Our Ecologists design and implement recovery programs that mitigate threatening processes and boost threatened species populations. Our threatened species services include: 

  • monitoring and analysis; 

  • surveys; 

  • threat assessments and mitigation strategies;

  • writing recovery documents - action plans, recovery strategies, land management plans; 

  • fire and biodiversity assessments;

  • coordination of on-ground recovery works; 

  • germplasm collection and conservation; and 

  • flora and fauna translocations. 

Unlike many other not-for-profit organisations, we take a strategic approach by recovering species across their entire range rather than at a small number of populations. 

Partnerships

Building and maintaining partnerships is at the core of our recovery work. We works closely with Traditional Owners, State and Local governments, local communities and research ecologists to do this. We seek to identify opportunities to partner with Traditional Owners on our projects to support them to continue their work on country and to generate employment for these regional communities.

Citizen science and community events

Many of our projects are underpinned by community engagement including setting up and maintaining citizen science programs. Our team are experienced at organising and running inclusive events to inspire and educate community, students and corporate groups around local threatened flora and fauna.

Biodiverse Revegetation

Boosting floristic and genetic diversity through diverse plantings and genetic rescue can play an important role in building resilience into revegetated communities to enable them to withstand future changes in our climate. In addition to this, assisted migration is also likely to support species to withstand local changes in climate. The TSC considers these and other ecological factors when planning flora recovery.

Revegetation works can bring about both landscape scale and single species benefits. Most revegetation projects do not include threatened flora. This is likely to be due to a number of factors some of which include:

  • flora permit applications;

  • unsuitable location of translocation sites;

  • poor habitat condition of translocation sites;

  • challenges sourcing germplasm;

  • challenges propagating plants;

  • challenges in developing translocation plans; 

  • limited threatened species recovery expertise by organisation; and

  • genetic, reproductive and ecological issues that limit plant population establishment and recruitment.

However, with the involvement of threatened species ecologists, revegetation projects can address many of these issues and successfully incorporate threatened flora.

Research

We work closely with research scientists to improve threatened species recovery approaches and contribute to the greater body of science.