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Vacancy:  ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNICIAN         Fixed Term Contract - 1 year

Vacancy: ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNICIAN Fixed Term Contract - 1 year

NCC's Environmental Management service line requires an Environmental Technician to provide environmental compliance on a short-term project. Kindly note that the requirement is for a fulltime placement on the client’s…
Baboon Proofing Your Property

Baboon Proofing Your Property

There can be no doubt that the Cape Peninsula is a beautiful place to call home. We are privileged to live in a global biodiversity hotspot where much of the…
Vacancy: OHS CONSULTANT

Vacancy: OHS CONSULTANT

NCC's SHERQ business unit, requires an Occupational Health and Safety Consultant with SACPCMP registration. Purpose: To deliver Safety, Health, Environmental, Risk and Quality related consulting services to clients. Based in…
CLIMATE CHANGE AND MARINE HEATWAVES

CLIMATE CHANGE AND MARINE HEATWAVES

Marine heatwaves negatively impact marine life. For example, marine heatwave events destroy coral reefs and kelp forests and can even cause mass mortality in fish populations, often leading to detrimental…
RAPID RESPONSE - FIREFIGHTING AGENT SERVICES

RAPID RESPONSE - FIREFIGHTING AGENT SERVICES

WILDFIRES CAN ENDANGER LIFE, LIVELIHOODS AND PROPERTY REQUIRING A SPECIALISED PROFESSIONAL AND RAPID RESPONSE. FIGHTING FIRES FOR YOU NCC has decades of experience locally and abroad (in the United States)…
Effective Alien Vegetation Control Plans

Effective Alien Vegetation Control Plans

It is often said that in conservation that, apart from rehabilitation, we cannot make any place better, we can only protect and conserve what is already there. Invasive species pose…
Helitack for the Western Cape

Helitack for the Western Cape

At the request of the Western Cape Disaster Management and Fire/Rescue Services, two private companies have come together to improve the effectiveness of the Western Capes Provincial government’s proactive approach…
NCC Health and Safety Services

NCC Health and Safety Services

Our overall vision is to be the leading player in the development of a safe and healthy economy and professional environment which understands and promotes a positive Occupational Health and…
Erosion Rectification and Prevention

Erosion Rectification and Prevention

NCC Environmental Services (“NCC”) was contacted by one of our long-term clients, Vergelegen Wine Estate and requested to rehabilitate a large embankment adjacent to one of the farm dam spillways…
NCC Wildfire Services

NCC Wildfire Services

With effective fire management planning and firefighting resources, the negative impacts of wildfires can be mitigated whilst still allowing essential natural fire-related processes to take place. Since inception in 2003,…
Human Wildlife Conflict

Human Wildlife Conflict

The South African experience would not be complete without some level of animal interaction. With natural areas bordering the urban edge many of these encounters are unfortunately unwelcome and often…
Integrated Wildfire Management Plans

Integrated Wildfire Management Plans

Wildfire planning and preparation is an integral aspect of the inevitable wildfire events that occur every year in South Africa. Runaway wildfires are something that must be expected as it…
Vegetation Rehabilitation: Understand then Act

Vegetation Rehabilitation: Understand then Act

Developments often coincide with a certain level of unavoidable damage caused to the surrounding environment. Fortunately in most cases much of this damage can be mitigated and rectified through proper…
Search and Rescue of animals that face habitat destruction

Search and Rescue of animals that face habitat destruction

In order to lessen the environmental impact resulting from developments in natural areas faunal or, ‘animal’ search and rescue may be required to mitigate the impact on animal species. This…
Keeping Cape Peninsula Baboons Wild

Keeping Cape Peninsula Baboons Wild

The overall goal of the Urban Baboon Programme is to keep the Cape Peninsula chacma baboons wild. Baboons fulfill important ecological roles in the Cape Peninsula ecosystem which contribute towards…
Rescuing a juvenile baboon from a snare

Rescuing a juvenile baboon from a snare

Last week while cycling in the mountains above Constantia, a member of the public spotted a juvenile baboon from the Mountain Troop with a wire wrapped around its neck.
Update on restoration project to fix accidental damage

Update on restoration project to fix accidental damage

About 12 months ago a vehicle accident caused considerable damage to a piece of fynbos. NCC Environmental Services were contracted to restore the impacted area and returned to the site…
Correctly managing dams for better healthier results

Correctly managing dams for better healthier results

NCC Environmental Services assists Estates, Farm managers and landowners to better understand their waterbodies through information gathering activities such as fish sampling and water analysis and in conjunction with renowned…
Methodical Monitoring of Dust Fallout for Compliance

Methodical Monitoring of Dust Fallout for Compliance

Dust Fallout Monitoring is a nationally legislated scientific monitoring practice used in order to quantify and help identify the source of airborne dust particles that are settling at a particular…
Promoting environmental economic growth

Promoting environmental economic growth

NCC has been appointed by the Department of Environment, Forestry & Fisheries (DEFF) to provide environmental project management technical services and administration, assistance to the Ithemba Phakama Project.
SAMPLING, IDENTIFYING AND ANALYSING THE HEALTH OF RIVERS

SAMPLING, IDENTIFYING AND ANALYSING THE HEALTH OF RIVERS

How do you know if a development is, or is not, causing harm to a river or watercourse? SASS5 Aquatic Biomonitoring is a service offered by NCC Environmental Services (NCC)…
Does the environment need us or will it be better without us?

