Our sectors
Renewable Energy
Skylos Ecology has delivered Bird and Bat Monitoring Programs (BBMPs) for wind energy facilities, with a strong focus on collecting the highest-quality datasets to support robust statistical analysis and accurate mortality projections. We understand that reliable data is the foundation of defensible decision-making and effective adaptive management.
BBMPs are a core planning and compliance requirement for all new wind energy developments. While some projects aim to meet statutory obligations, others seek to genuinely understand and minimise their ecological impact as part of delivering truly sustainable energy. In this context, a precautionary, evidence-based approach to biodiversity is essential.
With more than twelve years of combined on-ground experience delivering BBMPs across multiple Australian states, our team provides end-to-end capability, including:
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Survey design and implementation.
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Carcass searches and field protocols.
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Searcher efficiency and carcass persistence trials.
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Data analysis and regulator reporting.
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Adaptive management implementation.
If biodiversity outcomes matter to your project, Skylos Ecology can help. We ensure BBMP implementation and data management are defensible, practical, and capable of providing meaningful protection for wildlife, enabling you to proceed with confidence.
Implementing a new BBMP and want to embed biodiversity safeguards from the outset? Get in touch…. we’re here to help.
Renewable Energy Research
Skylos Ecology is proud to play in role in some cutting-edge research in the renewable energy sector
Threatened Species Monitoring
Skylos Ecology has extensive experience supporting the conservation and recovery of threatened species across a range of ecosystems, from arid inland deserts to coastal wetlands and temperate woodlands. Our work includes targeted surveys, habitat assessments and monitoring programs designed to locate and protect species that are rare, cryptic or occur at low densities. By generating reliable presence, distribution and activity data, we help inform recovery planning, land management decisions and regulatory processes.
We have contributed to projects involving species such as the endangered kowari, Murray–Darling carpet python, freshwater turtles, spotted-tail quoll and a range of threatened birds and bats associated with wind energy developments. Our methodologies are tailored to each species’ ecology and the operational context, ensuring survey approaches are both scientifically robust and practical in the field.
Where appropriate, we integrate multiple monitoring techniques, including Conservation Detection Dogs to improve detection confidence and strengthen datasets.
Beyond data collection, Skylos Ecology works collaboratively with land managers, researchers, Traditional Owner groups and government agencies to ensure threatened species programs are culturally respectful, ethically sound and aligned with long-term conservation goals. Our work supports adaptive management by identifying key habitats, emerging threats and priority areas for protection or intervention. Through this integrated approach, we contribute to safeguarding Australia’s unique biodiversity and supporting the recovery of species at risk.
Flora Pest
Species
Skylos Ecology delivers targeted pest plant programs designed to support early detection, effective control, and long-term eradication of invasive weeds. Our approach combines conventional survey methods with innovative techniques, including conservation detection dogs, to locate plants at early life stages, even when they are dormant, underground, or submerged. This improves detection rates and enables rapid, evidence-based management responses.
We work across terrestrial, riparian, and coastal environments to identify infestation hotspots, map incursion boundaries, and monitor treatment effectiveness over time. By producing detailed spatial data and density mapping, we help land managers prioritise resources, audit contractor performance, and measure program success. Multi-year monitoring further strengthens outcomes by tracking treatment efficacy and identifying remnant or re-emerging plants that may otherwise go undetected.
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Our programs are grounded in practical field experience and a deep understanding of invasive plant ecology. We recognise that early detection and precise targeting are critical to preventing spread, protecting native biodiversity, and reducing long-term management costs.
Whether supporting local government, water authorities, conservation programs, or infrastructure projects, Skylos Ecology delivers pest plant solutions that are scientifically robust, operationally practical, and tailored to the unique conditions of each landscape.
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Our teams have worked on pest plant species that include:
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alligator weed (Alternanthera philoxeroides)
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spartina (Sporobolus anglicus)
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South African weed orchid (Disa bracteata)
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Please reach out if you have a pest plant management program and would like to strengthen detection, monitoring, and long-term control outcomes.
Fauna Pest
Species
Skylos Ecology delivers comprehensive invasive predator monitoring to support evidence-based management and biodiversity protection. We design and implement tailored monitoring programs for species such as foxes and feral cats, using a combination of field techniques including conservation detection dogs, camera trapping, scat analysis, and spatial mapping. Our methods are selected to suit the ecological context, project objectives, and regulatory requirements, that can be delivered with or without conservation detection dogs depending on project needs.
Our approach prioritises the collection of high-quality baseline data to understand predator presence, distribution, and activity patterns. For example, recent monitoring work detected extensive predator activity across a reserve landscape, with hundreds of scats recorded and analysed alongside camera trap data to identify hotspots and inform management priorities.
This integrated methodology enables clients to move beyond assumptions and implement known, targeted, effective control strategies.
Over years of field delivery, we have developed a deep and evolving understanding of invasive predator ecology and management. Each project strengthens our knowledge of predator behaviour, habitat use, and the complex interactions between species. We recognise that managing one predator in isolation can have unintended ecological consequences, and we design monitoring programs that support holistic, ethical, and effective management outcomes.
Our invasive predator monitoring services provide:
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Robust baseline data to inform management decisions
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Identification of activity hotspots and potential den sites
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Evidence to support ethical and effective control strategies
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Integration of genetic sampling and emerging technologies where required
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Clear, defensible reporting aligned with regulatory expectations
Whether supporting land managers, local government, conservation programs, or renewable energy developments, Skylos Ecology delivers monitoring that is scientifically rigorous, practical to implement, and focused on achieving measurable conservation outcomes.