Value Adding
AGL Pipelines Ltd
Collins Bros
Gold Coast Airport Ltd
National Geographic Society
Port of Nagoya Public Aquarium
Raine Island Corporation
Silveritage Worldwide Management Sdn Bhd
Stanbroke Pastoral Company
The Australian Bilby
aei was approached by the Client because its State Infrastructure Corridor was planned to transect habitat of one of Australia's popular threatened species (the bilby).
Our solution was a pipeline route that could be seen to minimize any potential impact on a significant bilby population.
aei skills involved included -
Value added to the Client by the work included that predicted major by-pass routing was avoided, a cost estimated likely to have been in excess of $10 million. Keep Australia Beautiful Award, Business Council of Australia, 2001.
Other projects during the past decade have ranged from residential land developments through other endangered species in the field in Australia to the creation of the most substantial colony of one of Australia's scarcest and attractive kangaroos (the yellow-footed rock-wallaby) in Hibiki Zoo, Kitakyushu, Japan.
The Collins Family approached aei to stop on-going resumption of its land for national park purposes. Our solution was to demonstrate the effective management of the landholders in the face of uncertain alternatives. The aei skills involved -
Value added to the Client included formal submissions to Commonwealth Parliamentary Inquiries - with proposals adopted following scientific manuscripts to international journals, safety maps for Emergency Services use to minimize risks, and appropriate components of a definitive Family history book.
Other projects during the past decade have ranged from justifying discontinuation of national park resumption of the largest stand of brigalow forest remaining in Australia to Development Approvals and Court Orders for Approval to be issued to permit land development schemes to proceed.
Example: Schematic vegetation
Booklet: Strategic Environmental
Land Plan, Volume 1
The Client sought the experience of aei to develop a strategic, whole-of-catchment environment approach to establish its community credentials and facilitate development approvals. Our solution was to establish a set of land offsets that would result in a demonstrable net gain in habitat from its historically-disturbed site.
The aei skills involved included -
The value to the Clients is being established (in forms ranging from land exchanges to carbon and mitigation credits) over the long timeframe of environmental banking.
One of AEI's National Geographic
books, being reprinted annually at
almost 50 times the rate of
comparable Australian-published
books.
The aei skills involved included providing -
The value to Clients of environmental productions is evident in worldwide sales, all returning profits and tax savings.
aei was approached by the Client because of the need to access appropriate new and interesting knowledge of the Australian and related Antarctic environments for major educational and entertainment display purposes.
Port of Nagoya Public Aquarium
Our solution was to conceive, design, plan and stock exhibits that fitted to the overall Aquarium theme (of the historic route past Australia of Japan's first fisheries research vessel "Fuji")
aei skills involved -
Other projects include planning (presently underway) to institute a state-of-the-art environmental study centre for educational purposes. This has involved ensuring that the wishes of the major Benefactor are respected and the land's ecology is secure and self-sustaining. As Training Supervisor to l'Ecole Polytechnique (France), aei has maintained since 1993 an international role in education about the environment of Australia.
Relating management information to
results being achieved on
Raine Island
aei was invited by the Client to review the legislation, funding, research programs and heritage conservation works that would meet the stringent requirements to conserve this unique Australian sea turtle and seabird nesting site.
Our solution was to assemble all available management information and relate this to results being achieved by the leading island conservation managers - the Smithsonian Institution, for the Galapagos Islands.
aei skills involved included -
Other projects related to philanthropic works for environmental purposes have included assisting to constitute the Wetlands & Grasslands Foundation of Australia.
Peninsular Malaysia
aei was invited by the Client to be the environmental member of an international team commissioned by the State Government of Perak to plan its tourism and industrial business strategies. Our solution was to compile the first comprehensive review of environmental resources and to prioritise these in terms of potential tourism ventures likely to attract government approvals and international venture capital.
aei skills involved included -
Similar projects in Australia have included (with Taylor Byrne Tourism) being commissioned to prepare the Tourism Strategic Plans for the Darling Downs, Granite Belt and Golden West of Queensland.
