Aerial Wildlife Management
Professional marksmanship · Landscape-scale outcomes
Specialist aerial marksmanship and control, built on Australian Government best practice with the operational discipline demanded by Tier-1 resource operators, councils, state agencies and broadacre agricultural corporations.
01 — Executive summary
Greyman OPS is an Australian owned and operated specialist provider of aerial wildlife-management services, focused on landscape-scale management and humane destruction of invasive species — including feral pigs, deer, camels and other priority vertebrate biosecurity risks. We design and deliver programs that are strategic, humane, auditable and demonstrably cost-effective — not ad-hoc shoots bolted onto mustering or other activities.
Our work is evidence-led. It aligns with the National Codes of Practice and Standard Operating Procedures for the humane control of feral pigs, deer and other invasive vertebrates1,2,3. The National Feral Pig Action Plan identifies aerial shooting as “an effective and relatively cost-effective method of quickly reducing feral pig populations” in extensive or inaccessible country4.
Aerial and ground humane destruction programs at landscape scale. Thermal-assisted aerial culling (TAAC), ground-team support, program design, and in-house RPAS thermal surveys — pre-program density mapping and post-program outcome verification, flown under our own CASA ReOC — for feral pigs9, deer10, camels11, goats12 and other declared vertebrate pests.
Active mine leases, municipal land, national-park interface, broadacre cropping, irrigated horticulture, livestock grazing and environmental offset areas. Programs are designed against the species-specific National Codes of Practice and NATSOPs published on the PestSmart toolkits9.
Operating mines; regional, state and federal government; corporate agriculture; Natural Resource Management (NRM) groups; farming syndicates and other landscape-scale landholders.
Significant logistics resources — current Category C and D firearms, a substantial inventory of high-capacity magazines and spare parts — and accreditation depth that keeps the aircraft on target, not on the ground reloading, while meeting every welfare, safety and reporting obligation in writing.
02 — Track record
Verified operational data from Greyman OPS programs — not estimates, not industry averages.
All figures verified against Greyman OPS company records, FeralScan survey reports, peer-reviewed literature and current insurance certificates. See the evidence base.
03 — About Greyman OPS
| Legal entity | Clearwater CFA Pty Ltd t/a Greyman OPS · ACN 619 194 964 · established 2018 |
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| Managing director | Adam Quinn, Managing Director & Head Marksman |
| Head office | Brisbane base · operations covering Qld, NSW, VIC, SA and NT · greyman.com.au |
| Core team | Five senior personnel — Project Leader / Lead Marksman, Ground Crew & Qualified Secondary Marksman, Operational Support, Technician & Trainer, and Chief Remote Pilot — with helicopter operations flown by pilots of contracted CASR Part 138 AOC holders, matched to the region of work. See Our team. |
| Coverage | National capability across Queensland (Brisbane base), New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and the Northern Territory, with helicopter assets staged at Thredbo, Mundubbera, Longreach, Clermont, Toowoomba and Cairns for rapid regional mobilisation. |
| Insurance | A$20 million Public Liability · A$2 million Professional Indemnity held. Aviation liability insurance, aircraft maintenance records and pilot credentials are held by, and supplied for, the contracted CASR Part 138 AOC holder engaged for each program. |
| Contractor systems | Project Safety Plans integrate with Avetta, Cm3, Rapid Global and Pegasus. |
| Evidence pack | Certificates of currency, licences, accreditations and SWMS/JSA documentation supplied as a single pre-mobilisation bundle on request. |
Greyman OPS operates a flexible rotary-wing capability through a panel of contracted CASR Part 138 Aerial Work Certificate holders. The helicopter, AOC partner and staging base are matched to the terrain, program size, endurance requirement and client budget — not the other way round. NATSOP-PIG002 requires aircraft that are “manoeuvrable, fast and responsive, being suitable to the task at hand and operating environment”2; peer-reviewed programs achieving 100% incapacitation efficiency used the AS350 platform with a dedicated thermal operator8.
Greyman OPS is a DJI Enterprise Dealer and operator — a meaningful differentiator from typical aerial-shooting contractors. UAV thermal surveys are flown before a destruction program to map distribution and density, and after to verify outcomes and inform follow-up. The data feeds directly into FeralScan and the client’s own GIS and biosecurity reporting17.
