Businesses are increasingly required to demonstrate how they are managing their impacts on biodiversity. Indeed, many businesses are setting ambitions and targets of ‘No Net Loss’ or Net Gain’ of biodiversity, requiring a determination of which biodiversity features the ambition relates to, many of which may be species.
As a result, businesses need robust approaches for monitoring losses and gains across their priority biodiversity features. This Industry Briefing Note focusses on direct operations and provides a pragmatic and robust approach for assessing when it is appropriate to monitor species versus scenarios where habitats are monitored as a proxy for species abundance.
Category: Industry Briefing Notes
