Clare McCutcheon

Clare McCutcheon is a highly experienced zoologist for Biosis and APEM Group Australia. She offers over 16 years of ecological consulting experience conducting fauna surveys and environmental impact assessments across south-eastern Australia. She has an extensive knowledge and understanding of environmental issues and conservation management, with a particular focus on vertebrate fauna identification, monitoring, environmental impact assessment and targeted survey for rare and threatened species.

 Clare has designed and coordinated numerous large-scale surveys for threatened fauna species across a range of habitats, including targeted mammal surveys of the central Gippsland foothill forests, seabird and shorebird surveys of the central Gippsland coast and targeted surveys for threatened grassland fauna to the west of Melbourne.

She has also undertaken impact assessments for a range of large-scale infrastructure projects including onshore and offshore wind farms in South Australia, Victoria and Tasmania. This has included designing and undertaking baseline terrestrial and marine bird surveys, bird utilisation surveys, coordinating the implementation of Bat and Avifauna Management Plans and undertaking collision risk modelling to assess the potential impacts of turbine strike on bird populations for both onshore and offshore wind energy projects in Australia. Clare has an excellent working knowledge of policy and legislation relating to biodiversity and has coordinated the environmental approvals for a number of projects including the Ravenhall Prison Project on former Commonwealth land at Ravenhall, Victoria.  Clare is also responsible for leading the training and technical development of the Victorian Zoology Team at Biosis.

Clare is also responsible for leading the training and technical development of the Victorian Ecology Team at Biosis.