Preliminary Ecological Appraisal
A Preliminary Ecological Appraisal establishes the ecological context, constraints, and opportunities of a site and forms the evidence base for all further work. The appraisal identifies the historic, current, and future potential ecological values of a property. By examining soils, hydrology, landscape setting, remnant vegetation and ecological function, we build an understanding of the site’s pre-clearing ecological identity and its role in the wider landscape. A site visit is undertaken to ground-truth vegetation communities and condition, conduct a snapshot bird survey, and identify priority weeds and land management issues. The resulting report provides clear, practical guidance to inform sensitive landscape design, improve ecological function, and enhance long-term value for both people and biodiversity. This stage is required as a foundation on which we build our more advanced services.
Advanced Ecological Assessment
An Advanced Ecological Assessment builds directly onto the Preliminary Ecological Appraisal. This stage is tailored in consultation with the client’s interests and includes targeted seasonal flora and fauna surveys, which may include diurnal and nocturnal bird surveys, frog, fish and aquatic fauna surveys, and mammal surveys using camera traps and spotlighting.
It provides species-level insight and specific habitat recommendations, including targeted planting palettes, habitat features, weed and pest management priorities, and (where relevant) guidance on aquatic systems and food webs. By revealing the species that already use — or could return to — the site, this service deepens the client’s connection to place while providing landscape designers with site-specific ecological direction that will significantly strengthen nature-positive design outcomes. This service delivers a baseline species inventory and forms the evidence base for a full restoration and monitoring program.
Ecological Restoration & Biodiversity Monitoring Program
Re-WildScape partners with landholders, landscapers, restoration ecologists and bush regenerators to guide broad-acre projects through a tailored Ecological Restoration and Biodiversity Monitoring Program. Building on the preliminary and advanced ecological assessments, we co-develop staged, implementable strategies that support the processes, dynamics and connectivity of ecosystems. Rewilding restores complex food webs, improves the ability of organisms to disperse and migrate across the landscape and allows natural disturbances to create the conditions for biodiversity to flourish. By relaxing intensive management, these interactions are allowed to evolve and foster complex and self-organising ecosystems.
This service is adaptive and responsive and is suited to visionary clients with long-term commitment to creating biodiverse, high conservation value assets. Together, we can contribute to species conservation, deliver ecosystem services and showcase a legacy of ecological stewardship.
Assess and Plan for Incentivised Nature-Positive Projects
Strategies to position the property as a tax-effective asset through;
- The Nature Repair Market - Australia’s National voluntary biodiversity credit scheme.
- Establishing an accredited biodiverse carbon project (ERF/ACCUs)
- Biodiversity Stewardship Agreement
- Voluntary Conservation Agreement
- Managing the property for primary production - i.e. cabinet timber plantation and/or Agroforestry