Richard Ferrett

Richard has an honours degree in Ecology and Conservation from Portsmouth University.

Prior to joining the consultancy, he gained 10 years of experience, two of which he worked as a freelance ecologist for consultancies before finding a full-time position where he gained experience specializing in Ecological Appraisals and species-specific surveys, habitat condition assessments and providing ECoW. During this time, he gained a Great Crested Newt (Class 1) Natural England Survey License.

Richard is an experienced ecologist managing a wide range of development projects from pre-planning and post-development monitoring. He has undertaken survey work and monitoring for residential charitable, health commercial and infrastructure projects.

As an ecologist, Richard provides vital support to individual and multi-phased projects, including the collation of field and desk-based data as well as providing ECoW to a variety of different environmental works.