Elinor is a Senior Ecologist with over seven years’ experience in ecological consultancy. She is accredited by the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning to undertake native vegetation (habitat hectare assessments) in Victoria, holds a Construction Industry White Card, Level 2 First Aid and Accreditation to Access Rail Corridors Safely. Elinor lives on a farm in Victoria’s Western District, 35 kilometres south of Ararat, and thus offers region-specific ecological and landscape knowledge to Nature Advisory’s western Victorian clients.

An experienced field ecologist with a high degree of attention to detail, Elinor is completion oriented and possesses strong problem solving and communication skills. These have come to the fore during her involvement with a number of large renewable energy projects, in which she has provided technical expertise over several years, to assist in taking projects from feasibility study through construction and operation.

Ecological assessment work has included rapid overview assessments, detailed vegetation mapping and habitat hectare assessments, targeted flora and fauna surveys and offset site surveys. She regularly conducts assessments under the Guidelines for the removal, destruction or lopping of native vegetation 2017 (as well as preceding Victorian native vegetation legislation) and the federal Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999.

Elinor has also been involved in the preparation of a number of land management plans, particularly within the grasslands and grassy woodlands of the Victorian Volcanic Plain. She strongly believes in drawing on contemporary literature and applying an evidence-based approach to achieve the optimum outcome for management sites.