Biodiversity Conservation

Manage biodiversity threats. Protect and sustain biodiversity and ecosystems.

Every human activity and development exerts impacts on the natural world, consequently leading to challenges around sustainability. For this reason, biodiversity protection and ecosystem restoration programs are central to ensuring ecological processes and balanced, healthy biological communities are maintained. The cost of not doing so will be substantial for future generations to come.

Featured Capabilities

We support your contributions to biodiversity conservation by delivering strategies that offer measurable results for sensitive biodiversity features. We help you plan and design habitat restoration strategies applicable to a diverse range of species and ecosystems. Further, we engage with stakeholders to provide a science-based approach, develop partnerships and achieve long-term results.

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Management Plan for Threatened Species

Species-specific management plans allow you to identify specific measures required to protect species potentially at risk or threatened. Our experts work closely with you to develop the tailored plan you need to improve your understanding of species ecology, manage species threats, define recovery objectives and identify clear, detailed conservation actions. We provide flexible, scalable plans, ranging from comprehensive to target-specific plans, depending on the at-risk or threatened species.

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Habitat Restoration and Creation

Habitat restoration and habitat creation enable you to offset biodiversity loss by providing new compensatory habitat opportunities. WSP’s biodiversity experts can help plan and design a broad range of habitat restoration and creation projects, including the creation of compensation wetlands, fish habitat, bat hibernation structures and restoration of caribou habitat. We can support you renew degraded, damaged or destroyed habitats to their original state and/or develop habitats that did not exist before.

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Monitoring of Threatened Species Populations

Monitoring threatened species is imperative to enhance biodiversity conservation actions. It allows for better access and use of data on species populations, habitats and threats. At WSP, we develop adapted monitoring protocols to determine population trends, threats and the efficiency of management interventions. We identify robust monitoring tools and methods and leverage our know-how and creativity to develop technological innovations that support your conservation efforts.

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Area-Based Conservation Efforts

Developing management plans for protected areas or identifying effective area-based conservation efforts are foundational for efficient conservation at the landscape level. We provide a holistic view of the local ecosystems and key biodiversity features of the areas, establish management objectives, detail conservation actions and monitoring measures, and provide a detailed framework for implementation. We help you develop detailed zoning plans with thorough landscape analysis and habitats mapping and help you engage with stakeholders that allow for the success of the implementation process.

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Clients We Help

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Mining, Resource and Industry

We help you find opportunities to conserve and enhance biodiversity in the areas you operate, meeting the call for ESG-conscious mining. Moreover, we collect and compile quality data to help you make informed decisions that generate nature-positive outcomes.

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Governmental Authorities and Public Organizations

We help you to develop and implement programs aimed at protecting threatened species and conserving natural habitats or restore degraded, damaged or destroyed habitats. We provide scalable plans, ranging from landscape to target-specific plans adapted to the ecology and threats associated with the targeted species or area.

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Forestry and Agriculture

Drawing on our multifaceted experience, we help you develop strategies tailored to help conserve local biodiversity. We consider landscape-level ecological requirements and actions that can improve outcomes for individual species. Further, we provide practical nature-based solutions specific to your corporate ESG requirements and compatible with the regulatory requirements of the region you operate.

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Energy Providers and Utilities

Our biodiversity experts, alongside our ESG advisors, can help you identify, monitor and address species- and habitat-specific challenges at various stages of a project life cycle. Whether you invite us at the early stage or advanced phase of a project, we help you make informed decisions to protect and restore biodiversity and natural habitats, thereby achieving operational, financial, and reputational goals.