Quality Assurance Policy
Bennelongia is committed to delivering best practice environmental assessment and management, based on accurate and reliable biological data.
Bennelongia will : –
- Use acknowledged experts to undertake species identification or confirm identification of voucher specimens of all invertebrate and plant species
- Maintain internal voucher systems and internal keys to ensure consistency and accuracy of species identification
- Train, educate and inform our employees about environmental issues that may affect their work.
- Lodge representative specimens of vouchered species with the Western Australian Museum and Western Australian Herbarium
- Investigate and document the reliability of all field survey techniques used
- Undertake rigorous logical and physical checking of data entered into databases
- Support moves for accreditation of biological data collection and environmental assessment
Bennelongia Expertise
Bennelongia staff have many years of policy and research experience in subterranean fauna, wetland ecology and invertebrate conservation gained while employed in the Department of Parks and Wildlife prior to setting up Bennelongia in 2007. Since then, they have undertaken more than 250 environmental impact assessments of subterranean fauna, short range endemic inverterbrates (SREs), waterbirds, shorebirds and wetlands and aim to continue undertaking high quality studies and assessments of fauna and wetlands.
Staff continue to publish widely in the scientific literature, describing new species, providing new methods of sampling fauna, and documenting the ecology of fauna to improve the context for impact assessments.