Below are links to organisations, individuals, groups and websites that we find interesting and useful
Links & References
Networking
We have worked with the following organisations and individuals:
Asken Ltd
Aconsultancy business specialising in countryside management, operated by Ken Taylor
www.asken.co.ukDavid Tyldesley & Associates
An environmental and general planning consultancy specialising in planning, landscape design and ecological management.
dta@dt-a.co.ukDigger Jackson
Ecologist and photographer whose photographs have been used throughout this website. Digger has worked with Footprint Ecology and is currently employed by Natural Research.
www.natural-research.org/index.htmExeter University (Matt Lobley)
Assistant Director and senior research fellow at the University of Exeter’s Centre for Rural Research.
www.centres.ex.ac.uk/crpr/Fieldwork Ecological Services (Kevin Cook)
small consultancy based in north Dorset. Kevin Cook, Church Farm House, Back Lane, Okeford Fitzpaine, Blandford.
(no link available)James Lowen
Wildlife photographer some of whose images we have used on these pages.
lowen.james@gmail.comMosaic Mapping
A small company specialising in digital mapping services. Run by John Smith, a director of the Ancient Tree Forum.
MosaicMap@aol.comNeil Gartshore / Calluna Books
Specialist natural history book service based in Dorset. Neil also conducts ornithological survey work and bird / natural history tours.
neil&yuki@onaga54.freeserve.co.ukPenny Anderson Associates
a specialist ecological and environmental consultancy, working regularly in multi-disciplinary teams on a wide range of projects.
www.pennyanderson.comRalph Clarke, Bournemouth University
Professor in Environmental Statistics at Bournemouth University, Centre for Conservation Ecology and Environmental Change, Ralph was previously the senior statistician and biometrician at the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Dorset. Ralph has worked with Footprint Ecology on a number of research contracts, including the visitor studies and bird research concerning development adjacent to heathland.
www.bournemouth.ac.uk/cceec/staffandstudents/ralph_clarke.htmlRob Still (Quetzal Communications / Wildguides)
Graphic designer responsible for the Footprint logo.
www.wildguides.co.ukSimon Curson
Simon runs project fred, a small company specialising in guided walks, environmental education and environmental awareness in east Dorset and Hampshire.
www.projectfred.co.uk/
Websites of interest
The following sites are ones we have found useful and interesting, many have a connection with Footprint Ecology:
Alaska Environmental Contracting
A close geographic neighbour of Footprint Ecology, specialising in habitat restoration, recreation and management through the use of specialist machinery
www.alaska.ltd.uk/alaska_envir/default.htmAsociacion Armonìa
the BirdLife International partner in Bolivia, who run the project benefiting from our carbon offsetting.
www.birdbolivia.comBusiness Link Wessex
This website was part funded through the support of Business Link and an XPAND grant
businesslinkwessex.co.ukCalluna books
Calluna Books are based in the heart of Thomas Hardy country near the Dorset town of Wareham. Trading since 1997 and specialise in buying and selling out of print natural history books through mail order and by attending selected events. With a stock of over 2000 books covering a wide range of natural history subjects including birds, invertebrates, flora, mammals, wildlife art and general natural history of the UK and worldwide, and a good selection of New Naturalist and Poyser titles.
www.callunabooks.co.uk/Conservation evidence
website run by the University of East Anglia collating information on the effectiveness of conservation practice
www.conservationevidence.comdarkHouse Multimedia
Website designers, including ours!
www.darkhousemultimedia.comFootprint Consulting Ltd
another Footprint, this one promoting social justice and ecological sustainability through human ecology consulting, education and training, specializing in ecopsychology
www.footprint-education.orgGreenmantle Ecosophy Ltd
an environmental and wildlife habitat management service & consultancy working to promote the sustainable creation, restoration and management of habitats for wildlife based in the south west.
www.green-mantle.co.ukLiving Music
Music celebrating the creatures and cultures of the earth
www.livingmusic.comNeomorphus
Source of the photograph used to illustrate our carbon offsetting info.
www.neomorphus.comVINE Values in Nature and the Environment
group exploring the vision, inspiration and values in UK nature conservation.
www.vineproject.org.uk