Operating footprint
Programs are mobilised from the staging base, aircraft and AOC partner best matched to the site — reducing ferry time, cost and mobilisation risk.
| Head office | Brisbane, QLD |
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| Southern QLD | Mundubbera, Toowoomba — Quidiron Helicopters, Helicopters Australia |
| Central & western QLD | Longreach, Clermont — Queensland Helicopters |
| Northern QLD | Cairns |
| Alpine & southern NSW | Thredbo — HeliSurveys |
| States covered | QLD, NSW, SA, VIC, TAS · permits obtainable for NT |
04 — Our team
A small, deeply experienced five-person core team — supported by a panel of contracted CASR Part 138 helicopter operators, selected for each program by region, aircraft type and client specification.
Founder and operational lead of Greyman OPS. Specialises in humane destruction of animals from aircraft, aerial-platform precision marksmanship, and feral-animal tracking and trapping at landscape scale.
Licences & permits: Occupational Firearms Licence Cat A/B/C/D, OCC, FA6, 999 Conditions; Commercial RPA Operator (RePL <150 kg); Standard 11; Work Safe Around Aircraft; 4WD Operation.
Highly experienced coal-mine worker and licensed electrician, inducted on multiple mine sites. Provides ground-crew and operational support, with full secondary-marksman qualifications when programs require it.
Licences & permits: Occupational Firearms Cat A/B/C/D; Humane Destruction of Animals (incl. from aircraft); aerial-platform precision marksmanship; Standard 11; Work Safe Around Aircraft; 4WD Operation; licensed Electrician.
Operational support across program delivery, ground logistics, firearms handling, and feral-animal tracking and trapping.
Licences & permits: Occupational Firearms Licence Cat A/B/C/D, OCC, FA6, 999 Conditions; Humane Destruction of Animals; Work Safe Around Aircraft.
More than 30 years’ experience as a firearms instructor and trainer. Owner of PVO Training and the in-house training and currency lead for the Greyman OPS team, overseeing requalification and firearm maintenance.
Credentials: training accreditations provided in the pre-mobilisation evidence pack.
Leads Greyman OPS’s in-house RPAS / UAV capability under our own CASA ReOC — planning and flying pre- and post-program thermal surveys and managing the Dock 3 / GDOC 26 autonomous fleet.
Credentials: CASA remote-pilot licensing and ReOC scope provided in the pre-mobilisation evidence pack.
Helicopter operations are flown by the pilots of contracted CASR Part 138 AOC holders, selected for each program by region, aircraft type, endurance and client specification. No single operator dependency.
Supplied per program: the engaged AOC holder’s certificate and Part 138 instrument, aviation liability insurance, aircraft maintenance records and pilot licences and experience.
Currency, on file. Every team member’s accreditation, last requalification date and benchmark scores are recorded and produced on request as part of the pre-mobilisation evidence pack — firearms licences, AHCPMG311 currency, medical fitness and SWMS/JSA documentation. Aviation documentation is supplied for the AOC holder engaged on each program.
05 — Capability pillar 01 · Logistics & capacity
Why programs with identical headline rates produce very different outcomes: the time the aircraft spends with a firearm ready to fire.
Aerial shooting is dominated by fixed costs. Aircraft hire, fuel and Marksman/observer crews are committed for every hour in the air18, and those costs don’t change whether the crew is engaging targets or reloading. The true measure of value is therefore cost per animal removed, not the hourly rate — and it is where Greyman OPS’s accuracy, efficiency and capability deliver optimal value. The variable is how much of each flight hour is actually spent engaging targets.
NATSOP-PIG002 is explicit about the firearm configuration and the workflow around it — and the requirements are not optional:
“Rifles should be semi-automatic and of appropriate calibre e.g. .308 calibre and adequate magazine capacity.”2
“Shotguns should be 12-gauge and either pump action or semi-automatic… having an adequate magazine capacity — for use on small to medium sized pigs only.”2
“Each animal must be shot at least twice with at least one bullet placed in the heart/lung… before shooting further animals.”2
“A fly-back procedure is required after shooting a group of animals and must be applied at all times. The cost of ammunition and extra flying time must not deter operators from applying fly-back procedures.”2
Read together, these clauses require a Marksman to place at least two well-aimed rounds on each target in a group, then fly back and place additional rounds into any animal showing signs of life. On a mob of 15–25 pigs — a routine encounter on a productive aerial shoot — compliant engagement means 30–70+ rounds fired in sequence, often within 60–90 seconds, while the aircraft remains stable and on station.
