Green Infrastructure Project Guidance
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Green infrastructure is an approach to mitigating environmental challenges using vegetation, soils and natural processes as part of a living engineered solution.
Introduction
Green infrastructure is an approach to mitigating environmental challenges using vegetation, soils and natural processes as part of a living engineered solution.
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Integrated Vegetation Management (IVM) is a system of land management generally associated with infrastructure corridors, now ubiquitous across the landscape, including pipeline, transmission and rail. The corridors traverse a myriad of ecosystems, and by their operational nature, require continuous maintenance. IVM allows for objectives related to conservation to be set for segments of a system, prompting the maintenance and management of those lands according to desired outcomes of biodiversity and habitats.
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Awareness and community engagement projects target a wide variety of learners who attend conservation-themed events and tours involving the corporate habitat. Awareness and community engagement projects are extremely important as gateway experiences for diverse audiences to gain knowledge of an important conservation topic or first-hand experience with their local habitat.
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Enhanced or permanent protection of corporate lands through land conservation agreements means that companies have voluntarily chosen to temporarily or permanently prevent development of an identified property or group of properties. These are lands that have been set aside for a variety of conservation-related purposes. Land conservation agreements can be used to protect water quality, scenic values and wildlife habitat, as well as serve as sites for education on a broad range of conservation issues.
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Remediation involves the cleanup of contaminants from environmental media such as soil, groundwater, sediment or surface water, with the goal of protecting human health and the environment. The cleanup process can be subject to an array of regulatory requirements from a variety of overseeing agencies and legislation. Remediation projects can occur in urban, rural and suburban environments and have the ability to be transformative for both habitat and community.
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Avian species, commonly known as birds, are found on every continent and play important roles in the world’s ecosystems and cultures. Globally, birds face a myriad of threats, including habitat destruction, fragmentation and degradation, invasive species, migration mortality, environmental pollutants, and climate change.
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Bats are the only mammals with true flight capabilities. With 1,331 species of bats globally, bats can be found in all regions except the polar regions, extreme deserts, and the most remote islands.
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Deserts are commonly defined as dry regions receiving less than 10 inches of rain per year on average. Deserts generally have sparse plant cover, except in depressions where water accumulates. In many cases, the sandy, stony or rocky substrate contributes more to the appearance of the landscape than does the vegetation.
Join WHC staff from the Biology and Education Department where you will learn how employee education, through “Lunch and Learns”, is an effective way to strengthen your volunteer team for both Wildlife at Work and Corporate Lands for Learning programs. “Lunch and Learns” are training events scheduled during the lunch hour, which provide learning and training opportunities that might not otherwise fit into a busy workday. By offering the training sessions at lunch time, these “Lunch and Learns” can garner more interest in your programs, gain further support from the workforce on-site, and encourage more people to join your volunteer team. Through this course, participants will learn how “Lunch and Learns” can improve employee skills, increase attention and recognition of team efforts and accomplishments, create awareness of particular issues, and improve internal communication about your programs. In addition, case studies are presented from Wildlife at Work and Corporate Lands for Learning programs that successfully utilize the “Lunch and Learn” approach to employee education.
Reptiles and amphibians, collectively called herps, can tell you a lot about the overall health of various ecosystems. Amphibians are considered indicator species because their presence in an ecosystem is dependent upon certain environmental conditions, especially with respect to water quality. Reptiles, such as snakes, play an important role in food chains and are found in a variety of habitats. Join Jeff Popp of the Wildlife Habitat Council for the September Conservation Academy course where you will learn how to increase local populations of reptiles and amphibians by creating habitat for them on your corporate property. This course will also discuss how monitoring herps can be included in your Wildlife Habitat Council certifications.
WHC is a proud member of the United Nations Global Compact and Business for Nature.
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