Welcome to Findlay Ecology Services

Helping developers, protecting biodiversity

What do Findlay Ecology Services offer?

Findlay Ecology Services is an ecological consultancy offering a wide range of ecological services to support planning applications, Environmental Impact Assessments and biodiversity audits. We offer: vegetation surveys, protected species surveys (Otter, Water Vole, Badger, Great Crested Newt and Squirrel), mitigation advice, protected species licensing, Ecological Impact Assessments, and we specialise in resolving protected species issues using cameras for monitoring difficult subjects such as otters.

What do our clients think?

"We use Melanie Findlay of Findlay Ecology Services for support and advice in planning and undertaking habitat surveys, protected species surveys, licensing and mitigation throughout Scotland, turning to her on a regular basis for specialist input and guidance on a wide variety of projects. In doing so we know that we will always receive the best support and advice possible, underpinned by her high professional standards, her logical and scientific approach, her knowledge, her integrity and her general good sense."
Dr Brian A Cuthbert, AECOM

Remote camera footage now on YouTube

Why not visit the Findlay Ecology Services Channel on YouTube to watch our latest video footage. The footage includes a female otter and her cub, an otter at a willow holt, as well as camera trap footage of a badger taking bedding into an outlier. Discover more about remote camera monitoring.