Junglist Arboricultural Consulting
A healthy feature tree in a formal urban planter setting

Considered
arboriculture
for places that matter.

Junglist Arboricultural Consulting provides independent technical advice on trees in the built environment — risk, retention, protection and the long-term stewardship of the urban forest.

The Practice

A small practice with a long memory of trees.

Junglist Arboricultural Consulting is the practice of Martin Spencer, an arboriculturist with more than twenty-five years' work across urban forestry, tree risk assessment, development support and municipal asset management — most recently stewarding approximately one million public trees as City Arborist for the City of Gold Coast.

We work with local government, landscape architects, planners, developers and private landowners on the questions that trees pose to the built environment: whether to retain, how to protect, what to manage, when to remove. Our advice is technical, independent, and grounded in the Australian Standards.

"Trees are slow assets in a fast world. Good arboricultural advice buys time — for the tree, the project, and the community that will live with it."

Services

Areas of practice

Engagements range from single-tree risk advice through to long-form urban-forest strategy. A selection of the work the practice routinely undertakes is set out below.

01

Arboricultural Impact Assessment

AS4970-aligned assessments for development applications, infrastructure works and DA conditions.

02

Tree Risk Assessment

TRAQ-qualified Level 1 and Level 2 inspections for landowners, councils and asset managers.

03

Project Arborist

On-site supervision, tree protection compliance and root investigation during construction.

04

Urban Forest Strategy

Policy, asset planning and species selection for municipal and master-planned tree populations.

05

Habitat & Biodiversity

Retention strategies and artificial-hollow programs that keep declining trees in service.

06

Expert Reporting & Expert Witness

Technical reports, second opinions and independent review for legal and planning matters, including expert witness engagements for the Land Court and QCAT.

Selected work

Australia's largest artificial tree-hollow habitat program.

Conceived and championed during tenure as City Arborist for the City of Gold Coast, the program activated declining and dead habitat trees that would otherwise have been removed — installing more than 650 artificial hollows across parks, open space and natural areas.

650+
Hollows installed
85–90%
Wildlife occupancy
4 yrs
Program duration
Arboricultural inspection of a habitat hollow
Habitat tree inspection · SEQ
Credentials

Qualified, current, accountable.

  • Tree Risk Assessment Qualification (TRAQ)
  • AQF Level 5 Diploma of Arboriculture
  • Certificate III Horticulture
  • AS4373 Pruning of Amenity Trees
  • AS4970 Protection of Trees on Development Sites
  • Former City Arborist · City of Gold Coast
Get in touch

Have a tree, a site, or a project worth a second opinion?

We accept a small number of engagements each quarter — from single arboricultural impact assessments through to retained advisory work.

Request a consultation