Does the environment need us or will it be better without us?

We as humans are both the cause of "natural" infections, but also the cure, and have to aid in the planets integral immune system. We need to assist, manage and…
Juliet Crew

Juliet Crew

Follow this journey of NCC's female firefighters in this picture gallery. NCC Environmental Services, in partnership with Chrysalis Academy have embarked on an exciting journey to uplift a group...
Collecting of scientific data: Citizen Science

Collecting of scientific data: Citizen Science

Citizen science is the collection of scientific data from observations made by the general public and a method of collecting important environmental information. Citizen science has a long history which…
GIS Consulting: Designing data-driven decision-making solutions

GIS Consulting: Designing data-driven decision-making solutions

NCC is a leader in spatial and attribute data analytics for a wide variety of sectors. NCC uses scientifically proven methods, combined with the latest commercial and opensource technologies, to…
Producing high quality botanical impact assessments and site appraisals

Producing high quality botanical impact assessments and site appraisals

South Africa’s Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) laws as per the National Environmental Management: Biodiversity Act (NEMBA) are crucial in ensuring that sustainable development is guided by informed...
Implementing restoration measures to fix accidental damage

Implementing restoration measures to fix accidental damage

When an unfortunate vehicle accident veered off the side of a steep mountain pass, the result caused considerable damage to valuable fynbos growing on the slope below the road. NCC…
HotShots: NCC's Elite Wildland Firefighters

HotShots: NCC's Elite Wildland Firefighters

As fires adapt to the changing natural environment, becoming bigger and stronger, so too has the response been in tackling these blazes in the form of NCC Environmental Service’s Type…
Celebrating our seas: World Oceans Day 2020

Celebrating our seas: World Oceans Day 2020

One of the last true and most important of wildernesses are the world’s oceans. Over 70% of our oxygen comes from the ocean of which only 5% has been properly…
Baboon monitoring during events - Table Mountain National Park

Baboon monitoring during events - Table Mountain National Park

Mitigating human-baboon conflict within Table Mountain National Park (TMNP) to ensure that events and productions take place effortlessly. The TMNP boasts a quota of 4.2 million visitors annually, making it…
Fire Agent Service: A Private Firefighting Response

Fire Agent Service: A Private Firefighting Response

Imagine having to deal not only with a runaway fire on or near your property but also the possible legal ramifications of damage caused as a result thereof. According to…
The need for Faunal and Biodiversity Impact Assessing

The need for Faunal and Biodiversity Impact Assessing

Biodiversity assessments are at their core in depth studies of a particular area with key focus being on variation and variability of living organisms within that particular eco-system or habitat.…
The Wildland-Urban Interface:  A customised decision-making solutions.

The Wildland-Urban Interface: A customised decision-making solutions.

Now more than ever, the ability to make informed data driven decisions is paramount for project success. Over the past 10 years, NCC has become a leader in geospatial data…
Developing a Risk Adjusted Strategy for COVID-19 - Return to work

Developing a Risk Adjusted Strategy for COVID-19 - Return to work

Whilst the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic will be with us for the foreseeable future, we’re all looking forward to getting back to work in line with the Risk Adjusted…
Plants regenerate after a disaster and so will we

Plants regenerate after a disaster and so will we

COVID-19 is spreading across the globe like a massive wildfire and much like a rooted plant that can’t escape a fire; we will all be affected by this COVID-19 is…
Increasing botanical biodiversity in old crop fields

Increasing botanical biodiversity in old crop fields

From time to time these fields become worn out or are no longer farmed thus being left to naturally recover. Unfortunately the activities of farming on these areas have limited…
Green-fields Airport Project: King Shaka International Airport

Green-fields Airport Project: King Shaka International Airport

The King Shaka International Airport was one of the most high profile and costly construction projects ever undertaken in KwaZulu Natal. It was also the first green-fields airport project undertaken…
Search and Rescue of plants that face habitat destruction

Search and Rescue of plants that face habitat destruction

Many essential developments have a downside in that they often cause habitat and associated species loss. In order to mitigate and reduce this impact, a botanical search and rescue may…
Safeguarding the Wild Coast on the set of Blood Diamond

Safeguarding the Wild Coast on the set of Blood Diamond

The location was successfully rehabilitated to a condition that closely resembled its natural state; allowing nature to complete the rest and Blood Diamond went on to be honoured with several…
Managing baboon-human conflict for the City of Cape Town

Managing baboon-human conflict for the City of Cape Town

NCC managed the City of Cape Town’s Baboon Monitoring Programme, aimed at reducing conflict between humans and baboons on the...
The All-Woman Wildland Firefighting Project

The All-Woman Wildland Firefighting Project

In a bid to increase feet on the ground for an ever changing fire season in the Western Cape, NCC Environmental Services, in partnership with Chrysalis Academy, the Consulate General…
Environmental Emergency: The Salvage of the Seawin Sapphire

Environmental Emergency: The Salvage of the Seawin Sapphire

Amid a winter storm in Table Bay Harbour the Seawin Sapphire, a 151 ton fishing trawler, lost engine power, dragged anchor and ran aground on Kreefte Bay Beach in Blaauwberg.…
Managing and mitigating environmental risks at Medupi

Managing and mitigating environmental risks at Medupi

The 4800 MW coal-fired Medupi power station in the Lephalale area of Limpopo Province is one of the largest construction projects in South Africa’s history. During the six-year construction period,…