Creating a
sustainable future

Niche is the largest privately-owned specialist biodiversity and heritage consultancy in Australia.

We are founded on our shared purpose: to empower people to create a sustainable future.

We deliver highly specialised technical expertise and strategic advice. Collaborating with our clients, we help them navigate their environmental, social or sustainability challenges and deliver commercially effective project outcomes.

We believe our future depends on finding a way to balance the demand for projects that contribute to the energy transition, or nation-building infrastructure, against our reliance upon nature and respect for our heritage.

Sometimes this requires a niche solution combining the skills and experience of our diverse community of technical experts and strategic advisors.

Our Expertise Our Culture

Our impacts

We have delivered tangible positive impacts for people and nature since our founding in 2009. Here are some of the numbers we are incredibly proud to have achieved through our work so far. Find out more here.

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hectares of land protected

Land protected in perpetuity to conserve our native ecosystems and biodiversity
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hectares of land restored or improved

Land under active management, restored and thriving for a nature positive future.
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Aboriginal communities engaged

Aboriginal Parties and Traditional Owner groups consulted with to respectfully manage their cultural heritage
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experts creating a sustainable future

Staff across our disciplines, with dedication, passion and a commitment to doing things differently.

Acknowledgement of Country

Niche acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of Country throughout Australia, and their connections to land, sea and community. In particular, we acknowledge the Custodians of the lands and waters on which we work. We pay our respect to Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today. We support reconciliation with humility and honesty for the continuation of cultural, spiritual and educational practices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

Expertise

Clients seeking Niche’s advice and assistance with natural capital and offsetting may be project proponents or landholders. Many require advice on biodiversity offsetting strategy, credit acquisition or supply. Some are seeking to engage in natural capital markets or establish organisational environmental, social and governance (ESG) strategies.

Our nature and biodiversity offset strategies ensure we are identifying and creating nature-positive projects on ground that contribute to biodiversity conservation.

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Clients for our ecology services come from the energy generation and transition, utility and transport infrastructure, land management and resources sectors.

We support clients across the lifecycle of a project from conceptual strategic advice to execution. Our advice covers all compliance and legislatively driven processes – feasibility, approvals, development, operations, closure and rehabilitation.

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Niche advises clients on heritage issues affecting sites at all stages of a project lifecycle. Our team includes specialists in Aboriginal cultural heritage, historic heritage, and heritage architecture.

We maintain strong relationships with stakeholders, negotiating complex and sensitive heritage issues to reach solutions that satisfy cultural heritage and legislative compliance requirements, while seeking outcomes that respect our heritage and benefit communities.

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Niche’s spatial services systems – including web maps, field apps, dashboards and reports – provide our clients with increased insight throughout the project lifecycle.

Clients who need to collect, store, distribute and understand spatial data can have reliable and connected systems, tools and reports for each stakeholder, delivering the information they need, wherever they are, at all stages of the project.

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