One of Australia's arid zones
The Client approached aei to review its environmental issues and develop an appropriate environmental management system for its 13 million hectares of properties. Our solution was to institute a comprehensive digital database to which resource information could continue to be added and from which priority management actions could be recognized and actioned.
aei skills involved included -
Similar projects have been undertaken for other major rangeland holders, particularly in the arid zone of Australia where 'clean and green' foods can best be produced for international marketplaces, where eco-tourism can be built on the flexible styles that are consistent with the highly dynamic natural resources, and where Native Title, National Park and other community interests can benefit from the cost-efficient infrastructures of the pastoral industry.
Selected aei projects
Collins Bros
Gold Coast Airport Ltd
National Geographic Society
Port of Nagoya Public Aquarium
Raine Island Corporation
Silveritage Worldwide Management Sdn Bhd
Stanbroke Pastoral Company
Australian Gas Pipelines - national energy resource providers
Diamantina River basin, western Queensland, 1997-99The Australian Bilby
aei was approached by the Client because its State Infrastructure Corridor was planned to transect habitat of one of Australia's popular threatened species (the bilby).
Our solution was a pipeline route that could be seen to minimize any potential impact on a significant bilby population.
aei skills involved included -
- Surveying and mapping the distribution of the bilby colonies
- Preparing an Endangered Species Management Plan appropriate to the legislation
- Advising the construction firm on an acceptable pipeline route
- Monitoring any impacts during and after installation
- Reporting on future management of significant new findings.
Value added to the Client by the work included that predicted major by-pass routing was avoided, a cost estimated likely to have been in excess of $10 million. Keep Australia Beautiful Award, Business Council of Australia, 2001.
Other projects during the past decade have ranged from residential land developments through other endangered species in the field in Australia to the creation of the most substantial colony of one of Australia's scarcest and attractive kangaroos (the yellow-footed rock-wallaby) in Hibiki Zoo, Kitakyushu, Japan.
Collins Family - Queensland landholders since European settlement
Central western Queensland, 1996-2002The Collins Family approached aei to stop on-going resumption of its land for national park purposes. Our solution was to demonstrate the effective management of the landholders in the face of uncertain alternatives. The aei skills involved -
- Reviewing the uses of the land over time
- Vegetation mapping at property planning scale
- Preparing technical reports on the historic vegetation changes
- Mapping settlement trails and tourist tracks
- Locating additional business opportunities
- Determining landholder strategies and tactics for property planning purposes.
Value added to the Client included formal submissions to Commonwealth Parliamentary Inquiries - with proposals adopted following scientific manuscripts to international journals, safety maps for Emergency Services use to minimize risks, and appropriate components of a definitive Family history book.
Other projects during the past decade have ranged from justifying discontinuation of national park resumption of the largest stand of brigalow forest remaining in Australia to Development Approvals and Court Orders for Approval to be issued to permit land development schemes to proceed.
Example: Schematic vegetation
early 19th century
mid-20th century
late 20th century
mid 21st century
Gold Coast International Airport - expanding an airport & business complex to link to Asia
Queensland-New South Wales, 2003Booklet: Strategic Environmental
Land Plan, Volume 1
The Client sought the experience of aei to develop a strategic, whole-of-catchment environment approach to establish its community credentials and facilitate development approvals. Our solution was to establish a set of land offsets that would result in a demonstrable net gain in habitat from its historically-disturbed site.
The aei skills involved included -
- Reviewing the history of the land and its uses
- Devising environmental strategies to justify development plans
- Surveying vegetation at the individual plant level for Development Approval Applications
- Proposing and justifying offset land purchases.
The value to the Clients is being established (in forms ranging from land exchanges to carbon and mitigation credits) over the long timeframe of environmental banking.
National Geographic Society - Publishers of National Geographic Magazine
aei was invited to provide the Client with new and extremely accurate environmental information that would withstand protracted international audience scrutiny. Our solution was to draw on the in-house experience and results of our personnel through texts and illustrative material and scientific editorial review.
One of AEI's National Geographic
books, being reprinted annually at
almost 50 times the rate of
comparable Australian-published
books.
