Renewable Energy Biodiversity Impact Assessments

Biosis is a leader in servicing the renewable energy industry’s environmental and heritage assessment needs. Biosis has been developing strategies for avoidance and minimisation of environmental impacts caused by the wind farm and solar farm industries for decades. Biosis has worked with over 30 planned or operational offshore and onshore wind farms in Australia delivering Bird and Bat Utilisation Surveys (BBUS), offshore bird and marine mammal boat surveys, biologging habitat use assessments, heritage impact assessments, and a range of other ongoing environmental management plans. Biosis has also prepared reporting for ‘whole of project’ Biodiversity Bird and Bat Adaptive Management Plans (BBAMP).

Biosis solid reputation is based on 40 years of experience and nearly 20,000 projects delivered to clients at all levels of government, the natural resource, energy, construction and tourism industries.

We are particularly renowned for our ornithology | bird impact expertise, and the Biosis Collision Risk Model (CRM) has been the preferred choice by wind energy industry clients and regulators for decades, including the Commonwealth of Australia. It is recognised as the industry standard by regulatory agencies for understanding the potential impact of windfarms on birds.

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Biosis is one of the leading providers of Aboriginal Cultural Heritage and Archaeological services in New South Wales and Victoria and employ heritage consultants in offices in Newcastle, Gosford, Sydney, Western Sydney and Wollongong, Melbourne, Ballarat, Geelong and Albury. We employ specialists in Aboriginal artefact analysis to ensure you’re serviced with the best impact and mitigation advice. We provide advice throughout the project lifecycle; from project planning, strategic advice, and securing approvals, to the development and implementation of compliance requirements. We also have extensive experience working with Traditional Owners and Registered Aboriginal Parties across NSW and Victoria.

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Bat surveys use complex thermal and ultra-sonic acoustic data capture methods. Biosis ecologists are renowned for their expertise in identifying and surveying for bat and micro bat species and will write your bat management and impact mitigation plans to assist in the planning approvals process of your project.

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Biosis employ specialist senior ecologists who are experts in Australian bird and marine mammal bio-logging (tagging and tracking) habitat use assessments. This specialist service enables a very detailed level of data to be captured to correctly analyse targeted species behaviour, and to accurately identify important habitat and foraging sites required for their survival.

Assessing the presence or absence of environmentally significant species may influence the design of your project, informing areas to avoid or help mitigate impact, so your project can move forward through the planning process efficiently.

As part of the UK based APEM Group, leaders in marine wildlife survey methods for windfarms, Biosis has serviced several proposed offshore wind farms and has a strong understanding and working knowledge of marine wildlife survey methods. Learn more about our work as part of the offshore specialist services within APEM Group.

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