If a Marksman is constrained to low-capacity magazines (five or ten rounds) or low round-count shotguns, the SOP-mandated workflow forces repeated reload cycles during active engagement. Each reload means the Marksman breaks aim, the aircraft breaks station or loiters unproductively, the group disperses, wounded or unconfirmed animals move into cover, and the fly-back becomes longer, slower and less reliable. The consequences are measurable and cumulative:
Greyman OPS has invested significantly in a 20-round rifle magazine inventory for the AR10 .308 platform — something that cannot be assembled at short notice or inside a tender response window. It provides more than 2,000 rounds of ready capacity per fuel cycle.
Why this is genuinely uncommon — the regulatory moat. In Australia, high-capacity centrefire rifle magazines (over 10 rounds) are restricted items requiring an Australian Government Attorney-General’s Department permit to import, in addition to state Category D firearms licensing. Permit processing for a single batch routinely takes twelve months or longer, with no guarantee of approval. Building a substantial inventory is therefore a multi-year exercise in regulatory persistence, federal compliance and capital commitment — not a procurement decision a new entrant can make on the back of a contract win.
The practical consequence: very few private operators in Australia hold the magazine inventory Greyman OPS holds. It is a structural, hard-to-replicate competitive advantage.
A typical fuel cycle in an R44 or AS350 is roughly 2 to 2.5 hours of flight time before the aircraft must return to base or fuel cache. In that window:
A contractor that delivers SOP-compliant wildlife management without grounding for ammunition mid-shift is a contractor whose work plan you can schedule around.
Programs also reduce feral pigs on neighbouring properties — goodwill that supports community relations and your social licence to operate.
Per-animal cost is a key metric in your acquittal. Costs vary by property and target species; contact us for a quote.
Finishing mobs on first contact stops the educated-survivor problem — a population trajectory you can actually bend, not a treadmill you fund every season.
Ask every bidder: “How many high-capacity .308 magazines do you hold in current inventory, and how many years did it take to build?” The answer shows whether they can sustain SOP-compliant fly-back at scale.
Bottom line for decision-makers. The cheapest quote per hour is rarely the cheapest program. Programs that under-invest in experienced technicians and pilots, firearms and high-capacity magazines spend the hourly helicopter rate on reloading and repositioning rather than targeting. Greyman OPS’s risk management, program planning and delivery, experienced crew and 2,000+ rounds of ready capacity per fuel cycle — built up over years — are why a Greyman OPS aircraft removes more animals per airframe hour, at a lower per-animal cost.
05 — Capability pillar 01 · Methodology comparison
Before comparing operators, the first procurement question is: which methodology actually moves the population? The evidence base is clear — aerial shooting delivers landscape-scale reduction quickly, with auditable welfare outcomes. Ground shooting, trapping and baiting have specific roles, but as the primary knock-down tool they are slower, less effective and harder to audit.
| Factor | Ground shooting | Trapping | Baiting (1080 / PAPP / sodium nitrite) | Aerial shooting |
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| Coverage rate | Slow — vehicle-bound and terrain-limited; typically a few hundred hectares per day in accessible country. | Very slow — site by site; effectively zero per-day coverage at landscape scale. | Wide passive coverage along bait lines, but no direct targeting; outcomes lagged and inferred. | Thousands of hectares per day — “best suited to areas where pigs are living and feeding in extensive or inaccessible areas”2. |
| Speed of reduction | Slow; effectiveness collapses below moderate density. | Very slow; suited to individual problem animals. | Variable; depends on bait acceptance, season and alternative food. | Rapid. “An effective and relatively cost-effective method of quickly reducing feral pig populations”4. |
| Welfare auditability | Operator-dependent; no flight track or time-stamped engagement record. | Capture-stress and dispatch risks; non-target captures common. | Limited; time-to-death can be extended and carcass recovery is rare. | Strongest of the four. Peer-reviewed benchmark: 100% incapacitation, zero wounding, <12 s median time to incapacitation8. |
| Non-target risk | Moderate — relies on visual ID at distance and at night. | Moderate to high — traps capture native fauna and stock. | High for carnivore baits (wild dogs, dingoes, raptors); managed but not eliminated. | Very low. Visual and thermal ID at engagement range; SOP-mandated species confirmation before firing2. |
| Data deliverable | Verbal debrief; tally; sometimes a photo. | Trap log; capture totals. | Bait-take counts; presumed-kill estimates. | GPS flight tracks, time-stamped kill locations, ammunition reconciliation and fly-back evidence in FeralScan17. |
