Biosis Pty Ltd is an environmental consultancy firm in Australia. The company provides ecological, heritage, environmental planning and GIS services for business, government and community organisations. It works from several offices in south-eastern Australia, with its head office in Melbourne.

Company history

Biosis Pty Ltd was founded in 1983 as Biosis Research Pty Ltd by

ecologist Ecology () is the study of the relationships between living organisms, including humans, and their physical environment. Ecology considers organisms at the individual, population, community, ecosystem, and biosphere level. Ecology overlaps wi ...

Charles Meredith and several colleagues from an earlier venture called ABRG (Australian Biological Research Group). The company was among the first ecological consultancies in Australia. In 1995, Biosis purchased the archaeological consulting firm of du Cros & Associates, run by

Hilary du Cros Hillary du Cros is an Australian archaeologist and cultural tourism teacher in Hong Kong and Macau. She is currently Associate Professor, Hong Kong Institute of Education, teaching in the area of Cultural Tourism in the Department of Cultur ...

, after having been co-located for some years, adding archaeological and heritage research to its business. Meredith sold his share in the firm to senior members of staff in 2012. The firm has a proprietary limited structure registered in Australia.

Operation

Biosis Pty Ltd has undertaken several thousand consultancy projects in the fields of botany, zoology, aquatic ecology, Aboriginal and historic archaeology and cultural heritage in eastern Australia. It was one of the first specialist ecological and heritage consultancy firms to be established at a time when environmental issues were generally the realm of volunteer, community and government organisations. The company has eight offices in south-eastern Australia, including Melbourne, Ballarat and Wangaratta in Victoria, and Albury, Newcastle, Sydney, Western Sydney and Wollongong in NSW. Its head office is at 38 Bertie Street,

Port Melbourne, Victoria Port Melbourne is an inner-city suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, south-west of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the Cities of Melbourne and Port Phillip local government areas. Port Melbourne recorded a populat ...

Research and publication

The company espouses

best practice A best practice is a method or technique that has been generally accepted as superior to other known alternatives because it often produces results that are superior to those achieved by other means or because it has become a standard way of doing ...

and independence in its work. It has produced several thousand ecological and heritage reports, including conservation management plans, archaeological surveys and heritage studies, for example the Bittern coastal

wetland conservation Wetland conservation is aimed at protecting and preserving areas where water exists at or near the Earth's surface, such as swamps, marshes and bogs. Wetlands cover at least six per cent of the Earth and have become a focal issue for conservation ...

plan. The company has been particularly active in developing bird strike risk models for

wind farms Wind is the natural movement of air or other gases relative to a planet's surface. Winds occur on a range of scales, from thunderstorm flows lasting tens of minutes, to local breezes generated by heating of land surfaces and lasting a few h ...

throughout Australia, which has helped form case law under legislation dealing with climate change. Biosis was awarded jointly the 2012

Australian Institute of Landscape Architects The Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA) is the Australian non profit professional institute formed to serve the mutual interests of Australian landscape architects. History The AILA was established in 1966 with an interim commit ...

Land Management Award for its development of the Aurora Conservation Reserve Management Plan, and was a collaborative partner in Australian Research Council funded research on threatened bird species in 2009. Australian Research Council Increasing the effectiveness of Australian threatened bird conservation

References

External links

Company website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Biosis Pty Ltd Cultural heritage consultants Companies based in Melbourne Privately held companies of Australia Australian companies established in 1983