Welcome to Habitat Consulting

Building healthy, connected landscapes and waterways for thriving communities.
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Services

Working with stakeholders to protect, restore and promote ecosystem system health for nature and people

Strategic Planning

Assistance to identify your vision, mission and objectives; design program logic; analyse assets and challenges; assess risks and threats; scope and select management actions; implementation plans and MER.

Engaging people

Engagement programs for all phases of natural asset management. Stakeholder analysis and facilitation to harness knowledge, identify options and evaluate the acceptability of proposals. Environmental education and social change campaigns to build awareness, understanding and stewardship.

Ecological Restoration

Easy-to-follow plans to restore ecosystem health, landscape function and amenity in a wide range of settings. Service includes stakeholder consultation, S.M.A.R.T objectives, threat analysis, desktop and field investigations. Project design with management zones, activities, materials, quantities, costs, labour, timing and hand-over to contractors.

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Environmental Writing

Compelling writing is not one-size-fits-all. Habitat consulting writes clear, meaningful, rich content to grab the attention of your target audience, build understanding and bring them on board. We can start from scratch, edit a collaborative document with your team or breathe life into dull reports.

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How can I help?

Hi! I’m Louise Duff – freelance consultant and founder of Habitat Consulting.

So you’ve set a goal, won a grant or made a commitment. Time’s getting away and your team’s overloaded. You need someone who can slot in and get things moving. Let me help you get your project on track.

I’m a natural resource manager with three decades of experience – where did the time go?! One thing has remained constant – caring deeply for nature.

I take a multi-disciplinary approach and work collaboratively with local government, global NGOs, grass-roots communities and land managers to build partnerships, promote stewardship and achieve on-ground outcomes.

A leader with buckets of drive who thrives in new environments, I’m a life-long learner who loves working with passionate people. These traits have given me a breadth of experience for an integrated approach across the environmental and social dimensions of NRM.

When it comes to project design, context is crucial. My experience covers biodiversity and threatened species, estuaries and wetlands, river catchments, farms, bushland reserves, urban parkland and ecotourism attractions.

If you have management targets in these settings, I can help you engage stakeholders, repair ecosystem services and build resilience at local and landscape scales.

One more thing: I love working with skilled colleagues and will bring in associates to build a team if a project calls for more hands on deck.

You can read about my professional experience, credentials and project portfolio on LinkedIn.

Client Testimonials

“A skilled, highly competent and hugely effective lead of program development and implementation, Louise has consistently delivered effective leadership of complex, multi-partner and long-term initiatives. Not only that, she is a heck of a decent person.” Phil Harrison, CEO - Conservation Volunteers
Phil Harrison, Conservation Volunteers
"Louise goes above and beyond to add value to the projects and groups she is part of. She is a skilled strategic thinker, and has strong collaboration and communication skills."
Rachael Abberton, MidCoast Council
“Louise empowered individuals and groups…to make the Ramsar Convention a more inclusive platform for decision making. She has a great ability to work with NGOs and government representatives to enable constructive discussions. Louise’s kind and approachable personality has really made it a pleasure to work with her."
Elise Alleley-Ferme, Youth Engaged in Wetlands

Think Globally, Act Locally

Habitat Consulting thinks globally and acts locally. My project portfolio has contributed to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 6 (ensure availability and sustainable management of water for all) and SDG 15 (protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems…reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss). I have more than a decade of experience working closely with the Ramsar Convention with a focus on CEPA (communication, capacity building, education, participation and awareness), and participated at Ramsar COP 11, 12 and 13.