Our framework for business and biodiversity
The tools and metrics available to help companies in their work with biodiversity are complex, impractical, hard to scale, and fail to factor in business constraints.
BioDiverse has developed the 4Rs Framework to address these challenges based on our deep understanding of conservation biology and business reality. This new practical and simple approach can be tailored to the geography and needs of each company. There is no one-size-fits-all in this work, but we can simplify and automate much of what is needed to reduce costs and enable scale up.
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Ensure representation by protecting examples of the widest range of habitat types to save the most species and their ecological interactions. This component is measured by monitoring the area of conserved habitats and ecoregions.
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Prioritize conservation of rare and threatened species and their habitats to avoid loss of species closest to extinction. This is measured against the new global Conservation Imperatives database - priority sites that should be protected to prevent extinction of rare species - complemented by ground surveying by a small team of local experts.
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Save the source populations and habitat of endangered large mammals and selected other species and assist in restoring and reducing threats to these species. This is measured by assessing population trends of key species which can be semi-automated with new visual and acoustic sensors, eDNA, and other tools.
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Ensure large intact areas of habitat are not fragmented and that isolated patches of critical habitats are reconnected . This is measured by assessing the extent of habitat intactness or of new corridors using free remote sensing imagery analyzed automatically with AI.
Salvadori’s pheasant, Sumatran montane forest, Indonesia.
Wollemi pine, Eastern Australian temperate forest.