Monitoring of Marine Megafauna
Between 5 and 15 June 2026, Nature Conservation Consultants (NCC) successfully completed the ASI-II Hellenic Trench vessel survey, covering all planned transects from Paxoi island to South Eastern Crete. The survey has been implemented in the framework of LIFE…
Recording and monitoring of the avifauna on rocky islets
The NCC contributes to our knowledge of the avifauna of the Aegean rocky islets in various ways, in particular through the installation of recording devices such as microphones and automatic cameras. The recordings made with automatic cameras are particularly valuable…
New BirdWeather stations
The use of the BirdWeather platform represents a new and innovative approach, as it enables the automated detection and identification of birds through their calls. By utilizing field audio data, it becomes possible to continuously record the presence of species…
Mission to the Makares-Islands
On February 24th, the NCC team visited the island of Agios Nikólaos of the island group of Mákares east of Naxos, in order to install microphones, trail cameras and PTZ cameras on the Yelkouan shearwater colony. The goal is to study the breeding phenology of the…
Cooperation with the European Renewable Energy & Wildlife Consortium (ERWC)
At NCC we are proud founding members of the European Renewable Energy & Wildlife Consortium (ERWC). Together with leading ecological consultancies across Europe, we provide the robust, high-quality data required for responsible renewable energy development. We are…
Collaboration with the University of St Andrews in Scotland
NCC has begun a research collaboration with the University of St Andrews in Scotland, providing acoustic data for sperm whales, which have been collected over the past two years in the Greek Trench region and which will be used in a postgraduate thesis. This is an…
