AN OPPORTUNITY FOR LEADERSHIP
Values
Profitability
Employees
Community
As the accompanying links illustrate, WHC’s wildlife habitat management
programs allow your company to:
- link corporate values with profitability and efficiency,
- promote employee empowerment, and
- build community within your region of operation.
Because they control over 60% of the land base in the United States, private landowners are playing an increasingly important role in the protection of biodiversity. Corporations in particular own extensive acreage and often hold the greatest quantity of undeveloped property within a developed region. In fact, according to some estimates, corporations together with other large private landowners own between one-fourth and one-third of the total U.S. land base. These holdings can range from relatively small corporate campuses to the vast acreage utilized in resource-intensive extractive industries, such as mining and timber. Often a large portion of corporate land is unused, set aside as a buffer zone for security or as a future operational site. Furthermore, because they are in the private sector, corporate landowners can offer more flexible land management and staffing than can be provided by many government agencies.
What results is the ability of corporations and other large private landowners to significantly contribute to the overall environmental health of the functioning ecosystem in which they operate by managing their properties for wildlife habitat. Managing corporate lands for wildlife habitat can make an important contribution to the regional resource base while demonstrating the economic viability by involving those landholders responsible for local economic growth.