| Density curve | Falls fast as density falls. | Density-independent, but very high per-animal cost. | Effective at moderate density; weaker when food is abundant. | Best per-animal economics at high density; the most effective wide-area tool2. |
| Dispersal / behaviour | Survivors become education-hardened. | Trap-shy survivors common. | Bait-shy survivors after sub-lethal exposure. | Peer-reviewed: does not materially disperse survivors or change movement — knock-downs are bankable19. |
| Best deployment | Follow-up after aerial knock-down; small accessible blocks. | Individual problem animals near infrastructure. | Wide-area suppression alongside aerial knock-down. | Primary tool for landscape-scale knock-down across mining tenure, broadacre cropping, council blocks, offsets and rangeland. |
| National SOP | NSW PIGCOP / NATSOP ground-shooting procedures9. | NATSOP trapping procedures9. | NATSOP baiting procedures9. | NATSOP-PIG002 — a dedicated, nationally endorsed aerial-specific SOP2. |
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Methodology bottom line. Aerial shooting is the most cost-effective methodology for rapid, landscape-scale reduction of feral pig and deer populations across extensive or inaccessible country — and the foundation of major Australian programs, from the National Feral Pig Action Plan4 and National Feral Deer Action Plan 2023–2820 to the NSW Government’s A$13.1M Feral Pig and Pest Program 2024–2521. Per-animal cost rises as density falls below approximately 2–6 pigs/km²22, which is why aerial is best deployed as the primary tool in an integrated program, complemented by ground shooting, trapping and baiting for follow-up and infill23. At landscape scale, it is the methodology that stands up in front of an internal auditor, a board, a regulator or an FOI request.
05 — Capability pillar 01 · Operator comparison
Once aerial shooting is the chosen methodology, the second question is which operator. The Australian aerial feral-animal market spans a wide range of capability; a clear-eyed comparison is the fastest route to a defensible procurement decision.
| Operational factor | Greyman OPS | Typical sole operator |
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| Team | Five-person senior core team — Lead Marksman, Secondary Marksman, Operational Support, Technician & Trainer (30+ years’ instruction) and Chief Remote Pilot — flown by pilots of the contracted Part 138 AOC holder best matched to the region of work. | One shooter, one pilot — often owner-operated. |
| Primary firearm | AR10 semi-automatic .308 Win (Cat D) — NATSOP-PIG002-specified action and calibre2. | Single 5-round 12-gauge shotgun (Cat A/B). |
| Secondary firearm | Benelli M4 / M2 semi-auto 12-gauge (Cat C) — meeting the SOP’s two-firearm requirement2. | Rarely carried. |
| Rounds between reloads | 20 — switched in seconds from a staged magazine. | 5 (shotgun tube capacity). |
| Ready capacity per fuel cycle | 2,000+ rounds across a substantial inventory of 20-round magazines. | ~5–50 rounds in pocket or pouch; constant reloads. |
| Aircraft | R44, AS350 Squirrel and Bell 206L LongRanger — matched to terrain, endurance and budget. | Usually a single R22 or R44, owner’s aircraft. |
| Regional staging | Six staging locations — Thredbo, Mundubbera, Longreach, Clermont, Toowoomba and Cairns — supporting a five-state footprint. | One home base. |
| SOP-mandated fly-back | Standard on every mob engagement — never ammunition- or magazine-limited. | Often curtailed when ammunition or time is tight2. |
| Two-firearm compliance | Built into the sortie load-out, with fleet redundancy for maintenance substitution. | Frequently absent. |
| Mine-site / WHS | Documented Project Safety Plans integrated with Avetta, Cm3, Rapid Global and Pegasus; WHS (MPS) Regulation 2022 compliant16. | Ad-hoc inductions; limited SMS integration. |
| Data deliverable | GPS flight tracks, time-stamped kill locations, heat maps, ammunition reconciliation and fly-back confirmations via FeralScan / FeralPigScan17 and CSIRO-lineage tools24. | Verbal debrief; paper tally; sometimes a photograph. |
| Insurance | A$20M Public Liability; A$2M Professional Indemnity; aviation liability, maintenance records and pilot credentials supplied for the engaged Part 138 AOC holder. | Variable — sometimes minimal or absent. |
| Welfare accountability | Written post-operation report against SOP criteria: numbers, locations, hours flown, ammunition used, fly-back evidence2. | Self-reported. |
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This is what professional, landscape-scale aerial wildlife management looks like. A properly accredited Marksman team; the capacity to deliver SOP-mandated two-shots-per-animal engagement and compliant fly-back on every mob; and an auditable data trail handed to the client at the close of every program. Team, firearms, magazines, aircraft, tracking and paperwork operate as a single integrated system — because that is what the evidence base and the regulations require, and what landscape-scale outcomes demand.
