Tender Details
The Hills Shire Council is inviting expressions of interest from environmental professionals to provide Threatened flora & fauna survey and survey support for Council’s ‘Biodiversity Conservation Mapping’ (BCM) program.
The purpose of the BCM program is to provide the information necessary to inform conservation planning across Council teams. In the short term, the project will collate and analyse data on the nature and extent of biodiversity within the Shire. These data will be analysed and extrapolated to provide likelihood mapping of high conservation value lands. As over 90% of the bushland in the Shire is in private ownership, biodiversity mapping will concentrate on private lands, complemented by existing survey on Council and National Park tenures.
The project is being coordinated by Council’s Flora & Fauna Projects Officer (Sustainability Team), with collaboration from the Parks & Reserves team and a range of community groups.
Successful applicants will be required to undertake a wide range of survey and support tasks, which may include night and early morning work. Tasks are likely to include:
· Independent targeted flora survey on private lands
· Liaison with landowners (arranging access, engaging and educating)
· Installation and maintenance of survey equipment
· Diurnal bird, reptile and amphibian survey
· Assisted nocturnal survey & survey support
It is envisaged that targeted flora survey will comprise the vast bulk of work undertaken.
The program is to take place across The Hills Shire Council area and will run until at least 29 April 2009. Possibilities for extending the program are presently under investigation.
