Costed plans and options for herpetofauna surveillance and monitoring (ENRR663)

Natural England needs herpetofauna surveillance and monitoring data for various purposes: with regard to interest features on designated sites, status of BAP and other nationally important species, assessment of national trends in widespread species, European legal obligations for Species of Community Interest, information for miscellaneous casework tasks, and data on non-native species. At present much of the data is lacking, patchily distributed across many organisations, and collected to different standards.