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Are you looking to manage your natural areas in a way that promotes biodiversity?

If managing your natural areas is not your core business, we can help you turn this constraint into a real opportunity! Our extensive experience with major companies, public and private structures, and the innovations we've tested in practice, enable us to offer you the best solutions for reconciling your technical constraints with ecological, biodiversity and societal issues. We implement solutions that take into account the natural and human context, while also taking into account the budgetary aspect.

You can also call on us to improve the biodiversity of your industrial or semi-natural sites. Ecofirst is one of the qualified biodiversity advisors in the Masterclass “Adviseur biodiversiteit en bedrijven” organized during the Interreg 2B Connect project.

Last but not least, we are also qualified to guide you on the issues of accommodating biodiversity in built elements: industrial or housing buildings, infrastructures (bridges, engineering structures, tunnels), ... Whether you need to take better account of regulations during your day-to-day management, or to provide support for development sites and new constructions, we can help you identify potential and make the technical adjustments.

What we can offer you:

• Drawing up management plans for natural areas
• Proposals for “nature” installations: ponds, orchards, hedges, flower meadows, plantations, installation of nesting boxes and lodges in buildings, etc.
• Support for building projects (including diagnosis of existing biodiversity)
• Proposals for vegetation management methods: forest expertise, control of invasive species, grazing, etc.
• Administrative procedures: drawing up specifications, contacting contractors, applying for planning permission, applying for subsidies, etc.

Would you like to assess the impact of your actions in favor of nature, or carry out a fauna and/or flora inventory?

We can support you with biological inventories tailored to your situation and needs. Thanks to our team of naturalist experts and a vast network of collaborators, we are able to mobilize the necessary resources (material and human), even for large-scale missions.

Depending on your budget and the biological groups to be inventoried, we work with you to define the most appropriate methodology (target groups, type of inventory, frequency, protocol followed).

Our fields of expertise cover: botany, ornithology, chiropterology, entomology, mammalogy, herpetology, etc. We can also map habitats (according to different typologies) and assess their conservation status.

With regard to our expertise in chiropterology (the study of bats), Ecofirst has highly qualified staff for:

• Capture (in compliance with health regulations and with anti-rabies vaccination)
• Telemetry (tracking using VHF and/or GPS tags)
• Active and passive acoustic detection and species identification based on recordings
• Consultancy in bat conservation (natural and built-up areas).

As for our expertise in ornithology (the study of birds), Ecofirst has highly qualified staff for:

• Migration monitoring
• Nesting period monitoring (listening points, transects, fixed stations, specific searches for nesting signs in discreet species, etc.)
• Monitoring of wintering populations
• Advice on avoiding, reducing and compensating for the impact of projects on birds
• Advice on bird-friendly developments (natural and built-up areas)
• Advice on managing problems of cohabitation with certain species
• GPS tagging of Black Storks

We also collaborate with various nature protection associations and consultancies to ensure that the various taxonomic groups we monitor are effectively integrated into your projects, and to offer you solutions tailored to their preservation.

Do you want to measure the effects of a wind farm project under development or of an existing wind farm on wildlife? Do you have questions that require additional expertise or the development of an additional study protocol to answer specific questions?

Our team of experts can support you in assessing project impacts or developing new tools, with particular attention to bats, Black Stork and other potentially sensitive bird species.

What we can offer you:

• Biological inventories
• Analysis and interpretation of data (whether collected by us or not)
• Summary of biological issues
• Proposals for land-use measures to favor targeted species
• Support for projects and offices in charge of regulatory studies, and proposals on how best to take into account the impact of projects on wildlife.

Thanks to a rigorous scientific approach and close collaboration with the various project stakeholders, our expertise can help you reconcile the production of renewable energy with the preservation of biodiversity.

Are you a woodland or forest owner looking for support in managing your property? Are you looking to boost sustainable forest management in a given area?

Ecofirst is deeply involved in the sustainable management of forests and natural environments. For several years now, we have been working closely with public and private forest owners to implement environmentally-friendly initiatives and enhance the value of their forest heritage.

Thanks to our experienced and personalized approach, we can help you reconcile economic management with the preservation of forest ecosystems, while maximizing the potential for biodiversity.

We also have experience in assisting local authorities in activating the timber industry, pooling management resources, reflecting on forestry-related orientations and reconciling its multiple roles (timber production, hunting, hosting tourism, ecosystem services, etc.).

What we can offer you:

• Forest management consulting
• Drafting of development and management plans
• Silvicultural support: planting, designating trees for harvesting, routing, monitoring work, marketing timber, etc.
• Precise geo-referenced inventory of trees of biological or economic interest, to optimize forest management.
• Administrative management: drafting of specifications, solicitation of contractors, support in applying for planning permission and subsidies.

Would you like to train yourself, your staff or your subcontractors in another method of managing vegetation and natural environments, or in the acoustic identification of bats? Ecofirst is a reference when it concerns training.

Numerous training modules have been developed for various projects:

• Differentiated management
• Field actions
• Landscape maintenance
• Acoustic identification of bats
• Use of data processing and analysis tools
• Parameterization of detectors
• ...

Depending on your needs, we can offer you a customized training program. Please contact us to discuss your project.

Do you have a project requiring high-quality aerial images or the use of a drone for promotional purposes? Do you have questions about implementing a remote sensing approach to facilitate the collection of field data? Projects involving 3D modeling of study subjects or future developments? Advice on current regulations and possible uses for this tool?

Ecofirst has a European-approved pilot, the equipment and the knowledge to carry out a wide range of tasks.

What we can offer you:

• Production of communication images and videos
• 3D photogrammetric modeling
• Aerial survey of linear routes
• Area and volume calculations for various applications: habitat evolution, agricultural damage, etc.
• Remote sensing: aerial recognition of invasive plants...
• ...

Ecofirst's aim is to apply these innovative tools to the ecological challenges of the customers, partners and organizations we work with.

The study of fauna using sound recordings is currently expanding. In addition to the well-known acoustic identification of bats, other groups are emerging: orthopterans, micro-mammals (including the hazel dormouse), birds, etc.

Our team counts two acousticians, both long-standing chiropterologists, who have also been exploring different ways to develop tools to find and identify other species, and in some cases, to recognize individuals.

Please do not hesitate to contact us if you would like to put these skills to good use in your project!

Do you need to produce a precise map of a natural area to guide your decisions? Are you looking for in-depth analysis and rigorous data processing?

We have developed advanced expertise in the mapping of natural environments, as well as in the analysis and processing of environmental data. We master every stage of the process, from field collection to data processing and final report.

In the field, our team operates with efficiency and precision. Rather than getting bogged down in superfluous details, we work with you to select the most relevant parameters for your objectives. Once the data has been collected, we build up a dynamic database that enables us to produce maps tailored to your situation, and track the evolution of natural environments over time.

We also ensure the compatibility of our deliverables with your IT management system, to guarantee smooth and efficient integration into your current tools.