Our TEAM
Tracy Lyten
Director and Conservation Dog Handler
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Tracy has over 20 years of business management experience, including 15 years’ at National Parks land management agencies Parks Victoria and NSW Parks & Wildlife.
Tracy specialised in project management, natural values management, stakeholder engagement, community engagement, local port management, occupation health and safety, commercial operations and event management.
As a dog handler, Tracy was an operational Search & Rescue dog handler for 6 years. Tracy held a position as an Australian Search Dog Framework working group member with the Federal Attorney General’s Department in developing a policy proposal on Search & Rescue dogs in Australia to the Federal Government. More recently Tracy worked as a conservation detection dog handler, delivering on forestry, wind farm industry and predator control programs in Victoria.
Fiona Jackson
Director and Conservation Dog Handler
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Fiona holds a Masters degree in International Animal Welfare, Ethics and Law from the University of Edinburgh. Fiona's interest in the use of detection dogs for environmental data collection led her to examine the behavioural effects of the dog handler on the performance levels of the trained detection dogs for her thesis paper; The effects of the detection dog handler on the performance levels of the trained detection dog.
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Fiona has clocked up over 1,500 hours surveying with conservation detection dogs in Victoria, New South Wales and South Australia. She has trained dogs for wind farm mortality surveys, threatened species detection and invasive species eradication.
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Fiona holds a Cert.III in Dog Training & Behaviour with the National Dog Trainers Federation.
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Fiona is also a member of the Australasian Conservation Dog Network (ACDN) executive committee.
Dr. Stevie Florent, BSc (Hons), PhD
Head of Research and Development
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Stevie is a trained scientist, holding a Bachelor of Science with Honours in Conservation Biology of Tasmanian Devils, with majors in Zoology and Botany, and a PhD in Evolutionary & Developmental Genetics.
Her background also includes work as a Research Assistant, Senior Teaching Associate for undergraduate genetics units, and as a Veterinary Nurse.
At Skylos, Stevie is responsible for the research, planning, and implementation of new Skylos Ecology projects and products. She has extensive experience in data collection & handling, critical thinking, research, and the scientific method, and is excited to be in a role where she can combine her passions of conservation, animal welfare, and science.
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Jesra Garcia BSc, BA
Ecologist and Conservation Dog Handler
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Jesra holds a Bachelor of Science majoring in Ecology and Conservation Biology, and a Bachelor of Arts majoring in Human Geography. Her professional background includes experience in ecosystem restoration as a nonprofit alliance facilitator, and in public education and animal husbandry, handling, and training as a native wildlife presenter and zookeeper.
In her past work in ecological consulting as a zoologist and conservation dog handler, she handled and trained detection dogs, and helped deliver on numerous renewable energy, property development, and extractive industry projects. This comprised targeted and incidental detection, monitoring, and management of species through field surveys, data collection, collation, and management, desktop assessments, and reporting and recommendations.
Jes brings to Skylos Ecology a wealth of knowledge and experience in environmental monitoring and management. As an Ecologist, Environmental Communicator and Conservation Dog Handler, she is an all-rounder who contributes to Skylos in multiple meaningful ways. Jesra also brings her two conservation detection dogs, Barkimedes and Cruise, to the team. Both dogs are experienced in bird and bat mortality detection at wind farms across Victoria​.​
THE SKYLOS DOGS
JIMMY
Jimmy is our superstar rescue dog. Handler Fiona rescued Jimmy when he was 15-months old. He's gone on to work on threatened species re-introduction projects, fox management projects, wild dog monitoring projects, as well as his regular wind farm surveying.
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Target Scents:
fox scat, dens and scavenge sites.
feral cat scat and scavenge sites.
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bird and bat carcasses (wind farm).
Thank you to Jimmy's rescue organisation Paws 2 Luv
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Victoria, Australia.