What Phoenix Environmental Sciences does

Phoenix Environmental Sciences is a privately held Australian environmental consulting firm headquartered in Perth, Western Australia, founded circa 2010 and operated by three co-founder directors. The company delivers specialist biological and environmental management services across seven core service areas: Flora & Vegetation, Rehabilitation, Vertebrate Fauna, Short-Range Endemic (SRE) and Terrestrial Invertebrates, Subterranean Fauna, Wetlands, and Environmental Management. Its technical differentiation rests on a multi-disciplinary team of career zoologists, Ph.D.-qualified botanists, and spatial analysts with 15+ years of in-house experience, combined with proprietary capability in morphological plus genomic barcoding identification of subterranean fauna and a 13+ year corporate terrestrial invertebrate database built across Western Australian field surveys.

The firm serves enterprise clients across Western Australia's mining and exploration, infrastructure development, oil and gas, and land development sectors. Named client work includes major resource companies (BHP, Fortescue Metals Group, Gold Fields, BC Iron, AngloGold Ashanti, Roy Hill, Evolution Mining, Kalium Lakes Potash), government agencies (Main Roads WA, Water Corporation), and large engineering firms (Jacobs). Project delivery spans environmental impact assessments, baseline biological surveys, environmental management plans, monitoring programs, and rehabilitation assessments for projects ranging from small urban land developments to large-scale mine and infrastructure builds across the Pilbara, Goldfields, Midwest, Southwest, Kimberley, Wheatbelt, and Swan Coastal Plain bioregions.

Phoenix generates revenue through professional services consulting engagements delivered under direct enterprise contracts and specialist environmental service provider panels (e.g., LandCorp). Services are distributed through two physical offices (Osborne Park headquarters and Witchcliffe South West office), with field teams mobilized across Western Australia. Pricing is not publicly disclosed. The go-to-market is relationship-driven and enterprise-focused, relying on direct client engagement, panel pre-qualification, project portfolio visibility via the company website, and industry reputation including a Golden Gecko innovation award. The company has not raised external capital and operates organically without disclosed private equity, parent company, or subsidiary relationships.

Name

Phoenix Environmental Sciences

Legal name

Phoenix Environmental Sciences

Website

https://phoenixenvironmentalsciences.com.au

Company type

Private

Founded year

2010

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Phoenix Environmental Sciences is a Perth-based environmental consulting firm delivering specialist biological surveys and environmental management services to Western Australian mining, infrastructure, government, and land development clients across botany, fauna, SRE invertebrate, subterranean fauna, and wetlands disciplines.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Environmental Consulting Services

NAICS

Environmental Consulting Services (54162)

SIC

Services-Commercial Physical & Biological Research (8731)

akta.pro primary industry

Environmental Compliance & Permitting (BPAHAJAA)

Keywords

• Environmental consulting services
• Biological survey services
• Vegetation and flora surveys
• Subterranean fauna assessments
• Environmental impact assessment

Headquarters

HQ city

Perth

HQ country

Australia

HQ region

Oceania

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Environmental Consulting Services: Professional consulting services providing biological and environmental management services to mining, exploration, oil and gas, land development, and infrastructure sectors. Services span baseline biological surveys for environmental impact assessment, environmental management plans, monitoring programs, and rehabilitation assessments.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Phoenix Environmental Sciences is a Western Australia-based environmental consulting firm that delivers biological and environmental management services across seven core practice areas: Flora & Vegetation, Rehabilitation, Vertebrate Fauna, SREs & Terrestrial Invertebrates, Subterranean Fauna, Wetlands, and Environmental Management. Services include baseline biological surveys, environmental impact assessments, environmental management plans, monitoring programs, and rehabilitation assessments for mining, exploration, oil and gas, land development, and infrastructure clients.

Product overview

Phoenix Environmental Sciences is an environmental consulting firm offering biological and environmental management services organized around seven core service areas: Flora & Vegetation Services (botanical surveys, vegetation mapping, threatened flora surveys), Rehabilitation Services (site-specific vegetation rehabilitation planning and monitoring), Vertebrate Fauna Services (fauna surveys, targeted species surveys, pre-clearance surveys), SREs & Terrestrial Invertebrates Services (short-range endemic assessments, invertebrate surveys), Subterranean Fauna Services (subterranean survey solutions, stygofauna and troglofauna surveys), Wetlands Services (aquatic ecosystem management, wetland assessment), and Environmental Management Services (environmental management plans, weed mapping, compliance monitoring). These services support clients in mining, exploration, oil and gas, land development, and infrastructure sectors throughout Western Australia.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Flora & Vegetation Services

Quantifiable outcome

• Helped Kalium Lakes achieve environmental approvals for 150 ha, 20 mtpa trial pond project including 100 ha of evaporation ponds and 100+ km of roads installed
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers15 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• LandCorpcoreImplementation/ SI/ Consulting Partner · 1 January 2016Phoenix was appointed to the LandCorp Specialist Environmental Service Provider Panel for three years in 2016. Their first contract award was to undertake rehabilitation works and monitoring for the Buckingham Way residential development in Collie, required to ensure compliance with EPBC Act approval conditions.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Jacobs: Global professional services firm with significant Australian environmental and approvals capability across transport, water and resources. Named as a Phoenix client on the Great Northern Highway Muchea to Wubin upgrades, illustrating the prime-contractor/subconsultant relationship typical with Phoenix peers.
• WSP Australia: Major international consultancy delivering environmental impact assessments, biodiversity surveys and approvals support across Australian mining, transport and property sectors. Competes with Phoenix for prime contractor roles on the same WA resources and infrastructure projects.
• GHD: Australian-headquartered engineering and environmental consultancy providing ecological, biodiversity and environmental management services to mining, infrastructure and government clients in WA. A direct competitor on multidisciplinary project teams where Phoenix often sits as a specialist subconsultant.
• AECOM: Global infrastructure consulting firm with a large environmental services practice in Australia covering EIA, ecological surveys, and approvals for mining, transport and land development. Overlaps directly with Phoenix on mining and infrastructure clients but competes from a much larger, multi-disciplinary platform.
• RPS Group (part of Tetra Tech): Australian environmental and marine consultancy (now part of Tetra Tech) with a significant ecology, EIA and approvals practice serving mining, oil and gas, transport and government clients. Competes for both prime and specialist ecological survey scopes similar to Phoenix's offerings.
• Stantec Australia: International consultancy with environmental assessment, ecology and rehabilitation practices supporting Australian mining, infrastructure and government projects. Competes for the same Western Australian environmental approvals workstreams.

Direct peers

• Ecologia Environment: Australian environmental consultancy providing biological surveys, environmental impact assessment and rehabilitation services to the resources, infrastructure and government sectors in WA and beyond. Operates as a comparable boutique competitor for ecological survey work.
• MBS Environmental: Western Australian-based specialist environmental consultancy delivering flora, fauna, SRE, subterranean fauna and rehabilitation services to the resources sector. A close regional boutique competitor with comparable technical offerings and WA mining client base.
• 360 Environmental: Western Australia-based environmental consultancy delivering flora, vegetation, fauna, SRE and aquatic ecology surveys to mining, infrastructure and land development clients. A direct boutique competitor with very similar geographic and service overlap to Phoenix.
• SLR Consulting: Global environmental and advisory consultancy with a strong Australian ecological services practice covering flora, fauna, subterranean fauna, SREs and rehabilitation for resources and infrastructure. Closest comparable in service mix and client base to Phoenix.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/phoenixenvironmental-sciences

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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