Aerial shooting is, by the plain text of the national SOP, a “potentially hazardous” activity2. Our systems treat it that way.
Every Greyman OPS flight is conducted under a CASR Part 138 Aerial Work Certificate holder. Under Part 138, an operator conducting aerial work in Australia must hold an aerial work certificate granted by the Civil Aviation Safety Authority15. The SOP reinforces this: “Helicopter operators must have approval from the Civil Aviation Safety Authority to undertake aerial shooting operations.”2
On NSW mine and petroleum sites we operate inside the operator’s safety management system under the Work Health and Safety (Mines and Petroleum Sites) Regulation 2022, which requires contractors to be inducted, given risk information and monitored for compliance with the SMS, emergency procedures and withdrawal protocols16.
Documented, auditable, client-facing. Every Greyman OPS program arrives with a written Project Safety Plan that integrates with the client’s contractor-management system (Avetta, Rapid Global, Pegasus or Cm3 as applicable). Pre-mobilisation evidence packs — firearm licences, AHCPMG311 currency, medical fitness, Greyman OPS insurances, SWMS and JSA, plus the engaged AOC holder’s certificate, aviation insurance, aircraft maintenance records and pilot credentials — are provided as a single document bundle, so procurement and HSE teams can clear us in hours, not weeks.
Humane outcomes are the product of accredited Marksmen, the correct platform, correct calibre and ammunition, correct shot placement and disciplined fly-back.
Greyman OPS Marksmen hold, at minimum, the nationally recognised units of competency AHCPMG311 Use firearms for aircraft pest control14 and AHCPMG304 Use firearms to humanely destroy animals. Each Marksman is individually currency-tracked: every requalification date and benchmark score is recorded and produced on request.
In line with NATSOP-PIG002, every Marksman must consistently place a group of three rounds (from three attempts) within a 7.5 cm target at 100 m from a bench rest using the minimum specified centrefire rifle2 — a benchmark we verify at every refresher and record against each team member.
Only chest (heart-lung) or head (brain) shots are used, per NATSOP-PIG0022. The “deliberate overkill” policy — at least two rounds per animal, including at least one heart-lung round — is followed without exception, with ammunition selected for rapid, humane incapacitation.
The current peer-reviewed benchmark for aerial culling of feral pigs and deer in Australia is Cox et al. (2023), published in Scientific Reports8. Using a thermal-assisted configuration on an AS350 B3 helicopter with a .308 self-loading rifle and 135-grain hollow-point ammunition, the program achieved:
These are the numbers that should be the yardstick for any modern aerial program. They are achievable only when the Marksman, platform, sensor package, firearm and logistics are all aligned — precisely the operating envelope Greyman OPS is built around.
Welfare and safety outcomes in aerial shooting decay quickly without continuous practice. Greyman OPS treats Marksman and support-crew currency as a year-round program, not a one-time accreditation.
Why this matters to the client. The peer-reviewed welfare numbers above8 are not achievable on bench-rest training alone — they require Marksmen who are currently and recently shooting from helicopters. Our pre-mobilisation requalification cycle turns those benchmarks from possibility into program-day reality.
On accountability. NATSOP-PIG002: “Aerial shooting programs by their nature must be highly accountable… records should be kept of the number and location of animals killed, hours flown, ammunition used and fly-back procedures.”2 Every Greyman OPS engagement includes a written post-operation report containing precisely this data set.
08 — Capability pillar 04 · Data, reporting & value for money
We deliver the kind of data that survives internal audit, board scrutiny and FOI.
Greyman OPS captures all field data through FeralScan / FeralPigScan17 — the national pest-mapping platform built on Centre for Invasive Species Solutions and CSIRO-lineage research infrastructure24. Every flight path and every animal taken is GPS-tagged at source and lands in a nationally consistent data set that clients can trust, audit and hand to their own regulators.
Two real Greyman OPS programs at different scales. This is the exact data set provided to the client after every engagement — auditable, time-stamped and nationally consistent through FeralScan / FeralPigScan17.
Over 1,511 feral pigs, plus wild dogs and feral cats, have been removed across three mine leases and neighbouring properties near Blackwater since 2023, through aerial, ground-thermal and baiting programs. Neighbouring landholders have been very positive about the regional reduction in feral pigs — and because aerial shooting does not disperse survivors19, the reduction holds.
