5. Dunster Board

5. Dunster Board

Geckoella has been working with Dunster Beach Huts and graphic design company Paperpixels.ink to create an attractive and detailed information board about the beach and the surrounding West Somerset Coast and Bristol Channel. Look out for it on display in Spring...
11. Sustainable Coastal Management

11. Sustainable Coastal Management

Geckoella has been helping communities manage coastal changes. For example the big news for Watchet this year was the closure of the B3191 as ever increasing coastal erosion threatens the integraty of the road. Geckoella’s geologists continue to monitor the...
Orchards and Pollinators

Orchards and Pollinators

Invertebrates are important to conserve and Geckoella has undertaken a range of valuable work in 2023. Senior Ecologist Joshua Butterworth surveyed for pollinators across several sites with invertebrate specialist Dave Boyce, including a new community orchard in...
Orchards and Pollinators

4. Woodlands, Orchards, Pollinators and Invertebrates

This year Geckoella has been lucky enough to survey pristine habitats within ancient woodlands in the Mendips. Amongst the trees surveyors found a plethora of interesting and rare woodland flowers including Toothwort which is a parasitic plant often found on Hazel....
6. Reptile Surveys

6. Reptile Surveys

With a name like Geckoella, we always have a fondness for reptile surveys. Our new recruit this year Sophie Pearce has taken part in several this year, and has demostrated a keen eye for spotting Slow Worms in amongst the dry grass under survey mats…not always...
2.Happy FISC-mas!

2.Happy FISC-mas!

It’s a Happy Christmas for Geckoella’s surveyors as they all received some lovely Christmas cards from the Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland! Every ecologist in Geckoella is now accredited at FISC 3 or above – which means they are...
7. Kayake Water Vole and Otter Surveys

7. Kayake Water Vole and Otter Surveys

Geckoella Ecologist Dela Collins has had a year of ‘mucking about in the water’! Certainly not a deskbound surveyor Dela has been out and about collecting data about water voles and otters on the Somerset Levels.  
12. Bats about Christmas

12. Bats about Christmas

Active at night! Bats in flight! All is calm, all is bright! Bat activity of mother and child! Feeding merrily whilst weather is mild. Sleep in roosts in peace! Sleep in roosts in peace!   The image featured above is a capture of thermal imaging by...
3. Conservation Dogs

3. Conservation Dogs

2023 was a big year for Geckoella working with Conservation dogs. Supported by Geckoella and Kyrus; Sequor a dog detection service was launched in the Spring along with its own website. Read more about it...
1. Drone Surveys

1. Drone Surveys

Geckoella enjoys the challenge of working at the forefront of technology and 2023 has been no exception (image featured is of a limestone pavement at Harry Hallam’s Moss in Yorkshire). Learn more about this year’s drone surveys headed by Jamie Foster...