AMBER JACKSON

DIRECTOR

Amber has over ten years’ experience in environmental consulting and has managed projects across various sectors including mining, agriculture, forestry, renewable energy, housing, coastal and wetland recreational infrastructure. Most of these projects required lender finance and therefore met both in-country, lender and sector specific  requirements.

​Amber completed the IFC lead and Swiss funded programme 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 specialises 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 Programmes.
 
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. She was awarded the Denzil and Dorethy Carr Prize for her plant collection in 2006. 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 ten years of experience working as a botanist, nine of which are in the environmental sector. She has worked as a specialist and project manager on projects within South Africa, Mozambique, Lesotho, Zambia, Tanzania, Cameroon, Swaziland and Malawi. The majority of these projects required lender finance and consequently met both in-country and lender requirements.
 
Tarryn has extensive experience writing botanical impact assessments, critical habitat assessments, biodiversity management plans, biodiversity monitoring plans and Environmental Impact Assessments to International Standards, especially to those of the International Finance Corporation (IFC). Her experience includes working on large mining projects such as the Kenmare Heavy Minerals Mine, where she monitored forest health, undertook botanical impact assessments for their expansion projects and designed biodiversity management and monitoring plans. She has also project managed Environmental Impact Assessments for graphite mines in northern Mozambique and has a good understanding of the Mozambique Environmental legislation and processes. 
 
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).