Founded in 1997, Dendroica Environnement et Faune is a wildlife consultant firm based in the Gatineau/Ottawa region providing a full range of professional and technical services in habitat and wildlife survey and monitoring programs throughout Québec, Eastern Ontario and northwest Canada. The strength of Dendroica’s team lies primarily in its ability to carry out mandates at the regional, provincial and national levels in all terrestrial ecosystems occurring in Canada. Since its beginning, Dendroica provides services to a wide variety of customers including landowners, government agencies, non-governmental organizations, industrial and residential development and engineering/environmental companies.

The species at risk recovery process is essential for populations to be able to increase in number and reach viable size. Since 2005, Dendroica Environnement et Faune offers services to a wide variety of customers in the acquisition of ecological knowledge, status assessment, restoration and protection of critical habitat for many species at risk on public and private lands to facilitate their recovery. Dendroica staff can wisely advise in the development of mitigation strategies for species at risk in various industrial development projects.

Integrating recreational activities within protected area boundaries is a challenge that today’s park managers are facing. Understanding the human impact on environment and biodiversity is therefore critical if one wants to maintain the ecological integrity of protected areas. Since 1998, Dendroica Environnement et Faune plans, coordinates and manages wildlife, plants and species at risk survey programs, within protected and proposed areas.

Integrated and ecosystem forest managements are increasingly important in forest landscapes throughout Canada and forest certification is now part of the current philosophy of this industry and governments. Since 1997, Dendroica Environnement et Faune is a leader in survey and monitoring programs of indicator species and species at risk in managed forests in Quebec and elsewhere in Canada.

Since 2004, Dendroica Environnement et Faune has coordinated and managed more than 10 wildlife survey programs for major environmental impacts studies and for a vast range of industrial projects in the Northwest Territories, Nunavut and Quebec. The great flexibility of our survey team as well as its great expertise in boreal, subarctic and arctic wildlife and ecosystems is an important asset that allows us to successfully complete these projects in a timely manner.

As the wind farm industry is rapidly growing in Canada, it must complies with federal and provincial environmental laws in order to protect or mitigate for wildlife such as migratory birds and bats during pre- and post-development projects. Since 2006, Dendroica Environnement et Faune excels in the management and coordination of survey and monitoring programs for migratory birds, bats and species at risk associated with environmental impact assessment studies of wind farms development in Ontario and in Québec.

A sustainable management of riparian habitat, streams and wetlands is critical to maintain biodiversity on the landscape scale. Since 2008, Dendroica Environnement et Faune provides professional and technical services to private landowners, residential development promoters and protected area managers in order to comply with environmental regulations.

The increase of the human population at proximity of urban centers is known to decrease the amount of available habitat for wildlife and species at risk. Fortunately, residential project promoters are increasingly aware of the importance of integrating the needs of wildlife in their projects in order to allow for a more sustainable development. Since 2005, Dendroica Environnement et Faune’s team has successfully managed numerous wildlife and environmental studies to help developers and private landowners to comply with the actual municipal, provincial and federal regulations.