Best Practice for Fauna Impact Assessment Workshop

The two day workshop held on the 6th-7th of July 2016 brought together regulators, consultants, local and state government officers, industry, researchers and students.

It Included presenters from government and the private sector covering a range of topics:

Scoping and survey design
Survey and assessment techniques
Threatened Species Discussion Panel
New technology and innovations

Presentations can be viewed below;

Day 1

• Bridget Hyder -Fauna Survey for Environmental Impact [PDF]
• Dr Mike Bamford – Scoping in EIA [PDF]
• Glen Gaikhorst -Vertebrate Fauna Survey Coverage [PDF]
• Dr Manda Page – Animal Welfare Considerations [PDF]
• Dr Graham Thompson – Survey Effort [PDF]
• Dr Scott Thompson – Fauna Assessment Limitations and sources of Error [PDF]
• Mark Cowan – Terrestrial Vertebrate Surveys [PDF]
• Robert Browne Cooper – Active Searching [PDF]

Day 2

• Rebecca Bray – Nomenclature of Vertebrate Fauna [PDF]
• Piers Higgs – Hand held mobile data collection devices [PDF]
• Peter Adams – Thermal Sensors [PDF]
• Allan Burbidge – Use of sound recording devices in wildlife survey [PDF]
• Robert Lednor -The role of drones in Vertebrate fauna monitoring [PDF]
• Peter Zurzolo – WA Biodiversity Science Institute [PDF]