Anouk Glad spent two years working on this topic as part of a postdoctoral fellowship in partnership with TerrOïko, which has just resulted in the publication of an article in the journal Ecological Modelling (*).

In it, Anouk details the work she has done with SimOïko, our species life simulation software.

Her goal was to improve the modeling of wild bees' movements when they go out to forage, taking into account the impact that the landscape can have on their movements and therefore on their pollination activity

Take a proactive local authority, two consulting firms with complementary expertise, and recommendations that can be immediately implemented in the field.

In a short time, you will see concrete changes that benefit biodiversity.

This is exactly what happened a few weeks ago in the town of Saint-Louis, in Alsace.

TerrOïko and DarkSkyLab were commissioned to identify the town's dark sky areas and propose associated public lighting management actions.

In just a few days, the local authority took action to implement several of our recommendations:

A thesis and you move on?

In fact, the opposite is true.

Three years ago, our colleague Jules Boileau finished his thesis on the integration of the ERC sequence (avoid, reduce, compensate) into regional planning.

Since then, he has been taking the message all over France. And the lines are moving in the regions.

We're sure you've already read the whole thing, but just in case...

Here's the link to the Green Engineering Roadmap: https://www.ecologie.gouv.fr/sites/default/files/documents/MTE_DGALN-Feuille-de-route-ingenierie.pdf

It was officially presented by the Ministry for Spatial Planning and Ecological Transition last week, and sets out the sector's priorities for 2030.

A few weeks ago, the PEP-BIOccIA project officially changed its name to Gaia predict.

 The new name reflects the project's mission: to map natural environments, predict the presence of species in the Occitanie region, and better plan the preservation of biodiversity. The term “Gaia” refers to the Earth. As for Prédict, it underlines the project's focus on predictive analysis and decision support for the sustainable management of our biodiversity.

You know what gives us the greatest pleasure?

Seeing that the studies we produce don't just sit on a shelf.

Better still, to see that they help public and private players alike to radically transform the strategic management of their territories, their land holdings or their projects, with benefits that sometimes go far beyond the mere preservation of biodiversity.

To better preserve biodiversity on an international scale, an article published today in the journal Landscape Ecology calls for a broad rethinking of the concept of “ecological networks”, as well as the causes of their fragmentation and the means to preserve them.

Is the accumulation of wind farms in the same area likely to have an impact on bird populations?

This is the subject of a study in which we recently participated, and whose main results we presented last week at the Rencontres de l'Observatoire des énergies renouvelables (EnR) et de la biodiversité, held at the French Ministry of the Environment and Ecological Transition.

You think we spend all our time behind a computer?
Well, not quite.

The day-to-day work of our ecological engineers involves conducting research, analyzing data and carrying out studies on behalf of public and private players.

So yes, most of the time we have our hands in statistics, modeling and mapping tools, scientific literature...

But when data or knowledge are lacking, we sometimes have to go out and find them, in the field.

A few days ago, our colleague Victor Gauducheau, a specialist in marine environments, cast off for a little trip out to sea.

This was the topic addressed today by our CEO Sylvain Moulherat at the FIRM25 event organized by FEHRL, the international association dedicated to road equipment research.

This presentation enabled him to go back over the Bison project, to which TerrOïko made a major contribution, and whose aim was to build a European roadmap for transport infrastructures that fully integrate ecological issues.