ABARES estimates feral pigs cost Australia’s agricultural sector more than A$156 million per year in control costs and production losses, and vertebrate pests collectively cost landholders around A$866 million every year5. Layered on top is an African Swine Fever exposure estimated by the federal agriculture portfolio at between A$439 million and A$2.54 billion over 30 years in the worst-case endemic scenario7.
The economics of aerial shooting are well documented:
Our value-for-money proposition. Put Greyman OPS alongside the cheapest quote in front of you, then compare on animals removed per dollar, SOP-compliant fly-back rate and audit-ready reporting. That is the comparison that matters to a procurement officer, an HSE manager, a biosecurity coordinator and a shareholder alike.
Discovery call, then a scoping visit inside two weeks covering species, tenure, access and risk appetite.
Pre-program RPAS thermal survey maps density and distribution under our own ReOC.
Written program design, Project Safety Plan and pre-mobilisation evidence pack, integrated with your contractor system.
Live-fire, in-aircraft requalification within two weeks; 72-hour mobilisation window.
SOP-compliant aerial program — two-shot minimum, fly-back on every mob, every animal GPS-tagged in FeralScan.
Post-program thermal verification and a written post-operation report in your required format.
09 — Client sectors
Aerial feral-animal programs delivered on live mine leases across our QLD, NSW, VIC, SA and NT operating footprint. Work integrates with the mine safety management system — including obligations under the WHS (Mines and Petroleum Sites) Regulation 202216 — and with contractor-management platforms such as Avetta, Cm3, Rapid Global and Pegasus. Neighbouring landholders share the benefit.
Delivery for regional councils, Local Land Services regions and state agencies — including integrated programs combining landholder engagement, baiting coordination and aerial shooting phases. Outputs align with LLS reporting formats and FeralScan, and deliverables are structured for internal audit, community reporting and FOI defensibility.
Programs for corporate agricultural groups managing livestock grazing, broadacre cropping, cotton, sugar and horticulture. Aerial shooting is “best suited to areas where pigs are living and feeding in extensive or inaccessible areas (e.g., swamps, marshes and rough terrain or broadacre crops) where vehicle access is impossible or impractical”2 — precisely these holdings.
Feral pigs, deer, camels, goats and other declared vertebrate pests
QLD (base), NSW, SA, VIC and TAS; permits obtainable for NT
72-hour mobilisation window available; scoping visit inside two weeks
Engagement & contact
We scope every program on the ground truth of your property, your tenure and your risk appetite.
Typically 30 minutes to understand species, tenure, access and objectives.
Mobilised inside two weeks; baseline RPAS thermal survey where required.
Written program design, Project Safety Plan and pre-mobilisation evidence pack.
Managing Director & Head Marksman
Evidence base & references
Greyman OPS draws its operational design directly from the Australian national and state evidence base. The primary sources underpinning this page — codes of practice, standard operating procedures, peer-reviewed science, government reports, aviation and safety regulation, accreditation standards and data platforms — are listed below, numbered in order of first citation.
This page cites primary Australian regulatory and peer-reviewed sources. All claims are drawn from published documents or confirmed Greyman OPS company information.
FAQ
Feral pigs, deer, goats, wild dogs and foxes, planned with landholders, councils and natural resource management groups.
Thermal drones find and count animals before a program, guide shooters during it and measure results afterwards. See thermal drone wildlife surveys.
Queensland, NSW, Victoria, South Australia and the Northern Territory.
Yes. We hold CASA ReOC (CASA.ReOC.9077), $20m public liability and $2m professional indemnity insurance.
Testimonials
“The Greyman OPS team have always delivered highly professional, de-risked animal control programs to our mine, that have seen aerial culling deliver excellent value for money, with minimal interruption to our operations.”
“We utilised Greyman OPS specialist capabilities and substantial equipment on aerial destruction programs, embedding them into our team seamlessly.”
“Council engaged Greyman OPS to provide thermal drone operations to assist Rangers survey and count feral deer in urban properties. We expected to find 2 or 3, but the Greyman pilot located 12 animals on the site with their DJI Thermal drone within a few minutes, which enabled rangers to safely and humanely remove the deer with reduced effort.”
Greyman OPS · CASA ReOC 9077 · $20m insured
Feral pigs, deer and goats: site assessment, approvals, operation and a GPS report.
