Niche’s heritage team leader Renée Regal,a specialist in Aboriginal archaeology, community consultation and NSW heritage regulation, gives her advice on completing an Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Assessmen.. Community consultation will take 5 to 6 months to complete at a minimum, so make sure you start the process early to give community members sufficient time to comment…
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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…
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Niche Environment and Heritage recently welcomed archaeologist Xavier Carah to the heritage consulting team in Queensland. Xavier has five years of professional experience, gained as a consultant in the private sector and for the University of Queensland’s Cultural Heritage Unit. He has experience with both Indigenous and non-Indigenous heritage for major infrastructure and development projects.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Niche Environment and Heritage is a multidisciplinary consultancy specialising in ecology and biodiversity, and heritage management, environmental approvals and environmental offsetting. Established in 2009, we have successfully delivered projects to clients across eastern Australia. Our 40-strong team includes ecologists, botanists, archaeologists and environmental engineers with a wealth of specialist knowledge derived from their research studies,…
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Niche Environment and Heritage is pleased to welcome ecologist Jodie Danvers to the NSW consulting team. Jodie has worked on the North Coast for several years as an ecologist for consulting businesses and also for the Department of Primary Industry in Ballina and Grafton. Jodie’s past project experience includes ecological monitoring for road construction works,…
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Significant changes to the Queensland planning system have occurred requiring the preparation of planning schemes that comply with the Planning Act 2016. The Planning Act 2016 was assented in May 2016 and from mid-2017 will replace the Sustainable Planning Act 2009. While the basic planning system will remain the same, there will be some key…
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At Niche, we are committed to excellence in coastal environmental management – and to our clients in the North Coast region of NSW – and so we will once again support and exhibit at the annual NSW Coastal Conference. As part of our suite of ecology services, Niche provide expertise in freshwater, coastal and marine…
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Since late June 2016, Niche Environment and Heritage’s Far North Queensland team has been engaged to provide cultural heritage capacity to the local Transport and Main Roads (TMR) office. This has included large and small-scale land and marine projects. Significant projects to date include Stage 2 of the Cairns Southern Access (CSA) Project and the…
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