Modern conservation is often as much about working with people as working with wildlife. With long experience of facilitation and negotiation, we appreciate the need to bring a patient, unbiased and common sense approach to solving problems. For conservation projects to be successful they need support from local people. Large projects usually involve partnership working, requiring team working skills and often involving working with a variety of organisations and backgrounds. At Footprint Ecology we understand that there is often a need to work with a variety of interests to achieve our client’s objectives in the most cost effective and sustainable way.
We seek consensus through a variety of methods such as workshops and local “drop-in” events. Examples of our work in these areas include options appraisals for site management, grazing issues on commons and a strategic review of future priorities for research on bird conservation and access.