AnthonyB said:
An ecology degree or related would be the absolute minimum qualification requirement if you wanted to do it professionally.
Oh no it isn't. No disclosure of possessing any sort of university degree, let alone an ecology or relevant degree, is made in the report that Cadw's ecologist wrote last year on Ogof Draenen / Twll Du to support it being concreted up. He found no bats using that entrance, as observed from the land surface above it. He did not venture underground to look for bats or find evidence of them like their droppings.
Likewise there is no reference to him possessing any university degree on his LinkedIn page. He does however mention more than a couple of dozen of other qualifications ranging from asbestos training to woodland flora and reptile experience and going on a Cambrian Caving Council SRT course!
Furthermore he is only a Qualifying Member and is not yet a Full Member of the Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management (CIEEM). In other words, he is aspiring to become a full member. And yet he obtained a bat survey contract involving a government body and a 70kms long cave.