisation needs an embedded specialist for a fixed period rather than a rolling annual arrangement, we can scope the engagement to a named duration. The fee is the pro-rated annual cost plus a short-engagement uplift to cover on-boarding and off-boarding. Minimum engagement is 3 months; shorter cover is quoted as interim consultancy instead.
Full annual engagement
As listed above — no uplift.
- Graduate — £32,000
- Mid-level — £35,000
- Senior — £38,000
- Principal — £41,000
- Associate — £44,000
Three-quarter year (+5%)
Pro-rata on 9/12 plus a 5% uplift.
- Graduate — £25,200
- Mid-level — £27,550
- Senior — £29,900
- Principal — £32,300
- Associate — £34,650
Half-year (+10%)
Pro-rata on 6/12 plus a 10% uplift — useful for field seasons, project sprints and maternity / sabbatical cover.
- Graduate — £17,600
- Mid-level — £19,250
- Senior — £20,900
- Principal — £22,550
- Associate — £24,200
Quarter-year (+15%)
Pro-rata on 3/12 plus a 15% uplift — the shortest embedded engagement we take.
- Graduate — £9,200
- Mid-level — £10,065
- Senior — £10,925
- Principal — £11,790
- Associate — £12,650
24 or 36 months (discount)
Longer commitments receive a discount on the combined annual fees and lock in the rate against in-year increases.
- 24 months — 5% off the two-year total
- 36 months — 8% off the three-year total
- Rate frozen at the start-of-contract designation rate
Custom hours + custom duration
The two can be combined — e.g. a senior GIS analyst at 17.5 hr/wk for 6 months. Fee = annual rate × (hours/35) × (months/12), with the larger of the two applicable uplifts.
We will quote a full worked breakdown with every custom proposal.
Charity, not a service
Social charity — company & nature for lonely older people
The "cup of tea, company and a bit of nature" programme is part of our charity arm, not a paid consultancy service. It runs as a Liverpool-based social charity — full details, volunteering and donation options are on the charity page.
Coming soon
GIS & statistical analysis
Two new capabilities currently being launched — register interest via the contact form if you'd like to be notified first.
GIS services
Custom ecological GIS — habitat mapping, corridor analysis, species distribution modelling, CHSA mapping and BNG-ready outputs.
Statistical analysis
Dedicated statistical analysis — study design, mixed-models, power analysis, occupancy modelling and publication-ready figures for academic and consultancy clients.
Transparent, competitive pricing
Every project is scoped to the specific site, legislation and biome. Send us the site boundary and a short brief — we will return a fixed quote, timeline and team within 2–3 working days.
Request a quoteRequest a quote
All quote requests go to the same inbox: evolutionaryecology@outlook.com. We reply within 2–3 working days with a fixed quote.
- Your full name and organisation (if any)
- Service area (BNG, Ecology & baseline surveys, Research & site-protection, Gardening & landscaping, Conservation & selective breeding, Social / community consultation, Staff placement, GIS / stats, or other)
- Site location / region and timeline
- Project brief — site boundary or size, legal driver (planning, IFC, BNG), key species or habitats, what you need from us
- Billing contact and, if a company, VAT / company number
On your go-ahead we issue a secure pay-by-email invoice — card, bank transfer or PayPal, direct from your inbox.
Social services
Social ecology — questionnaires, engagement & communications
Ecology is only half the story. The social side — how landowners, local communities, councils, regulators and funders are consulted, informed and brought along — is often what decides whether a project succeeds. These are our social services, delivered alongside (or independently of) any of our ecological work.
Questionnaires & surveys
Design, distribution and analysis of structured questionnaires — landowner attitudes, community perceptions of wildlife, visitor surveys on reserves, farmer attitudes to BNG uptake and pre/post-intervention social monitoring. Data cleaned, analysed and presented alongside the ecological findings where appropriate.
From £450
Stakeholder engagement
Mapping, planning and running stakeholder engagement programmes — identifying interested parties, convening workshops, facilitating consultation sessions and producing engagement logs that stand up to planning, PS6 and regulator scrutiny.
From £650
Briefings
Concise, decision-ready briefings for councillors, trustees, boards, funders and community groups — translating ecological evidence into the language and time-budget each audience actually has.
From £250
Correspondence
Drafting and handling formal correspondence — regulator letters, PS6 lender queries, Natural England / Marine Management / planning-authority exchanges, objection responses and FOI handling. Everything logged, audit-ready and consistent in tone.
From £150
Conferences & speaking
Conference organisation, session chairing and invited talks on our specialist topics — BNG at 20%, CHSA in practice, ethical pest control, selective breeding, MENA urban ecology and de-extinction. Available as conference speaking, panel contributions or full programme design.
From £350
Community & stakeholder reports
Public-facing reports and plain-language summaries of consultation outcomes, engagement data and survey findings — formatted for councils, community groups and NGO audiences rather than technical reviewers.
From £400
ESIAs & Independent Social Impact Assessments
Full Environmental & Social Impact Assessments for major projects, and standalone independent SIAs commissioned by communities, NGOs or regulators to cross-check a developer's own assessment. Covers livelihood, cultural heritage, vulnerable groups and in-migration.
ESIA from £4,500 · Independent SIA from £1,800
Noise, air & soil pollution assessments
Baseline and impact assessments for noise, air quality and soil contamination — for planning conditions, community-concern cases and proactive enforcement. Delivered remotely where the monitoring data allows, with UK field teams otherwise.
From £650 per pollution type
Petition & campaign support
Help residents and community groups set up evidence-backed petitions around local environmental concerns — including the social dimensions of developments such as housing, infrastructure and resource projects. We draft, source supporting evidence and route submissions to the right authority.
From £250
Rallies, conferences & transparency
Support in organising and rallying around conferences that demand transparency from transnational corporations and governments on environmental and social disclosures. Event planning, speaker curation, evidence dossiers and media-ready summaries.
From £600