Environmental risk becomes business risk when it threatens compliance, approvals, operations or reputation.

ERS helps organisations identify, control and respond to environmental risk before it becomes a regulator issue, project delay, operational disruption or reputational failure.


We work where environmental complexity meets real-world consequence, across regulatory approvals, compliance, environmental crime and investigations, biodiversity, incident response and complex field operations.


Our team combines environmental regulatory and investigative experience with intelligence, specialist training, operational planning and field capability.


We support government, industry and conservation organisations from early risk identification and regulatory strategy through to investigation, incident response and on-ground delivery.

Our Environmental Risk & Resilience approach is practical and risk-based: understand the exposure, establish the controls, test whether they work, and build the capability to respond when they do not.

Our Environmental solutions include:

Environmental Crime, Investigations & Enforcement Support

ERS supports governments, regulators, corporations and conservation organisations dealing with serious environmental misconduct, illegal natural-resource activity and complex environmental investigations.

Our capability include:

  • Environmental crime intelligence and investigative support
  • Evidence development and case review
  • Wildlife trafficking, CITES and natural-resource crime
  • Environmental incident investigation and reconstruction
  • Regulatory and enforcement response support
  • Investigation planning and evidence management
  • Multi-agency and complex operational support

Ranger, Wildlife Officer & Environmental Enforcement Capability

ERS builds practical environmental enforcement capability for ranger services, protected-area agencies, regulators and conservation organisations operating in complex and remote environments.

Our capability includes:

  • Ranger and protected-area enforcement training
  • Patrol planning and intelligence-led operations
  • Environmental crime investigation fundamentals
  • Evidence identification, handling and continuity
  • Wildlife, timber and natural-resource crime awareness
  • Field safety and remote operational planning
  • Incident response and inter-agency coordination
  • Supervisor development and train-the-trainer programs

Environmental Risk & Compliance

ERS helps organisations hold their approvals, licences and conditions — and demonstrate it — through targeted auditing, transparent reporting and adaptive risk management, so compliance failure never becomes an enforcement, reputational or operational problem.

  • Compliance and environmental condition auditing
  • Ministerial condition and offset performance monitoring
  • Site inspections and real-time reporting
  • UAV and GIS-enabled compliance tracking
  • Corrective action planning and enforcement response

Environmental Approvals & Regulatory Strategy

We streamline approvals by aligning documentation, design and delivery with the legislative and regulatory pathway, reducing delay and de-risking complex projects.

  • Approvals audits and regulatory risk reviews
  • Regulatory pathway mapping and EPBC Act significance screening
  • Regulator and stakeholder engagement (EPA, DCCEEW, DBCA)
  • Major-project environmental strategy and approvals coordination

Environmental Incident & Crises Response

ERS specialists respond immediately to environmental incidents — containing the event, establishing the facts, meeting regulatory obligations and returning the client to operation.

  • Spill, fire, contamination and post-disaster response and remediation
  • Incident command and inter-agency coordination support
  • Incident investigation and regulatory reporting
  • Business continuity and operational risk mitigation

Biodiversity, Restoration & Nature Repair

Our field teams deliver practical, large-scale restoration that repairs ecosystems and meets contemporary rehabilitation and offset policy obligations.

  • Nature Repair Market biodiversity projects and offsets delivery
  • Habitat restoration, revegetation and erosion control
  • Feral animal and invasive weed management
  • Biosecurity and landscape stabilisation programs

Indigenous-Led Environmental Initiatives

We partner with Traditional Owners and Yampurru to deliver integrated ecological, cultural and economic outcomes, strengthening Indigenous capability and stewardship across Country.

  • Indigenous ranger training & workforce development
  • Fire planning, land management, and conservation delivery
  • Long-term land and water stewardship programs

Environmental Investigations & Forensic Support

ERS provides independent, technically rigorous environmental investigations and forensic support to corporate, government and institutional clients.

Our capabilities:

  • Evidence-grade field response, environmental forensics, and investigative reporting
  • Support for regulatory processes, legal review, and remedial action
  • Partnership with authorised agencies and legal counsel

Specialist Training

ERS delivers specialist training for government, enforcement and protected-area clients, built and instructed by personnel with law enforcement and operational backgrounds. Foundation programs cover enforcement fundamentals, patrol planning, evidence handling and field safety. Further capability is scoped confidentially with each client, scaled to their legal authority and operating mandate, and delivered in-country where required.

Investigation & Case Management Systems

Incident, Investigations and Brief Management Systems

Our investigation and case management platform, configured for environmental and natural-resource investigations — gives agencies a single, auditable system for managing cases from first report to brief of evidence, with structured evidence handling, elements-based case building and defensible chain of custody throughout.

Contact Chris Phillips

Chris Phillips leads ERS’s Environmental Risk & Resilience practice, working across environmental risk, regulatory strategy, investigations, enforcement and complex operations in Australia and internationally. 

At ERS, Chris works with government, industry, regulators and conservation organisations across environmental compliance, investigations, regulatory risk, environmental incident response, ranger and enforcement capability development, biodiversity and Nature Repair.

Case studies

Our environmental solutions protect reputations and safeguard assets for clients across mining & resources, oil & gas, government and critical infrastructure.


Compliance modelling for mining

Developing an integrated compliance assurance model to support mining track and meet their obligations.

Environmental management for a major Pilbara iron ore operation

Delivering environmental risk, fire hazard and pest management support across a large Pilbara mining operation.

Streamlining biodiversity offsets

Streamlining the delivery of biodiversity offset program in the Pilbara region.

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