ODONATA ADVISORY
A consulting service where 100% of profits are reinvested to save species and build biodiversity.
has been reinvested into Odonata’s programs and wildlife recovery work since 2018.
Welcome to Odonata Advisory
We are a professional fee-for-service social enterprise that harnesses two-decades of knowledge-building and expertise in the threatened species, conservation and landscape management sector.
We utilise in-house expertise, alongside trusted subject matter experts, to deliver niche services for business, government, First Nations groups, landholders and others seeking to establish sanctuaries, enhance natural capital and participate in nature repair and carbon offset markets.
Odonata Advisory services
Threatened species recovery
Odonata delivers strategic advice and implementation services for threatened species recovery. This includes threat reduction, species reintroduction, genetic recovery and population management, supported by world-leading recovery models.
Commercial projects
Odonata provides specialist biodiversity advice on commercial projects, creating nature-positive solutions for diverse applications. We work with private landholders, government, not-for-profits and progressive organisations.
Sanctuary establishment and management
Odonata helps private and public land managers determine land suitability for hosting endangered species. We offer guidance on predator-free sanctuary design, fencing options, revegetation and land management methods for optimal threatened species outcomes.
Biodiverse urbanism
Odonata provides options to help balance population growth with conservation through biodiversity-sensitive urban design principles. We provide practical applications for valuing existing biodiversity, and work with landscape architects and urban designers to embed nature as a core component of the urban landscape – benefiting communities and protecting flora and fauna.
Enhancing natural capital and securing offsets
We manage land assets for ecological outcomes, including threat mitigation (feral and weed management, fire management), technology innovations, skilled monitoring, and comprehensive reporting that ensures regulatory compliance and to secure offsets.
Nature positive offset project design
Odonata works with project designers to create tailored offset solutions for species, vegetation, or carbon. We aim to design voluntary and regulatory offset projects for exceptional nature positive outcomes that deliver more than minimum requirements. Our offset projects amplify biodiversity, community, social, and economic outcomes, whilst securing financial returns to ensure project longevity and sustainability.
Let’s work together
For enquiries, quotes and just a good old yarn about our service offering please contact Amy Cockroft, Advisory Lead.
Odonata Advisory’s collaborative approach demonstrates that well-designed projects can deliver better conservation and community outcomes – without additional cost.
Success in the field
1 | Thriving wetlands restoration programs
Tilt Renewables approached Odonata when designing a program to protect fragile brolga populations in western Victoria. Odonata has overseen habitat restoration of four critical wetlands which support brolga breeding. Odonata’s ecologists continue to monitor and manage the wetlands, which has delivered far greater biodiversity outcomes beyond the regulatory requirements.
Odonata Advisory’s collaborative approach demonstrated that well-designed projects can deliver better conservation and community outcomes – without additional cost – while supporting Australia’s essential transition to renewable energy.
2 | Unlocking nature repair potential on private property
Odonata Advisory worked closely with private landholders of a degraded 400ha property in West Gippsland, Victoria. Throughout the consultation period, Odonata Advisory explored the nature repair potential at the site, by layering biodiversity outcomes and financial returns for maximum impact.
A plan has been mapped, supporting native species revegetation to encourage endemic fauna back to the area, with the long view of exploring the viability of a threatened species sanctuary once habitat has been restored.
Odonata Advisory profits are reinvested to save species
Without advisory services income, Odonata would not be advancing its mission to save species at the scale and pace we have been able to achieve. We have our clients to thank for that.
✓ Odonata is leading the most successful semi-wild breeding program of the southern brush-tailed rock-wallaby (just 50 remain in the wild).
✓ Worked tirelessly with others to downlist the eastern barred bandicoot from extinct in the wild to endangered, with 80% of the remaining population in Odonata’s care across our sanctuaries.
✓ Work is underway to secure 9 core threatened species to prevent imminent extinction.