Once again, Niche Environment and Heritage will be showing support for our clients in the mining industry at the annual Health, Safety, Environment and Community conference. The event is organised by NSW Mining and brings together the key policy experts and decision makers to talk about the operational and regulatory challenges and issues in key […]

The project Niche Environment and Heritage, in association with Bowditch Group and Hills Environmental, is currently engaged by Roads and Maritime Services in an 8 year contract for environmental services for the upgrade of the Pacific Highway between the Oxley Highway at Port Macquarie and Eungai.  The Pacific Highway upgrade is one of the largest […]

Niche has welcomed seven new consultants to our team during the first half of 2017. Each of our new team members brings with them a unique set of skills and experience in their specialist field, adding strength to our team’s capacity to support our clients and their projects. Ecologists Dr Radika Michniewicz and Jodie Danvers […]

Niche’s heritage team leader Renée Regal is a specialist in Aboriginal archaeology, community consultation and NSW heritage regulation. Drawing on her many years of experience, Renée offers the following advice for completing a compliant Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Assessment with community consultation. Community consultation will take 5 to 6 months to complete at a minimum, so […]

The latest addition to Niche’s expanding multidisciplinary consulting team in NSW is botanist Dr Cairo Forrest, who joins the Sydney head office. Cairo is an experienced ecological consultant and research scientist with particular expertise in terrestrial vegetation, threatened species survey and long term biodiversity monitoring programs. Cairo’s PhD focused on five threatened Acacia species of […]

Niche’s aquatic ecology team has the specialist skills required to ensure your project meets its environmental obligations and consent requirements. We partner with engineering firms, planners, developers, mine operators, utility providers and government on projects encompassing freshwater, marine, estuarine, coastal, temperate and tropical reef and deep-water ecosystems. Our goal is to develop innovative solutions to […]

Significant changes to the way projects are assessed and offset In 2016, the NSW Government introduced the Biodiversity Conservation Act (BC Act) and Local Land Services Amendment Act (LLSA Act). This new legislation repeals the Threatened Species Conservation Act 1995, the Nature Conservation Trust Act 2001 and parts of the National Parks and Wildlife Act […]

Clare brings with her several years of experience as a professional archaeologist, gained in Australia and the UK. Clare has recently returned from overseas, where  she undertook geophysical survey, excavations, artefact management and recording throughout Great Britain. At home in Australia, Clare’s project experience includes both historical and Aboriginal archaeological survey, assessment and excavation with […]

Dr Radika Michniewicz is a senior ecologist with 12 years of experience in providing ecological services in Australia and France. She has a varied background, from population studies of shingleback lizards in South Australia, stygofauna sampling in the Pilbara, to ecological studies in the French Pyrenees. Radika has managed field studies and large, complex projects […]

Niche Environment and Heritage is pleased to announce that Isabel Tickle has joined the heritage consulting team. Isabel is a recently graduated archaeologist with experience in Aboriginal and historical archaeology projects.  She has worked in Victoria and south-western New South Wales on research, as well as private and government projects. Isabel specialises in stone artefact […]