ARC Professional Training Courses 2013

We are pleased to announces our professional training programme for 2013, conducted in partnership with the Field Studies Council. To see more details about these courses download the brochure here. All bookings for these courses are taken by the Field Studies Council. To register and pay online, please visit the FSC website.

The six courses available are:

Great Crested Newts & Licensing for Surveys
INTRODUCTORY LEVEL 

28th March 2013 AND 3rd April 2013

Working with Natterjacks: understanding their ecology, surveys and licensing
INTRODUCTORY LEVEL

25th April 2013

Lives of British Amphibians: ecology & identification
OPEN TO EVERYONE:

11th -12th May 2013

Reptile Surveys
INTERMEDIATE LEVEL:

15th May 2013

Reptiles & Amphibians
INTERMEDIATE LEVEL: ACCREDITED BY MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY

17th - 20th May 2013

Great Crested Newts, Licensing & Mitigation
INTERMEDIATE LEVEL:

26th - 28th November 2013

WELSH DRAGONS ATTRACT HUGE INTEREST!

The recent Wales Amphibian and Reptile Symposium (WARS) and Wales and the Marches ARG Meeting was a hugely successful event, attracting  seventeen speakers and seventy five individuals from a range of backgrounds, including ARGs, ecological consultants, county council ecologists and academics.

The event was organised by Mark Barber, through ARC’s Community Engagement in Amphibian and Reptile Conservation Across Wales project, which is funded by CCW. It was held at the centrally located Media Resource Centre in Llandrindod Wells, on Saturday the 3rd of November. A range of enjoyable talks focussed on the enormous variety of work being undertaken for amphibians and reptiles in Wales – from modelling newt distribution to reconnecting populations through building ponds! It is hoped this event will encourage further action for the conservation of Welsh herpetofauna by boosting ARG activity and by inspiring the creation of new ARGs. A proceedings to the symposium will be released in due course.