Ecology & Heritage Expertise
At Niche, we do work that matters and has a lasting and profound impact on our clients, communities and our environment. We want to leave a positive legacy on the world and create a sustainable future.
At Niche and Ausecology, we are delivering tangible positive impacts for people and nature every day. Here are some of the numbers we are incredibly proud to have achieved through our work so far. Find out more here.
Land protected in perpetuity to conserve our native ecosystems and biodiversity.
Land under active management, restored and thriving for a nature positive future.
Aboriginal Parties and Traditional Owner groups consulted with to respectfully manage their cultural heritage.
Number of trees planted to restore and improve ecosystems.
Energy and utilities projects delivered in support of Australia’s clean energy transition.
Supported by an additional 70 casual and regular subcontractors – a total of 250 experts.
Niche provides natural capital services for companies and landowners seeking to address their impacts on nature, biodiversity and climate. A range of expertise—from nature strategy, to biodiversity project development, to emerging nature markets, to land restoration—all built on our deep environmental science knowledge.
At the intersection of on-ground environmental expertise and business leadership is where Niche works. We know how to achieve outcomes that are good for business and good for nature.
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.
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.
Efficient, high-quality land restoration and management is critical for conservation projects, biodiversity offset sites and carbon projects to meet project outcomes and achieve long-term nature positive impacts.
Our expertise includes planning and delivery of on-ground restoration activities for conservation, biodiversity offset and carbon projects to rebuild nature. The Niche teams work in partnership with the experienced land management teams at Ausecology to deliver land restoration services across the east coast of Australia.
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.