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Skylos Ecology

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Fi & Tracy working with their six conservation detection dogs for better environmental and economic outcomes.

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Skylos Ecology @skylosecology.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Dogs before data = Better data
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Skylos Ecology @skylosecology.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Language matters
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Skylos Ecology @skylosecology.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Wind farm work is physically demanding: there’s very early starts, long drives, working away from home, handlers walking 15–20km a day, post-survey data management, and providing 24/7 care to our dogs. This can go on for weeks or even months at a time. 🗓️
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Skylos Ecology @skylosecology.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
It is a requirement for teams to be regularly assessed on sites to determine their detection rates. These trials should: ✅ Be conducted independently (not by the company supplying the dog teams) for oversight and quality assurance.
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Skylos Ecology @skylosecology.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
At Skylos, we don’t see our dogs as “monitoring tools”—they are our co-workers and deserve the same care and welfare consideration as our handlers. This is documented in our Canine Welfare Policy. 📑
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Skylos Ecology @skylosecology.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Since 2012, we’ve been working at wind farms & we have 21 years of experience collecting bat & bird mortality data at sites across Australia.
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Skylos Ecology @skylosecology.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
🌬️ Last month, Director Tracy Lyten presented at @ecolsocaus.bsky.social conference on standards and best practice for wind farm mortality detection dogs. 🦇🦅
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Skylos Ecology @skylosecology.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Just a couple of Rogues in Australia! Thanks for our T-shirts @roguedogs.bsky.social!
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Skylos Ecology @skylosecology.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Just a boy and his Batty. 🦇 Couldn’t help but do a little comparison photoshoot after we found Batty today (who had gone M.I.A for quite some time!) 🔎 Arran at 2 months old ➡️ 2 years old.
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Skylos Ecology @skylosecology.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
The conference gave us the opportunity to finally meet some folks in person that we’ve been working with virtually for years! Plus, we got to spend quality time with some of our favourite people, who are all doing incredible work across Australia! @ecolsocaus.bsky.social @tasbiophiliac.bsky.social
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Skylos Ecology @skylosecology.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
We attended the Wind Energy & Wildlife Symposium, learning about improving decision-making in planning wind farm developments, post-construction mortality monitoring results, & solutions to minimise impacts on bird & bat species; curtailment, IdentiFlight & blade painting. @ecolsocaus.bsky.social
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Skylos Ecology @skylosecology.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Tracy stepped-up for Skylos Ecology and presented on standards and best practices for using conservation dogs in mortality surveys at wind farms. 🦺 @ecolsocaus.bsky.social
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Skylos Ecology @skylosecology.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
🐕 Tuesday was all about the Detection Dogs in Ecological Research Symposium and the chance for all of us “conservation dog folk” to connect again. It was so inspiring to hear what others have been up to in this field lately. 👏 🐾 💚 @tasbiophiliac.bsky.social @ecolsocaus.bsky.social
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Skylos Ecology @skylosecology.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Fi and Tracy had a brilliant couple of days at the @ecolsocaus.bsky.social conference earlier this week! 🌿✨
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Skylos Ecology @skylosecology.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Congratulations to our very own Tracy Lyten for winning the Out Standing in the Field: Ecologists in Action category at the Ecological Society of Australia conference photography competition! 📸🤩 #EcologyInAction #PhotographyCompetition #PartnershipForThePlanet #ESAus2024
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Ecological Society of Australia @ecolsocaus.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Join us in congratulating our winners! #naturephotography #ecology
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Jason Wiley 🏳️‍🌈 @jayd456.bsky.social · 09/10/2024
🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🫡🇺🇸
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Skylos Ecology @skylosecology.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Renewable energy is key for our future, but do we fully understand the environmental trade offs? Conservation detection dogs are helping us collect the most accurate data across the globe to help inform our management decisions. Here is Arran conducting bird & bat mortality surveys in Australia.
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Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
New paper! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... - Grant Linley et al.
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Widespread resilience of animal species, functional diversity, and predator–prey networks to an unprecedented gigafire
Despite the unprecedented 2019–20 Australian wildfires, our landscape-scale analysis found most native terrestrial fauna exhibited widespread resilience. Using 192 wildlife cameras across 24 landscap...
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Skylos Ecology @skylosecology.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
@bsky.app is starting to pop off and we are here for it 🍃
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Skylos Ecology @skylosecology.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
🚨🌾 Grass Seed Season Alert! 🌾🚨 It’s that time of year again. 😒 Grass seeds pose big dangers to our dogs! These pesky seeds can cause serious pain and health issues for our dogs 🐕, and are a serious biosecurity risk too 🌱🚫. From the archives is our grass seed blog 💚 💻 lnkd.in/gWMPPdYX
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Skylos Ecology @skylosecology.bsky.social · 25/12/2023
Have a wonderful festive season!
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Neelima Vallangi @neelima.bsky.social · 20/11/2023
There's a deep sense of sadness and loneliness seeing this record shattering graph. November 17, 2023 was the first day in recorded history when the earth's surface was a whole 2°C hotter than pre-industrial times. Yet, there's barely any chatter about this staggering breach.
Graph showing daily temperature anomaly hitting peak of 2.06°C  on November 17th, 2023 for the time period starting from 1940 to 2023.
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Skylos Ecology @skylosecology.bsky.social · 15/12/2023
🎂 Happy 1st Birthday to our Arran! 🩵 He captured our hearts the moment we met him and has grown up to be the sweetest, coolest little dude. Here’s to many more years, and lots of adventures, with this great guy. #birthdayboy
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Skylos Ecology @skylosecology.bsky.social · 13/12/2023
🌾 Grass Seed Season 🌾 From skin irritations and piercing, to potential infections, it’s the time of year when pesky grass seeds require our attention, both at work and at home. You can read about all our grass seed steps here: www.skylosecology.com/post/grass-seed-season-check-check-and-check-again
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Skylos Ecology @skylosecology.bsky.social · 10/12/2023
🌧️ A rainy day yesterday was the perfect opportunity to stay indoors and get into the festive spirit! ☃️🎄🐾 Happy Holidays everyone! www.instagram.com/reel/C0pSL-e...
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Rogue Detection Teams @roguedogs.bsky.social · 04/12/2023
Hello 💙☁️! If you don’t know us yet, we adopt 🎾 obsessed shelter dogs & give them a new lease on life as #WildlifeDogs! Our “Conservation Canines” sniff for clues on endangered species & assist wildlife research endeavors! We hope you’ll follow along in our adventures in conservation science!
A human hand & dog paw rest on the ground, for scale, next to wolf prints.
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Skylos Ecology @skylosecology.bsky.social · 04/12/2023
We start our surveys at first light during the summer months. #safetyfirst #conservationdogs #australiansummer #dogsbeforedata
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Skylos Ecology @skylosecology.bsky.social · 04/12/2023
🥵It’s feeling hot out there 🥵 #safetyfirst #conservationdogs #australiansummer #dogsbeforedata 📸 Look at this post on Facebook www.facebook.com/share/p/sFvv...
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Skylos Ecology @skylosecology.bsky.social · 03/12/2023
Glad to be part of the @bsky.app Fiona & Oakley (K9) enjoying another kind of blue sky in Silverton NSW whilst taking a rest after completing wind farm surveys. #conservationdogs #australia
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