Truly sustainable development requires the effective integration of biodiversity assets into the landscape, be it as the setting aside of large natural areas for conservation, the identification of lands suitable for compensatory or offsetting purposes, landscape-scale biodiversity management plans or localised master planning exercises. Whatever the scale or objective, meaningful outcomes invariably require a well-informed approach in order to provide demonstrably sustainable planning outcomes. Biolink staff have experience in these processes, from the integration of ecological constraints into master planning studies, preparation of supporting statutory planning documents and the drafting of localised Development Control Plans.

Biolink staff are experienced in conducting Population Viability Analysis (PVA), a method which enables modelling of the effects of demographic, environmental and stochastic events on wildlife population dynamics over long time frames. This approach has been successfully used to inform development and infrastructure outcomes as well as the impacts of habitat restoration programs. Adequately informed by species biology, demographics and threats, it can be used as a predictive tool to estimate the probability of the extinction / persistence and size of a given population.

We are adept at specialised spatial-conservation approaches, having been engaged in niche projects such as the review of the conservation status of threatened species and provision of an estimate for the number of koalas killed by the 2019-2020 bushfire season, a research project which generated a heavily cited publication.