Restoring Ecosystems Through Invasive Species Control

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Sponsored by Ontario Power Generation

Invasive species are among the top five threats to biodiversity worldwide. As privately owned lands make up a vast amount of the earth’s land surface, it is imperative that the corporate sector become an active player in invasive species management efforts.

This white paper details the key methods corporations can use to control invasive species, restore native habitats and educate the surrounding community.

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Easy Steps to Start Using Drones to Manage Invasive Species

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Monitoring for invasive species is an important aspect of habitat management, but can be challenging on large or inaccessible areas. Drone imagery can save many man-hours of survey time, typically done on foot, and often in remote areas. Their ability to fly slow and low provides high quality imagery and information in a very site-specific manner. Join us on this webinar to learn how the latest in drone technology can facilitate remote monitoring for invasive species.

You’ll learn:

  • How to use new drone software and cameras for remote monitoring of invasive species
  • What data you can expect to gather when using drones for monitoring
  • How to use the data to make informed decisions about invasive species management

Presenter:

  • Gene Huntington, Lead Consultant, Steward Green

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Enhancing Habitat Connectivity Through Corporate Conservation

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The Private Sector Role in Reconnecting Habitat for Ecosystem Health and Resiliency
Sponsored by Bruce Power

Healthy habitats are necessary for plants and animals to survive and thrive. One measure of the health of a habitat is the degree to which it is isolated from other habitats by land management practices or development, commonly referred to as fragmentation. Fragmentation is one of the biggest threats to biodiversity across the planet, as it can prevent species from moving to hunt, mate, disperse to new areas or escape predators. When corporate landowners engage in ecological connectivity initiatives to reduce fragmentation, they are contributing to landscape-scale efforts that have benefits beyond the corporate footprint and across the entire ecoregion.

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Invasive Species: Resources and Techniques | Part 2

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Land managers have a wide range of techniques available to them in preventing, detecting and controlling invasive species. This webinar will provide a broad view of these management techniques focusing heavily on terrestrial invasive species.  Through case studies, we will highlight the benefits of each of these techniques and explain how they can be used in practice.

Note: Given the limited time, this webinar is not a comprehensive review of management techniques; rather, it is an informative session to provide the audience with useful resources and proven techniques.

This webinar is the second in a two-part series of webinars. The first, Invasive Species: An Introduction | Part 1, is also available on-demand. While is it not mandatory to view Part 1 before participating in this webinar, it is recommended.

Presenter:

  • Shefali Mehta, PhD

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Invasive Species: An Introduction | Part 1

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Invasive species pose a significant threat to the environment, damaging both land and water across the U.S. This webinar will provide an introduction to invasive species with a review of the characteristics of terrestrial (plant and insect) and aquatic invasive species, and clarification on the difference between a non-native species and an invasive species, explaining why that distinction matters when managing lands for conservation.

We will also discuss the proximate drivers of species introductions and, using select case studies, we will highlight the damaging impact of invasive species on native population and landscapes.

Presenter:

  • Shefali Mehta, PhD

This webinar is the first in a two-part series of webinars. Participants of this webinar voted to select a species to be explored in-depth in the Invasive Species: Resources and Techniques | Part 2 webinar in November.

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Invasive Species Project Guidance

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Introduction

When species are introduced into an ecosystem where they do not naturally occur, the climatic and biological controls which limited them in their native habitat, such as predators, parasites and competing species, may not be present. As a result, some of these species become invasive, causing harm to that ecosystem by aggressively outcompeting or predating upon other species.

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