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The importance of ecology assessments

Michael and Craig bend down and sift through leaf litter as part of an assessment

We conduct ecology assessments to ground truth vegetation communities, classify their importance for habitat, identify potential project impacts and work with our clients to find management solutions.

Over the past decade, we have completed over 900 ecological assessments.

How are they conducted?

Biodiversity and condition assessments involve a desktop assessment and site inspection to identify ecological, biodiversity or conservation values at a particular site or project area.

The level of detail and scale of the assessment is project specific and can be undertaken for a small designated site, at the individual property scale, through to the landscape level (e.g. a local authority area, an entire mountain range or an environmental province).

Key values identified typically include:

  • Watercourses, lakes, springs and other wetlands
  • Remnant vegetation and regrowth
  • Threatened Ecological Communities
  • Threatened and other significant flora and fauna
  • Fauna habitat types and significant areas (e.g. caves, rock outcrops)
  • Landscape corridor values

These values are usually rated as to their significance at the local, regional, state, national and/or international scales. Management strategies to conserve biodiversity and ecological values are also provided.

To find out more about ecology assessments, contact us.

If you would like to discover more about the region of southwest Outback Queensland we call home, please check out our eco-friendly tours on the Boobook Explore website.

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What our clients say

Craig did a brilliant environmental audit and pointed out things that we didn’t even know existed. He scientifically mounted an argument by looking at numbers and regions using botanical names to classify each of the plants and animals – it’s that rigour that makes the biodiversity offset application so credible.
Richard ReidRural Operations Manager, Silver Lining Foundation Australia
Boobook’s service has been used over a number of years on various projects in South Western Queensland including fauna spotting/catching, EVNT flora surveys and invasive plant surveys. In this time, Boobook’s owners and staff have been personable and highly knowledgeable in their various fields.
Environmental Officer, Department of Transport and Main Roads
We’ve worked with Boobook for a long time now, you can be confident with what you are going to get, and you deal with the same people too. We can talk to Craig or Meryl or the senior people, and we get the same level of understanding. We’ve always been very happy with the Boobook service.
John EarleyEnvironmental Manager, Senex Energy Limited
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If you want locally applied knowledge with a group of people who understand what it means to play an active and meaningful role in a community then Boobook are the ones for you. It’s a small company that has a high level of attention to detail and provides a great customer experience that isn’t lost in the workings or mechanics of a large nationally based company.
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The science of a shared world

Boobook Ecological Consulting has built its success on decades of first-hand knowledge of the natural ecosystems of the southern Queensland drylands combined with practical understanding of the complex pressures that impinge on Australia’s fragile environment.