Rangeland Repatriation
TERRESTRIAL Ecosystems was the sole provider of terrestrial fauna management services for the construction of the $35b on and off-shore Wheatstone LNG project. Working between November 2011 and July 2018, the company had to remove or “deconstruct” more than 100 large termite mounds that were scattered across the landscape. In doing so, it recorded 34,646 individual vertebrate fauna – including a diverse range of reptiles, an abundance of frogs and a smaller but important number of feral and pest species – that had made the mounds their own micro-habitat. Terrestrial Ecosystems partner and principal zoologist Scott Thompson said the work had been highly varied, including catching and relocating fauna during the vegetation clearing programs, removing fauna from the village and…