The aei skills involved included providing -
- Accurate up-to-date knowledge of Australian resources and experts in these fields
- Semi-technical writing and scientific editorial skills
- Access to suitable illustrations.
The value to Clients of environmental productions is evident in worldwide sales, all returning profits and tax savings.
Port of Nagoya Public Aquarium - the world's premier environmental education facility
Japan 1988 to ongoingaei was approached by the Client because of the need to access appropriate new and interesting knowledge of the Australian and related Antarctic environments for major educational and entertainment display purposes.
Port of Nagoya Public Aquarium
Our solution was to conceive, design, plan and stock exhibits that fitted to the overall Aquarium theme (of the historic route past Australia of Japan's first fisheries research vessel "Fuji")
aei skills involved -
- Identifying topics that would be serve appealing display purposes
- Preparing or examining design plans
- Stocking displays with attractive species, sometimes rare and endangered
- Providing relevant up-to-date husbandry information
- Accessing and commissioning appropriate artworks
- Collaborating professionally over the long-term with one of the world's premier advertising agencies (Dentsu Inc.)
- Proposing research & education programs and delivering staff & public addresses.
Other projects include planning (presently underway) to institute a state-of-the-art environmental study centre for educational purposes. This has involved ensuring that the wishes of the major Benefactor are respected and the land's ecology is secure and self-sustaining. As Training Supervisor to l'Ecole Polytechnique (France), aei has maintained since 1993 an international role in education about the environment of Australia.
Raine Island Corporation - not-for-profit custodians of the principal biological island of the Great Barrier Reef (World Heritage Area)
1988-1990Relating management information to
results being achieved on
Raine Island
aei was invited by the Client to review the legislation, funding, research programs and heritage conservation works that would meet the stringent requirements to conserve this unique Australian sea turtle and seabird nesting site.
Our solution was to assemble all available management information and relate this to results being achieved by the leading island conservation managers - the Smithsonian Institution, for the Galapagos Islands.
aei skills involved included -
- Securing and justifying the original funds
- Accessing and interpreting all existing field data
- Conducting professional discussions with appropriate technical personnel in the Smithsonian and in US philanthropy
- Compiling suitable, practicable reports
- Revising corporate imagery, promotion and marketing.
Other projects related to philanthropic works for environmental purposes have included assisting to constitute the Wetlands & Grasslands Foundation of Australia.
Silveritage Worldwide Sdn Bhd - a principal land developer
Peninsular Malaysia 1998 - 2004Peninsular Malaysia
aei was invited by the Client to be the environmental member of an international team commissioned by the State Government of Perak to plan its tourism and industrial business strategies. Our solution was to compile the first comprehensive review of environmental resources and to prioritise these in terms of potential tourism ventures likely to attract government approvals and international venture capital.
aei skills involved included -
- Accessing Malaysian reference material & technical personnel
- Field surveying regional locations
- Compiling and presenting concept plans, with particular regard to environmental and development corridors
- Introducing international eco-tourism operators.
Similar projects in Australia have included (with Taylor Byrne Tourism) being commissioned to prepare the Tourism Strategic Plans for the Darling Downs, Granite Belt and Golden West of Queensland.
Stanbroke Pastoral Company - Australia's largest corporate landholder
Northern Australia 1990-2002One of Australia's arid zones
The Client approached aei to review its environmental issues and develop an appropriate environmental management system for its 13 million hectares of properties. Our solution was to institute a comprehensive digital database to which resource information could continue to be added and from which priority management actions could be recognized and actioned.
aei skills involved included -
- Mapping and checking distribution of vegetation and other resources
- Compiling and justifying priority Action Plans, including monitoring programs
- Advising on relevant legislation
- Assisting in meetings with government agencies and Ministers of the Crown
- Advancing non-core business opportunities arising from the resources located
- Defining Heritage Preserves for local ownership/management.
Similar projects have been undertaken for other major rangeland holders, particularly in the arid zone of Australia where 'clean and green' foods can best be produced for international marketplaces, where eco-tourism can be built on the flexible styles that are consistent with the highly dynamic natural resources, and where Native Title, National Park and other community interests can benefit from the cost-efficient infrastructures of the pastoral industry.
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