Partnership and Biodiversity

leading renewables companies including Eden Renewables, NextEnergy, Belltown Power, Bluefield and Octopus to implement the highest biodiversity standards within large-scale solar farms;

trade associations including Solar Energy UK to develop best practice guidance for biodiversity management;

the NatureSave Trust, with whom we have written a practical guide to creating wildlife habitats on solar farms;

major mining companies including Newmont and BHP Billiton to support the management of biodiversity on their mineral concessions;

Fauna and Flora International, with whom we have co-written Good Practice Guidance for Marine Oil and Gas and An Assessment of the Risks and Impacts of Seabed Mining on Marine Ecosystems;

Wild Power, a voluntary certification scheme for bringing back native wildlife to renewable energy facilities;

Lancaster University and Clarkson and Woods on research into improving biodiversity on renewable energy sites; and 

conservation organisations including Marwell Wildlife and Grevy’s Zebra Trust to support their landscape level conservation programmes in East Africa. This includes research into the endangered Grevy’s zebra.