Skylos Ecology
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Fi & Tracy working with their six conservation detection dogs for better environmental and economic outcomes.
Dogs before data = Better data
January 21, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Dogs before data = Better data
Language matters
January 21, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Language matters
Wind farm work is physically demanding: there’s very early starts, long drives, working away from home, handlers walking 15–20km a day, post-survey data management, and providing 24/7 care to our dogs. This can go on for weeks or even months at a time. 🗓️
January 21, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Wind farm work is physically demanding: there’s very early starts, long drives, working away from home, handlers walking 15–20km a day, post-survey data management, and providing 24/7 care to our dogs. This can go on for weeks or even months at a time. 🗓️
It is a requirement for teams to be regularly assessed on sites to determine their detection rates. These trials should:
✅ Be conducted independently (not by the company supplying the dog teams) for oversight and quality assurance.
✅ Be conducted independently (not by the company supplying the dog teams) for oversight and quality assurance.
January 21, 2025 at 12:09 PM
It is a requirement for teams to be regularly assessed on sites to determine their detection rates. These trials should:
✅ Be conducted independently (not by the company supplying the dog teams) for oversight and quality assurance.
✅ Be conducted independently (not by the company supplying the dog teams) for oversight and quality assurance.
At Skylos, we don’t see our dogs as “monitoring tools”—they are our co-workers and deserve the same care and welfare consideration as our handlers. This is documented in our Canine Welfare Policy. 📑
January 21, 2025 at 12:08 PM
At Skylos, we don’t see our dogs as “monitoring tools”—they are our co-workers and deserve the same care and welfare consideration as our handlers. This is documented in our Canine Welfare Policy. 📑
Since 2012, we’ve been working at wind farms & we have 21 years of experience collecting bat & bird mortality data at sites across Australia.
January 21, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Since 2012, we’ve been working at wind farms & we have 21 years of experience collecting bat & bird mortality data at sites across Australia.
🌬️ Last month, Director Tracy Lyten presented at @ecolsocaus.bsky.social conference on standards and best practice for wind farm mortality detection dogs. 🦇🦅
January 21, 2025 at 12:04 PM
🌬️ Last month, Director Tracy Lyten presented at @ecolsocaus.bsky.social conference on standards and best practice for wind farm mortality detection dogs. 🦇🦅
January 12, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Just a boy and his Batty. 🦇
Couldn’t help but do a little comparison photoshoot after we found Batty today (who had gone M.I.A for quite some time!) 🔎
Arran at 2 months old ➡️ 2 years old.
Couldn’t help but do a little comparison photoshoot after we found Batty today (who had gone M.I.A for quite some time!) 🔎
Arran at 2 months old ➡️ 2 years old.
January 12, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Just a boy and his Batty. 🦇
Couldn’t help but do a little comparison photoshoot after we found Batty today (who had gone M.I.A for quite some time!) 🔎
Arran at 2 months old ➡️ 2 years old.
Couldn’t help but do a little comparison photoshoot after we found Batty today (who had gone M.I.A for quite some time!) 🔎
Arran at 2 months old ➡️ 2 years old.
The conference gave us the opportunity to finally meet some folks in person that we’ve been working with virtually for years! Plus, we got to spend quality time with some of our favourite people, who are all doing incredible work across Australia!
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December 11, 2024 at 11:59 AM
The conference gave us the opportunity to finally meet some folks in person that we’ve been working with virtually for years! Plus, we got to spend quality time with some of our favourite people, who are all doing incredible work across Australia!
@ecolsocaus.bsky.social
@tasbiophiliac.bsky.social
@ecolsocaus.bsky.social
@tasbiophiliac.bsky.social
We attended the Wind Energy & Wildlife Symposium, learning about improving decision-making in planning wind farm developments, post-construction mortality monitoring results, & solutions to minimise impacts on bird & bat species; curtailment, IdentiFlight & blade painting.
@ecolsocaus.bsky.social
@ecolsocaus.bsky.social
December 11, 2024 at 11:56 AM
We attended the Wind Energy & Wildlife Symposium, learning about improving decision-making in planning wind farm developments, post-construction mortality monitoring results, & solutions to minimise impacts on bird & bat species; curtailment, IdentiFlight & blade painting.
