Are you wondering about the relevance of ecological modelling techniques? You are quite right to do so.

The use of these tools is becoming increasingly widespread, not only in research, but also as a decision-making aid in the field for all those involved in land use planning and biodiversity conservation.

The problem is that in most cases, their reliability is never assessed. 

Since last April, TerrOïko has obtained Qualiopi certification, which validates the quality of our training programs (and allows the people we train to apply for public funding).

What do we offer? Learn how to use SimOïko, our animal life simulation software.

This is what the teams at the Charente Departmental Hunting Federation (FDC16) are currently doing.

This week, we are attending the 8th Conference on Wind energy and Wildlife impacts - CWW2025, the leading international event on wind energy and its interaction with biodiversity, which is being held in Montpellier (France) until Friday.

As part of the poster sessions, we are presenting a special feature of our ecological simulation software SimOïko, specifically designed to analyze the risk of collision between flying species and wind turbines.

Remember! At the end of December, we announced the winners of our call for projects involving the use of our SimOïko software.

Today, we take a closer look at one of the selected projects: that of Jeremie Solere, a CIFRE scholarship doctoral student. The project is jointly led by the Port of Marseille Fos and the UMR G-eau laboratory in Montpellier.

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:

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.

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.

We need to give you an update on our research project into fences and their ecological impact.

Launched in early 2024, the Polymor-FENCE project aims to analyze and understand the impact of fences associated with photovoltaic power plants on biodiversity and the ecological continuity of natural environments.

Using an integrated approach combining field observations, artificial intelligence and spatial modeling, the project is developing innovative tools designed to anticipate and mitigate these effects.

Last week, our CEO Sylvain Moulherat was invited to present our work on the subject at the Via Fauna technical seminar.

Via Fauna is a project launched in 2017 by the Fédération Régionale des Chasseurs d'Occitanie (Regional Federation of Hunters), which has led to the development of tools and methods for better integrating ecological connectivity into land-use planning projects and urban planning documents.