Seventeen years
in the field.

Founded by ecologists who wanted to do the work, not just write the report.

ID Ecological Management was founded in 2008 out of a frustration shared by many in the industry — consultancies that produced beautiful management plans then handed them off to someone else to execute, with the quality of delivery left to chance.

We set out to close that gap. From day one we've operated two connected practices under one roof: an ecological consulting arm that scopes, surveys and plans, and an on-ground land management arm that actually gets the work done. Same team, same standards, one continuous line from survey to site.

Seventeen years on, that model is still what makes us useful to our clients. Councils, utilities, government agencies and private landholders come to us because the team writing the plan is the team delivering it — and the team delivering it knows why every decision in the plan was made.

We work across Victoria, from inner-urban waterways to remote alpine catchments. Every project gets the same thing: rigorous science, honest reporting, and people who know what a mattock does.