Air shows and demonstration flying displays create particularly vulnerable flying conditions for display pilots and their aircraft. High-tempo operations and low-level flying, often in formation, make them especially susceptible to bird strikes.
Avisure has been working with an arid region aerodrome on a feral cat program, using an innovative trap to reduce the number of these destructive predators. Feral cats breed very fast, and recent good seasons in the bush, with plentiful rainfall, have meant abundant native prey.
‘It is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.’ Integrated wildlife hazard management in aviation focuses on long-term, sustainable solutions beyond traditional pest control.
If you’re ever going to find an echidna getting up to mischief that might end up putting them in the wrong place at the wrong time it’ll be during August.
Avisure wildlife biologist, Martin Ziviani, on airport encounters of the spiky kind Read More »
Graduate wildlife biologists, Aaron Mocciaro and Maggie Murphy, joined Avisure a little over six months ago. Based in Avisure’s Melbourne office, they enjoy working with a mix of Defence and civil airports.
It has been five years since Ural Airlines Flight 178 became Russia’s answer to the ‘Miracle on the Hudson’.
New information on Russia’s ‘Miracle in the Cornfields’ Read More »
STARKVILLE, Miss.—From some 8,000 miles away, Mississippi State scientist Manuel Ruiz-Aravena in the university’s Forest and Wildlife Research Center is studying flying foxes, or fruit bats, in Australia to determine the likely causes of viral spillover from animal to human.
Elaine Anderson and Sanya Masood, graduate wildlife biologists, joined Avisure’s Southern regional team in September last year.
The title may sound scary, but data visualisation is a way of making the complex simple: in a nutshell, it is the art of presenting data and information as graphs, charts, or maps. Data visualisation is valuable in highlighting things that you might not otherwise see readily in text and lists of values and numbers, enabling your audience to grasp the key data more quickly and easily.
Avisure acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the lands and waters where we work. We pay deep respect to Elders past and present who hold the Songlines and Dreaming of this Country. We honour and support the continuation of educational, cultural and spiritual customs of First Nations peoples.
Acknowledgement artwork completed by Raymond Garrett, a Darumbal and Wulli Wulli Traditional Owner, 2021
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