AMBER JACKSON

DIRECTOR

Amber has over twelve years’ experience in terrestrial vertebrate faunal assessments. She has conducted large scale faunal impact assessments that are to international lender’s standards in Mozambique, Tanzania, Lesotho and Malawi. In South Africa her faunal impact assessments comply with the protocols for the specialist assessment and minimum report content requirements for environmental impacts on terrestrial biodiversity and follows the SANBI Species Environmental Assessment Guideline. Her specialist input goes beyond impact assessments and includes faunal opportunities and constraints assessments, Critical Habitat Assessments, Biodiversity related Management Plans and Biodiversity Monitoring Programs.

Amber completed the IFC lead and Swiss funded program in Environmental and Social Risk Management course in 2018. The purpose of the course was to upskill Sub-Saharan African environmental consultants to increase the uptake of E&S standards by Financial Institutions.

Amber holds a BSc (Zoology and Ecology, Environment & Conservation) and BSc (Hons) in Ecology, Environment & Conservation from WITS University and an MPhil in Environmental Management from University of Cape Town. Amber’s honours focused on the landscape effects on Herpetofauna in Kruger National Park and her Master’s thesis focused on the management of social and natural aspects of environmental systems with a dissertation in food security that investigated the complex food system of informal and formal distribution markets.

TARRYN MARTIN

DIRECTOR

Tarryn has over thirteen years of experience working as a botanist in the environmental sector. She has worked as a botanical specialist and project manager on projects within South Africa, Mozambique, Lesotho, Zambia, Tanzania, Cameroon and Malawi.
 
She has extensive experience writing botanical impact assessments, critical habitat assessments, biodiversity management plans, biodiversity monitoring plans and rehabilitation and restoration plans to South African and International Standards such as those of the International Finance Corporation (IFC). Her experience includes working on large renewable energy projects in South Africa as well as large mining projects in Mozambique, including multiple graphite mines and a heavy mineral mine, all of which were to international lenders standards.
 
Tarryn holds a BSc (Botany and Zoology), a BSc (Hons) in African Vertebrate Biodiversity and an MSc with distinction in Botany from Rhodes University. Tarryn’s Master’s thesis examined the impact of fire on the recovery of C3 and C4 Panicoid and non-Panicoid grasses within the context of climate change for which she won the Junior Captain Scott-Medal (Plant Science) for producing the top MSc of 2010 from the South African Academy of Science and Art as well as an Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement in Range and Forage Science from the Grassland Society of Southern Africa. Tarryn is a professional member of the South African Council for Natural Scientific Professionals (since 2014).