@ecolsocaus.bsky.social
@ecolsocaus.bsky.social
Tracy stepped-up for Skylos Ecology and presented on standards and best practices for using conservation dogs in mortality surveys at wind farms. 🦺
@ecolsocaus.bsky.social
@ecolsocaus.bsky.social
December 11, 2024 at 11:54 AM
Tracy stepped-up for Skylos Ecology and presented on standards and best practices for using conservation dogs in mortality surveys at wind farms. 🦺
@ecolsocaus.bsky.social
@ecolsocaus.bsky.social
🐕 Tuesday was all about the Detection Dogs in Ecological Research Symposium and the chance for all of us “conservation dog folk” to connect again. It was so inspiring to hear what others have been up to in this field lately. 👏 🐾 💚
@tasbiophiliac.bsky.social
@ecolsocaus.bsky.social
December 11, 2024 at 11:52 AM
🐕 Tuesday was all about the Detection Dogs in Ecological Research Symposium and the chance for all of us “conservation dog folk” to connect again. It was so inspiring to hear what others have been up to in this field lately. 👏 🐾 💚
@tasbiophiliac.bsky.social
@ecolsocaus.bsky.social
Fi and Tracy had a brilliant couple of days at the @ecolsocaus.bsky.social conference earlier this week! 🌿✨
December 11, 2024 at 11:45 AM
Fi and Tracy had a brilliant couple of days at the @ecolsocaus.bsky.social conference earlier this week! 🌿✨
Congratulations to our very own Tracy Lyten for winning the Out Standing in the Field: Ecologists in Action category at the Ecological Society of Australia conference photography competition! 📸🤩
#EcologyInAction #PhotographyCompetition #PartnershipForThePlanet #ESAus2024
#EcologyInAction #PhotographyCompetition #PartnershipForThePlanet #ESAus2024
Join us in congratulating our winners! #naturephotography #ecology
December 3, 2024 at 12:18 AM
Congratulations to our very own Tracy Lyten for winning the Out Standing in the Field: Ecologists in Action category at the Ecological Society of Australia conference photography competition! 📸🤩
#EcologyInAction #PhotographyCompetition #PartnershipForThePlanet #ESAus2024
#EcologyInAction #PhotographyCompetition #PartnershipForThePlanet #ESAus2024
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Join us in congratulating our winners! #naturephotography #ecology
December 2, 2024 at 10:17 PM
Join us in congratulating our winners! #naturephotography #ecology
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Renewable energy is key for our future, but do we fully understand the environmental trade offs?
Conservation detection dogs are helping us collect the most accurate data across the globe to help inform our management decisions.
Here is Arran conducting bird & bat mortality surveys in Australia.
Conservation detection dogs are helping us collect the most accurate data across the globe to help inform our management decisions.
Here is Arran conducting bird & bat mortality surveys in Australia.
November 13, 2024 at 11:09 AM
Renewable energy is key for our future, but do we fully understand the environmental trade offs?
Conservation detection dogs are helping us collect the most accurate data across the globe to help inform our management decisions.
Here is Arran conducting bird & bat mortality surveys in Australia.
Conservation detection dogs are helping us collect the most accurate data across the globe to help inform our management decisions.
Here is Arran conducting bird & bat mortality surveys in Australia.
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New paper! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... - Grant Linley et al.
Widespread resilience of animal species, functional diversity, and predator–prey networks to an unprecedented gigafire
Despite the unprecedented 2019–20 Australian wildfires, our landscape-scale analysis found most native terrestrial fauna exhibited widespread resilience. Using 192 wildlife cameras across 24 landscap...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 12, 2024 at 11:57 PM
New paper! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... - Grant Linley et al.
🚨🌾 Grass Seed Season Alert! 🌾🚨 It’s that time of year again. 😒
Grass seeds pose big dangers to our dogs! These pesky seeds can cause serious pain and health issues for our dogs 🐕, and are a serious biosecurity risk too 🌱🚫.
From the archives is our grass seed blog 💚
💻 lnkd.in/gWMPPdYX
Grass seeds pose big dangers to our dogs! These pesky seeds can cause serious pain and health issues for our dogs 🐕, and are a serious biosecurity risk too 🌱🚫.
From the archives is our grass seed blog 💚
💻 lnkd.in/gWMPPdYX
November 13, 2024 at 9:21 AM
🚨🌾 Grass Seed Season Alert! 🌾🚨 It’s that time of year again. 😒
Grass seeds pose big dangers to our dogs! These pesky seeds can cause serious pain and health issues for our dogs 🐕, and are a serious biosecurity risk too 🌱🚫.
From the archives is our grass seed blog 💚
💻 lnkd.in/gWMPPdYX
Grass seeds pose big dangers to our dogs! These pesky seeds can cause serious pain and health issues for our dogs 🐕, and are a serious biosecurity risk too 🌱🚫.
From the archives is our grass seed blog 💚
💻 lnkd.in/gWMPPdYX
Have a wonderful festive season!
December 25, 2023 at 10:53 AM
Have a wonderful festive season!
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There's a deep sense of sadness and loneliness seeing this record shattering graph.
November 17, 2023 was the first day in recorded history when the earth's surface was a whole 2°C hotter than pre-industrial times. Yet, there's barely any chatter about this staggering breach.
November 17, 2023 was the first day in recorded history when the earth's surface was a whole 2°C hotter than pre-industrial times. Yet, there's barely any chatter about this staggering breach.
November 20, 2023 at 4:41 AM
There's a deep sense of sadness and loneliness seeing this record shattering graph.
November 17, 2023 was the first day in recorded history when the earth's surface was a whole 2°C hotter than pre-industrial times. Yet, there's barely any chatter about this staggering breach.
November 17, 2023 was the first day in recorded history when the earth's surface was a whole 2°C hotter than pre-industrial times. Yet, there's barely any chatter about this staggering breach.
🎂 Happy 1st Birthday to our Arran!
🩵 He captured our hearts the moment we met him and has grown up to be the sweetest, coolest little dude. Here’s to many more years, and lots of adventures, with this great guy.
#birthdayboy
🩵 He captured our hearts the moment we met him and has grown up to be the sweetest, coolest little dude. Here’s to many more years, and lots of adventures, with this great guy.
#birthdayboy
December 15, 2023 at 8:42 PM
🎂 Happy 1st Birthday to our Arran!
🩵 He captured our hearts the moment we met him and has grown up to be the sweetest, coolest little dude. Here’s to many more years, and lots of adventures, with this great guy.
#birthdayboy
🩵 He captured our hearts the moment we met him and has grown up to be the sweetest, coolest little dude. Here’s to many more years, and lots of adventures, with this great guy.
#birthdayboy