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Environmental Assessment & Management

Vatukoula Gold Mines Toko West

ECF is Fiji’s most experienced provider of Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA) with over 75 approved assessments of development projects.

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Water quality testing

Conservation in FIji

ECF can undertake detailed baseline water quality assessments and field analyses to respond to management requirements. Microbiological and physio-chemical samples collected by ECF are analysed by the Institute of Applied Sciences, University of the South Pacific – Fiji`s only certified laboratory.

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Cultural, Historic and Archaeological Assessment

Sovi Basin, Fiji

ECF’s Kolinio Moce is a former senior technical officer at the Fiji Museum. Consequently, ECF is able to provide preliminary cultural/archaeological site survey services which includes a site inspection and consultation of national databases held by the Fiji Museum and Native Lands Commission. If a site is discovered or suspected. ECF then works closely with the Fiji Museum to complete the assessment for the development.
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Coastal Processes Studies

Coastal Processes Assessment & EIA

Foreshore erosion and coastal damage from cyclones are prevalent throughout the developed coastlines of the Fiji group and there are few, if any, coastal resorts which do not have foreshore engineering or erosion problems.

Resorts and foreshore developments routinely require construction at the land-foreshore interface and there is a litany of inappropriate engineering and expensive error to be seen on Fiji’s coastlines as a result of poor advice.

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Terrestrial, Freshwater, Mangrove and Marine Survey

Marine monitoring quadrat, FIji

ECF is the leading provider of specialist terrestrial fauna, flora and mangrove surveys in Fiji. Dick Watling, ECF`s Principal, is an internationally acknowledged authority on Fiji`s birds, mangrove and terrestrial wildlife. He has just completed a commission to rewrite his 1985-86 ‘Mangrove Management Plan for Fiji’.

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Economic Impact Assessments

Studio City Regional Environmental Assessment

All EIA’s include some degree of assessment of the likely economic impacts of the development. 

However, it is likely that formal Economic Impact Assessment will increasingly become a formal requirement for EIAs in Fiji.

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Social Impact Assessment and Community Consultation

Lake Tagimaucia, Fiji

ECF has undertaken social impact assessment services for over 25 studies as specified by the Department of Environment, as well as SIAs that comply with the standards of multi-lateral agencies such as the Asian Development Bank.

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Environmental Management Plans

Waste Management Effluent Disposal Trials, FIji

Fiji’s environmental and mining legislation requires the preparation of management plans to incorporate conditions of development approval.

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Recent News

Honorary Member – Nomination Acceptance Communique – Dick Watling – September 2021

IUCN World Conservation Congress, Marseille 3-11 September 2021

Well, I have to start by saying this nomination is a surprise, but certainly a pleasant surprise, and I accept it with gratitude, and with humility. I add with humility, because I know well that my professional life here in Fiji, has been dedicated to my wider environmental consultancy rather than to conservation, which is where I always thought it would be.

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