C&R Consulting has extensive knowledge and experience in providing aquatic ecological services to local and national government based clients and agencies.

For example, a common service offered by C&R includes the production of Environmental Impact Assessments for areas likely to be affected by civil construction or other developments, whilst providing recommendations to minimise environmental impact and promote sustainable development.

Our team of specialists can conduct:

As Australia develops its economy, it is vitally important to address the resulting pressures on native habitats and indigenous species in order to preserve natural values and tourist revenue. We are all aware of the difficulties that can arise when attempting to balance development with environmental conservation, and how little is often achieved when attempting to alleviate them.

C&R have an in-depth knowledge of environmental process and environmental legislation occurring in the wet and dry tropics regions, and have provided environmental planning services on a range of different projects in those regions. These have been either directly for local authorities, or responding to information requests on behalf of developers.

As such, C&R Consulting have experience in liaising with and working for government bodies, on topics as wide-ranging as:

Addressing the challenge of protecting and promoting native vegetation is a considerable endeavour, but beneficial as it provides habitat for native wildlife, whilst preventing erosion, reducing saline seeps and preventing the ingress and spread of invasive alien weed species to new areas.

C&R Consulting are equipped with the knowledge to tackle unique and complex problems relating to vegetation management.

For example, C&R recently prepared a marine plant management plan for Townsville City Council, produced for the Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries State-wide initiative to develop marine plant management strategies in partnership with local government for all major coastal centres.

C&R have also worked extensively within the ‘Brigalow Belt’ and advised clients on suitable conservation measures as required by local and federal legislation, as well as industry codes of best practice.

C&R Consulting employs specialists who are available to provide:

One of the benefits of Holistic management practice is that it can encompass and account for all potential factors that may cause the project to fail.

For example, one problem facing the dry tropics regions is the annual cycle of flooding followed by water shortage, which poses a problem for local governments in those areas. This is partly due to the fact that processes operating in the dry tropics are vastly different than in temperate areas, where many models and risk assessment frameworks have been developed.

A thorough understanding of the relationship between El Niño and La Niña cycles, the seasonal monsoon, rainfall, runoff, groundwater recharge, vegetation and soil characteristics in the seasonally arid tropics of Australia allow C&R Consulting to modify established frameworks and models to better suit the on-ground conditions prevalent throughout the seasonally arid tropics.

This allows for the proper design of flood mitigation infrastructure to reflect on-ground conditions rather than standards developed for areas with a different climate regime.

C&R Consulting employ a range of people who specialise in very specific areas of biology, chemistry, hydrology, petrography and geology and are able to produce broad comprehensive assessments, or focus on very specific aspects of a project where required.

The staff at C&R possess a unique knowledge of the climatological and environmental conditions found in the dry and wet tropics. This knowledge can be applied to:

As populations, industry and agriculture develop and grow, water will become an increasingly scarce resource.

With C&R Consulting's unique understanding regarding the relationships of water with other environmental variables, we are able to provide services to improve the efficiency of water use and avoid overexploitation of unsustainable water sources.

C&R can use water resource mapping to facilitate groundwater remediation works, as well as assessing the hydraulic conductivity of aquifers and inter-aquifer connectivity to determine the potential spread of contaminants throughout the groundwater system.