Our Projects

Since 2008, TierraMar has been providing strategic, effective, innovative and balanced solutions for the conservation, protection and sustainable management of biodiversity and natural resources. TierraMar’s solutions ensure that businesses prosper and communities thrive through the wise and sustainable use of natural capital – balancing profit and purpose.

TierraMar has successfully implemented over 168 projects since 2008, and have provided consulting services to a number of international NGO’s and inter-governmental organisations including UN Environment, ADB, UNDP, GEF, SPREP, WWF, TNC and national governments on a wide variety of projects. Our project and consulting experience cover a diverse range of areas including biodiversity, conservation, capacity development, blue economy, natural capital, natural resource management and sustainability.

All 27 /Biodiversity & Conservation 6 /Blue & Green Economy Development 11 /Natural Capital Risk Management & Investment 6 /Natural Resource Management 8 /Strategic Planning & Capacity Building 9

30 x 30 MPA Target

TierraMar looked at the current extent and status of MPAs in the Pacific Islands region using data from the Marine Protected Area Atlas.

CLiP Regional Policy Workshop

TierraMar ran a workshop on Best Practice Management of Fishing Gear...

Shark and ray guide to best practice ecotourism

Responsible Shark and Ray Tourism

Responsible ecotourism can be a powerful, complementary conservation strategy...

CLiP Ghost Gear Abandoned Net Removal Vanuatu TierraMar

CLiP 2018-2019: Ghost Net Removal, Vanuatu

In early 2019, TierraMar partnered with the Vanuatu Environmental Science Society, World Animal Protection and Big Blue Vanuatu...

SeaNet Indonesia – Building a Sustainable Seafood
Industry to Support Coastal Communities in
the Arafura Sea

TierraMar has developed the SeaNet pilot project for the Coral Triangle Initiative (CTI) with our local partner, the Coral Triangle Centre (CTC)...

Workshop Facilitation – Coral Triangle Futures Think Tank – Expediting outcomes and impact at scale

Climate Change project evaluation Pacific

Strengthening Climate Change Information Management in the Pacific

TierraMar is undertaking independent, objective “whole of project” monitoring and evaluation of the 3 year Pacific iCLIM (Supporting the Regional Management of Climate Change Information in the Pacific) project...

Encouraging Innovation in
Climate Change Adaptation

In keeping with our focus on innovation, TierraMar is actively engaged in helping clients keep abreast of new trends and developments in the marine sector such as the investment potential of Blue Carbon...

Building the Coral Triangle
Blue Economy

As a contribution to the multi national Coral Triangle Initiative, TierraMar developed two business cases to demonstrate how investment in marine natural capital and sustainability is good for business in the Coral Triangle...

Transforming the “Heart of Borneo”
Green Economy

The Heart of Borneo Initiative is a multi country (Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei) and multi faceted programme seeking to bring transformational change to the Island of Borneo through applying “green economy” approaches...

Strengthening the first Ecosystem Restoration
project in Indonesia, in the Harapan Rainforest, Sumatra

A decade ago the Indonesian Ministry of Forestry (MoF) worked with a consortium of conservation organisations (Burung Indonesia, the RSPB and BirdLife International) to find mechanisms to prevent further forest degradation and to encourage reforestation and carbon storage...

Guiding Investment in Best Practices for Sustainable Coastal Resource
Development in Northern Rivers NSW

To enable the Northern Rivers Catchment Management Authority (NRCMA) to support sustainable use of the estuarine and marine environment in the Northern Rivers region of NSW Australia, TierraMar...

Developing the Business Case for
Marine Conservation in the Coral Triangle

TierraMar worked closely with key divisional and country marine program staff (Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and Solomon Islands) of The Nature Conservancy’s Indo-Pacific Division to develop a Coral Triangle Regional Priority Program Business Plan FY14-18...

Strengthening Heart of Borneo
Governance and Strategy

On behalf of the Malaysian, Indonesian and Brunei governments, TierraMar undertook a trilateral review and evaluation of the progress of the three Bornean governments towards the goals and aspirations of the 2007 Heart of Borneo Declaration, identifying what worked, what did not and how best to move forward in the future...

Blue Carbon – a Business Case
for the repair of Australia’s coastal wetlands

TierraMar undertook a technical and management review of the comparative carbon sequestration and mitigation opportunities across the Australian landscape and primary industries as the basis of a policy and management framework for blue carbon and coastal ecosystems conservation and repair for Australia...

Strengthening Marine Turtle
Management and Conservation across Cape York

The Cape York Marine Turtle Nest Monitoring Programme aims for sustainable and resilient populations of marine turtles in Cape York through protecting and improving breeding success, reducing feral pig predation and an ongoing involvement of local Indigenous communities in marine conservation...

Using Citizen Science to drive Innovation

Competitive funding markets in natural resource management highlight the importance of developing a range of more economically efficient techniques to address estuarine erosion...

Stopping the Ghost Nets

In Australia’s far remote north, the Gulf of Carpentaria pristine ecosystem is one of the last remaining safe havens for endangered marine species, including six of the world’s seven marine turtle species, dugongs and sawfish...

Promoting Natural Capital Risk Investment

TierraMar was lead author of the World Wildlife Fund and Asian Development Bank (WWF/ADB) the influential publication, “Ecological footprint and investment in natural capital in Asia and the Pacific.”...

Building Governance of the Coral Triangle –
Regional Secretariat Design, and Establishment
for the Coral Triangle Initiative on Coral Reefs,
Fisheries and Food Security (CTI-CFF)

Since 2010 TierraMar Consulting has led the organisational design, budgeting and operations scenario setting in support of the establishment of the permanent international Regional Secretariat for the CTI-CFF...

A Special Edition on Ocean Protection –
Blue Living Planet Report 2015

TierraMar worked with WWF to research and co-author a Special Edition on Ocean Protection - Blue Living Planet Report 2015. The report is a response to alarming statistics raised in WWF’s premiere publication on the state of the planet, The Living Planet Report 2014...

Enabling implementation of the Arafura and Timor
Seas Ecosystem Action Program

The Arafura and Timor Seas (ATS) are extremely rich in living and non-living marine resources. In 2014 a Strategic Action Program (SAP) to remove the key barriers to sustainable ecosystem-based management of the ATS was endorsed and adopted by the governments of Indonesia, Timor Leste and Australia under the Ministerial Declaration of the Arafura and Timor Seas...

Building a Framework for Biodiversity
Conservation in the Pacific

Under a project jointly commissioned by the Secretariat for the Pacific Regional Environment (SPREP) and the Pacific Islands Roundtable for Nature Conservation in the Pacific Islands, TierraMar led an extensive regional process to develop the Pacific Framework...