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Bat and avifauna (birds!) management plans (BAMP) are an obligation of planning and compliance for all new wind facilities.  We have noticed that many BAMPs are just cut and pastes from old projects and often don't take into consideration new research, field deliverability and the desires of the client. 
Of course, some projects just want to meet their planning obligations, but others want to evaluate their impact and ensure they are developing sustainable energy. 
When it comes to biodiversity, we can't be too careful. Australia's poor record of protection is no reason to continue to deliver poor BAMPs.  If you care about biodiversity, then ask us to review your BAMP. We can benchmark your plan against the International Good Practise Guidelines, offer support to update your BAMP and ensure it provides adequate protection to biodiversity so you can deliver your project with confidence. Starting a new project and want to deliver a biodiversity safe plan? Contact us, we can help.

Post Construction Fatality Monitoring (PCFM) is essential to understand the impact of the wind facility on birds and bats and to evaluate the effectiveness of mitigation actions. 
Surveys underneath turbines are just one element of a PCFM study. In order to estimate impacts to birds and bats we also must:

• Understand how long a carcass can persist before being removed by scavengers.

• Evaluate performance of the survey methods (dogs or humans).

• Understand the differences in how different sized carcasses may fall if struck by turbine blades.

• Consider the size of the survey area under a turbine.

• Determine a suitable survey frequency.

• Develop survey protocols to maximise detection success​.

• Analyse the data

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Supporting projects across Australia and Asia, get in touch to find out how we can upskill your team to deliver world class PCFMs.
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Detection dogs provide an alternative to traditional survey methods using the dogs powerful sense of smell to find difficult things. Bats can be tiny and detection by visual searchers are difficult and introduce large errors into the data. Dogs, however, are achieving over 90% detection in wind and wildlife surveys meaning less error and more certainty around fatality estimates.
Not all dog teams are equal and different dogs and different handlers can vary in their performance. Understanding how to evaluate dogs in the field and integrating dog teams into data collection requires specialist knowledge. Emma has over 20 years experience working with conservation dogs in both the field as a handler in her younger years, and more recently in their academic evaluation. Contact us to find out how we can support you to integrate detection dogs into a range of ecological applications.

As wind energy continues to develop in Australia, there are often more questions raised around wind and wildlife issues then answers. Whilst much research has been done in the northern hemisphere, its relevance and application to the context of Australia is poorly understood. At Elmoby Ecology, we have been at the forefront of finding new and better techniques to improve data collection and evaluate mitigation strategies. We have the experience and expertise to design and implement effective mitigation trials to help reduce impacts whilst ensure maximum energy  generation. Here are a few research projects we have undertaken for clients:

•  Effectiveness of curtailment to reduce bat impacts

• Alternative survey methods for detecting large bodied carcasses

• Carcass persistence of wedge tailed eagles

• The use of proxy carcasses as surrogates for native carcasses