Ecological Design Assessment

The Ecological Design Assessment (EDA) provides the ecological foundation for a nature-positive landscape design. Building on the initial consultation, it identifies the site's key ecological opportunities and constraints, informing practical recommendations that enhance biodiversity while supporting the client's vision.

The assessment may include:

• Identification of significant vegetation communities and ecological condition.
• Landscape opportunities for habitat enhancement and connectivity.
• Preliminary assessment of flagship flora and fauna likely to benefit from the design.
• Soil, topography and hydrological considerations.
• Weed assessment and management priorities.
• Preliminary environmental market opportunities.

The findings inform landscape design decisions and identify where a more detailed Advanced Ecological Assessment is recommended to support habitat restoration and long-term biodiversity outcomes.

Advanced Ecological Assessment

An Advanced Ecological Assessment (AEA) builds directly onto the EDA and is tailored to the client’s interests.  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 outcomes.

How this happens

• Targeted diurnal and nocturnal fauna surveys for birds, frogs, mammals, reptiles, fish and aquatic surveys 
• Species-level insight for required macro and micro habitats, structural habitat features and seasonal resources for food, shelter and breeding opportunities 
• Targeted flora surveys and identification of restoration and revegetation priorities
• Weed and pest management strategies
• Guidance on re-connecting aquatic systems and re-building food webs. 

This service delivers a baseline species inventory which forms the evidence for a full restoration and monitoring program.

Re-Wilding Program

Re-WildScape partners with landholders, landscapers, restoration ecologists and bush regenerators to guide large-acre projects through a tailored Re-Wilding Program that re-establishes the connectivity, ecosystem processes and dynamics of wild, high integrity ecosystems.   

How this happens

Guided by findings of earlier assessments this service is adaptive and responsive as rewilding takes time. It involves;

• An co-developed ecological restoration strategy with staged implementation
• Restoration of complex food webs
• Improving the ability of organisms to disperse and migrate across the landscape
• Re-instating  or mimicking natural disturbances to create conditions for biodiversity to flourish. 
• Ongoing monitoring and evaluation
• Relaxing intensive management to allow species interactions to evolve into complex and self-organising ecosystems.

This is suited to visionary clients with long-term commitment to increasing the value of their natural assets, contributing to species conservation and showcasing a legacy of ecological stewardship.

Natural Capital & Environmental Markets

Re-WildScape supports participation in current and emerging environmental markets that incentivise nature-positive outcomes. We provide assessment, planning and project development by identifying existing natural capital, ecosystem services and the environmental services that provide improvements through restoration. We assist landholders in exploring environmental market mechanisms that match their vision and the context of their land.



Mechanisms include;

• Positioning properties as tax effective assets through primary production  - i.e. cabinet timber plantation and/or agroforestry
• Accessing additional land and water management incentives available to primary producers 
• Strategies to reducing taxes, levies and charges
• Tradable carbon credits -  Australian Carbon Credit Scheme
• Tradable biodiversity certificates -  Nature Repair Market
• Stacked Carbon and Biodiversity credit schemes
• Biodiversity Stewardship Agreement incentive payments
• Voluntary Conservation Agreements incentive payments
• Emerging Voluntary Environmental Markets