BOOBOOK ECOLOGICAL CONSULTING

Our team

Meryl Eddie

Business Manager

Meryl is the driving force behind our business.

With vision, insatiable energy and an unswerving commitment to Boobook’s cause, Meryl is respected among peers and highly regarded in the local community.

Over 30 years, Meryl has built on her strong strategic planning and community engagement background, working for community groups, local and state government, large companies and in her own businesses.

She is a Board Member of the Outback Queensland Tourism Association and has chaired numerous community committees.

Favourite species and why

“The Boobook owl – adaptive and blending well into the environment, this is the smallest owl in Australia. Flying almost silently through the night sky, the Boobook Owl takes a bird’s eye view of the world, looking beyond the trees far into the forest searching and exploring for new opportunities. Also, you’ve got to love those big, bold eyes.”

Meryl's main areas of expertise

Meryl’s main areas of expertise are:

Development of strategic planning documents
Facilitation of community workshops
Development/implementation of community programs and events
Rural property and business management
Financial planning and human resource management
Marketing
Safety management.

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.

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.

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.

I wouldn’t hesitate recommending Boobook for consulting work – they collaborate really well and they are so good at dotting the i’s and crossing the t’s. They have a really good set of skills across the board.

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.

The science of a shared world

Boobook Ecological Consulting has built its success on decades I 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.

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Fauna

Flora

Wetland, streams and springs surveys

Land management

Technical reviews

Biodiversity offsets

Flora and fauna guiding

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Resource industries

Natural resource management groups

Construction and infrastructure

Agriculture

Indigenous land owners

Government

BOOBOOK ECOLOGICAL CONSULTING

Our team

Meryl Eddie

Business Manager

Favourite species and why

Meryl's main areas of expertise

What our clients say

The science of a shared world

Services

Sectors

About Boobook