Wildlife Services
Wildlife
ECC is a conservation-based consultancy, where Wildlife management plays an important part of our conservation services. Services include; Species Management Plan, General Wildlife Assessment, and Camera Trap Analysis.
Specie Management Plans identify and address the long term sustainability of wildlife populations by improving genetic and demographic management potential with a series of clear goals and agreements to which an organization (and their partners) agree or aspire to achieve.
Assess wildlife populations, dynamics, herd structure and estimated breeding potential
Camera Trap Analysis analyze camera trap images that was collected in a certain area. Depending on the subject, the analysis can have a general wildlife assessment or species specific.
Captive Animal Services
The experiences ECC gained within the intensive zoological management aspects form a paramount link between Architecture and their designs. Due to species uniqueness, ECC in collaboration with an Architectural team during the design phase ensures the compliance of national, regional and international species management standards and relevant legislation.
Institutions holding wildlife in captivity will need to fulfill in their basic needs. Setting up an animal management plan will provide the institution with specific information that ensures everyone involved in caring for wildlife in their facility meet the minimum standards.
The experiences ECC gained within the intensive zoological management aspects form a paramount link between Architecture and their designs. Due to species uniqueness, ECC in collaboration with an Architectural team during the design phase ensures the compliance of national, regional and international species management standards and relevant legislation.
In captive animal facilities, the replacement of wire barriers to an exhibit-specific Ha-Ha wall system becomes more frequently used as it provides an open, naturalistic environment.
One of the most noticeable information boards within a captive animal facility would be the Animal Information Boards at an exhibit. Animal Information boards are unique to each facility as it offers visitors information about the species without a lot of words.
Provide training to a range of staff in captive animal management and data acquisition and management in protected areas.
Environmental Consultations
Environmental Services
ECC has regional and international management experience that can assist you in Environmental Management Plans, Environmental Spatial Analysis, Biodiversity Assessments, Game Farm Management Plans, and Field Assessments
Environmental Management Plans are a tool to ensure that the impact of operation is prevented and the steps you take to benefit the project and the environment in a positive way.
Environmental Spatial Analysis is the use of an assortment of spatial data and an analytic approach to building complex algorithms that can help solve environmental-related issues.
Biodiversity Assessments look at the variety and richness of species within a specific environment.
Game Farm Management Plans assist the organization to monitor and analyze all activities on a Game Farm. The Plan includes management structure, operational management, ecological, species management, and eco-tourism. The plan provide a holistic approach to ensure that everyone involved in the Game Farm knows what the purpose, goal, and actions would be.
Field Assessments review management practices and to analyze the condition of the field. An Assessment report will include the current state of the field and would point out factors that influence the performance of the assessed area.
Spatial Analyses
Drone-based mapping, using a range of photographic sensors and photogrammetry software, an area can be mapped in high quality.
The post-processing results in an orthophotomosaic, with the edition of a 3D model and Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) as standard output.
Measurements include basic measurements of any object visible in the imagery besides more complex measurements, e.g. 3D-based volumetric measurements in comparison to the ground level; this can include excavations and stockpile measurements.
Near-Infrared or Red Edge spectral images can be used to extract among others, vegetation. With a combination of the Red spectrum, NDVIs can be calculated. The NDVI provides plant health status and can be of great value for the agriculture and conservation industries, where the health status of vegetated areas are of importance.
Client-specific, customized, automated objects extraction for a range of visible object within the surveyed data, are available. Examples include wildlife counting and morphometric data extraction, vegetation species-specific data extraction, geographical feature extraction, and habitat mapping.
Digitising drone-based imagery data to be used in a GIS. The data include raster and vector data types. In a range of file formats like KML, .shp, .tiff & PDF. With customised projection as per the customer’s needs to ensure easy integration with existing geo-databases.
A GIS analysis of post-processed, drone-based data can include the following: cut and fill analysis, watershed, contour, point pattern analysis and hotspot analysis.
