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Restore Hibiscus and Bays Freshwater Monitoring Plan

CLIENT: Viridis Environmental Consultants

EXPERT: Annabelle Coates and Brittany Pearce (Viridis Environmental Consultants)

About this resource

Annabelle Coates and Brittany Pearce (Viridis Environmental Consultants) provided Restore Hibiscus and Bays (RHB) advice to help the group develop a freshwater monitoring plan. This plan was designed to meet RHB’s objectives of assessing and monitoring the ecological health of key catchments within the Hibiscus and Bays area.

The monitoring plan identified:

  • Monitoring sites within target catchments that are both representative of the area’s ecological conditions and easily accessible for community/staff members.
  • Repeatable, simple moniroing methods and parameters that can be easily collected by non-experts.
  • Methods for interpreting and analysing the collected data that results in outputs understandable and applicable to the community, aiding in informed decision-making.

You can read the full plan here. (PDF, 5.70 MB)

Credits

This case completed thanks to Viridis Environmental Consultants and RHB.

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