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Our Work

We have the people, skills and experience to help resolve all your resource management, conservation, kaupapa taiao, planning and environmental challenges.

This could involve anything from a simple kōrero, working with your team to enhance their capability, assistance with preparing resource consents and navigating the hearing process, preparation of expert evidence and technical assessments, project management and facilitation, huahuatau (communicating mātauranga), through to strategic evaluation of national-level issues.  

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By the numbers

Nobody likes a skite, but our project track record does the talking! Between us, our experienced team has completed:


Numerous

biodiversity technical reviews, strategy documents, cultural impact assessments, iwi/hapū plans, expert evidence and policy implementation advice 


100+

Resource Consent applications


50+

Environment Court appearances


45+


32+

Presentations at national and international conferences


10+

Decision-support tools, models, and guidance documents


7

Conservation Resource Management Plans


6

Reviews of Council resource management functions


1

Water Conservation Order application

Our Projects

Here are some recent examples that showcase our skills and specialties 



Port of Tauranga Expansion


Supporting mana whenua through the challenging process of opposing the resource consents sought for the Port’s future expansion plans...




Ko Wai Mātou | We are water


Facilitating this exemplar hapū-led kaitiaki capacity building project in the kaupapa taiao realm…




Levin Landfill Closure


Supporting the Levin community to successfully champion the closure of their 50-year-old landfill through the Environment Court...




Te Pūwaha - Port of Whanganui Revitalisation


Providing resource management services to the coalition of partners revitalising the Port...




He Ara Tuku Rau
abundance framework


Developing an abundance assessment framework and model to support decision making on te awa o Whanganui...




Ngaruroro & Clive Rivers Water Conservation Order


Working on creating the sixteenth waterway to be protected by a WCO...




Pākiri Sand Mining Resource Consent

Supporting Ngāti Manuhiri to successfully challenge the long-standing practice of sand mining in their rohe...





Gene Flow to the Rescue!


Developing an analytical framework for estimating the impacts of genetic augmentation on wildlife population dynamics…




Nature-based Solutions Advice


Promoting the value of NbS as a climate adaption response. We can help you with this!




Karamū Tākina Puna


Working alongside the Kāramu Tākina trustees to support them through a joint resource consent process with the Rotorua District Council...




Cultural Impact Assessments


Preparing cultural impact assessments in response to heavy industry discharges in the proximity of Whareroa Marae and the rohe of Ngāti Kuku...




Coordinating HBRC Indigenous Biodiversity Activities


Streamlining and strategising how best to improve processes and practice around the numerous biodiversity roles of the HBRC...


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