Services

Purpose-driven and rooted in place

Findhorn, Nairn and Lossie Rivers Consulting Ltd offers a range of services, including ecological consultancy, advisory service and corporate volunteering.

As a purpose-driven trading subsidiary 100% owned by the charitable Trust, all profits generated flow directly back into supporting our restoration efforts across the Findhorn, Nairn and Lossie River watersheds.

 

Ecological consultancy

The Findhorn, Nairn & Lossie Rivers Trust provides a range of biological and environmental consultancy services for both the private and public sectors on the Moray Firth.

We can provide the following services, tailored for your needs:

• Fish monitoring plans
• Fish habitat surveys
• Electrofishing surveys
• Fishery audits and guidance for renewable energy developments, utilities, road infrastructures and water crossings
• Fish scale reading and interpretation
• Freshwater pearl mussel surveys
• Fish rescues and translocation
• Fish and eel passage and barrier assessments
• Fishery data requests to inform EIAs
• Macro invertebrate surveys and monitoring
• Water quality monitoring
• Invasive Non-Native Species surveys and plant control
• Protected Species Surveys & Mitigation
• UK Habitat assessment (coming soon).

All our staff are trained and highly experienced with extensive knowledge of the Findhorn, Nairn and Lossie catchments. Bespoke data, collected for specific tasks, can often be matched and compared with data from our long history of records, collected over many years. Our organisation also holds many trusted relationships with landholdings and land managers through our catchments, helping to facilitate access requirements.

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Advisory services

• Landowner identification and engagement within the Findhorn, Nairn and Lossie catchments
• Advising and assisting with project development
• Community engagement consultancy for conservation-led projects
• Planning compliance and discharge of biodiversity enhancement requirements
• Blending public and private funding packages to enable conservation projects
• Educational engagements such as with University group visits
• Water stewardship

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Corporate volunteering

We are in the process of developing a corporate volunteering offer, if this sounds like something you’d like to explore, please get in touch.