Conservation Science and Managment

We work alongside landholders, community organisations, government partners, and Traditional Owners to design and deliver conservation initiatives across diverse Tasmanian and mainland landscapes. Our approach combines strong ecological expertise with local priorities, ensuring that actions are practical, collaborative, and viable.

Our team brings high-level skills in research, monitoring, and evaluation, and we provide pragmatic conservation planning that leads to tangible, on-ground outcomes.

We lead research that addresses complex conservation challenges and develops practical solutions. Our team includes recognised leaders in acoustic monitoring and threatened bird research, threatened orchid propagation and ex-situ translocation, as well as assisted migration trials, for example the critically endangered Morribsyi gum, (delivered in collaboration with the University of Tasmania and other partners).

We work to protect and recover threatened plants, animals, and vegetation communities through targeted conservation actions, specialising in programs that improve the conservation status of species most at risk. Our recovery programs are developed and implemented in partnership with landowners, industry, community groups, and government agencies. We have a team of threatened species specialists supported by Dr Magali Wright (one of our Enviro-dynamics Directors) who is the current Chair of the Scientific Advisory Committee for threatened species.

Enviro-dynamics broader services include targeted threatened species surveys, conservation action planning, browsing protection, ex situ translocations, and conservation status assessments.

Effective conservation depends on understanding what works. Our team brings advanced expertise in research, monitoring, and evaluation to ensure that programs deliver measurable outcomes. We design frameworks that track ecological change, assess management effectiveness, and provide clear evidence to support adaptive decision-making.

Our Managing Director, Dr Josie Kelman, holds a PhD in management effectiveness evaluation and has led the design and delivery of evaluation approaches across diverse landscapes and conservation programs. Under her leadership, we combine rigorous scientific methods with practical field experience, ensuring that results are both credible and useful to partners and land managers.

At Enviro-dynamics, we have expertise in GIS mapping and analysis, translating complex data into clear insights that can support decision making.

Our capabilities include connectivity and corridor modelling, carbon accounting and sequestration modelling, vegetation fragmentation analysis, threatened raptor mortality modelling, biodiversity significance mapping, threatened species habitat modelling, viewshed and watershed analysis, and multi-criteria assessments. These tools help prioritise, test options, and identify risks, giving clients the information they need to make informed decisions. We ensure results are grounded, actionable, and directly aligned with on-ground goals.

Enviro-dynamics uses a combination of desktop analysis and field surveys to map and assess habitat and vegetation condition. We have extensive experience in vegetation condition assessments (VCA’s) across Tasmania (and the mainland) and we have developed tools to support these assessments providing baseline data that can be tracked over time to monitor change. We have team members accredited with the Accounting for Nature framework.

Our assessments measure the impacts on habitat and vegetation condition including clearing, inappropriate fire regimes, over browsing, erosion and weeds, pests and diseases. The results guide management decisions, project planning, and restoration techniques, and on-ground works.

Enviro-dynamics develops strategies to address climate vulnerability across species, landscapes, and communities. Our capabilities cover diverse aspects of land management and conservation, from assisted migration trials of native species and pasture trials for grazing management to contributions to State of Environment reporting.

We collaborate with universities, NGOs, specialists, and researchers to design and test practical approaches. Whole of river restoration projects show the level of cooperation needed to support threatened species, and the role of communities, organisations, and government in implementing evidence-based conservation.