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Wildlife in Focus
with consultant ecologist Kurtis Lindsay
Have you ever wondered
what the process is when a developer comes along to build their mega shopping
centre, or some-one wants to start up a mine somewhere?
What happens to all the
birds and animals, shrubs and trees?
Believe it or not, there
are people hired who get up to all sorts of methods to account for wildlife
that might be on a threatened patch.
Let’s find out what
exactly
PLAY: Ecology consulting_29th January_2014
Both the Conservation Act and The Threatened Species Act are used by ecologists when assessing land that might be developed to find targeted species.
Consulting ecologists may mark out a 50 x 50 metre plt and map every bit of vegetation and fauna in that area. They also set up night time cameras, Songmeters and Ana Bat to pick up microbats, songbirds, frogs and other animals.
Plenty of details from Kurtis as
usual in that segment about his actual job. Kurtis is based in Mudgee, and as I
mentioned, used to do the wildlife in focus segment as he’s an expert
ornithologist as well.
Glad to see that Kurtis is taking
care of some of our living things out their in the bush.
