Building a Successful Conservation Program: A Toolkit

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Suitable for those who are either beginning a new program, or improving a current one, in this webinar we’ll discuss the keys to building a strong and successful corporate conservation program. From planning and design to implementation, monitoring, maintenance and evaluation, a variety of tools are available to help you meet biodiversity and community engagement goals.

You’ll learn:

  • How to select a project, set objectives, meet conservation and community needs, and implement activities that reflect your resources
  • Strategies to develop partnerships and teams to support your goals and alignments
  • How to document your progress and maintain momentum
  • Best practices for maintenance of the project over time and monitoring protocol basics
  • Tactics for evaluation and adaptive management (why, how, and what to document)

Presenter:

  • Colleen Beaty, Manager, Conservation Content and Partnerships, Wildlife Habitat Council

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How to Select the Best Lessons for Your Education Projects

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When you’ve decided to use your habitat for education, there many details to consider—but selecting the right curriculum is not as complex as you might think. We’ve gathered leaders in curricula and seasoned practitioners to show you the way to success in selecting the perfect lessons for your K-12 age audience, whether it’s formal education (schools) or informal education (event days, fairs and scouting groups).

You’ll learn:

  • How to select ready-made lessons and get your volunteers or local educators trained in the very best curricula from case studies
  • How to identify the best curricula and connect with resources for your program that meet the learning needs of your audience
  • Examples of how to present your project to your community to demonstrate its correlation to state/provincial or national standards and how to present this in your WHC Conservation Certification application

Presenters:           

  • Julia Beck, Vice President of Networks, Project WET Foundation
  • Jenna Register Emerson, Communications & Public Affairs Manager – Florida Region, CEMEX
  • Vernon Marcum, Savage Branch, Marathon Petroleum
  • Thelma Redick, Sr Director, Conservation Content and Partnerships, Wildlife Habitat Council
  • Jaclyn Stallard, Director of Curriculum and Partnerships, Project Learning Tree
  • Elena Takaki , Director, Project WILD, Association of Fish & Wildlife Agencies

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Birds: Nature’s Key Performance Indicators

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A call to action for corporate landowners to restore, enhance and manage habitat for birds
Sponsored by Ontario Power Generation

Birds are everywhere. From the grey pigeon seen on city streets to the brightly feathered tropical species found in rain forests, birds have colonized every continent and evolved to inhabit niches both specialized and general. Because they are everywhere, birds can easily be the focus of a corporate conservation effort. Most species respond well to conservation management, making them an ideal indicator to overall ecosystem health. With accessible technology and an increased need, now is the time for corporate landowners to engage in bird conservation projects.

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Business and Biodiversity: A Critical Partnership for the Future

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In today’s competitive landscape, engaging in corporate conservation is emerging as an innovative approach to meet both business and environmental needs. Indeed, corporate spending on sustainability and circular economy initiatives is on the rise — and yielding increased sales and cost savings. Demonstrating leadership in corporate conservation is crucial to meeting sustainability goals and achieving stakeholder collaboration.

You’ll learn:

  • Links between conservation program investment and business benefits, including cost savings, risk reduction, increased employee engagement and productivity
  • How biodiversity-based programs offer the advantage of flexibility not only to adapt to different size companies, operations and lands, but also across types of landscapes
  • How to use the WHC model to create measurable, meaningful conservation and community engagement projects
  • Tools available to get started in building your business case for biodiversity-based programs

Presenter:

  • Thelma Redick, Senior Director, Conservation Content and Partnerships, Wildlife Habitat Council

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Bats and Agave: Nectar Corridors and Cultural Connections in the Southwest

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In Mexico and the American southwest, agave serves as a crucial nectar source for pollinators, particularly long-nosed bats. The continued decline in agave availability threatens long-nosed bat populations. This webinar will demonstrate how corporate conservation programs in Arizona, New Mexico, western Texas and Mexico can join the growing and critical initiative to support bat populations by restoring the agave nectar corridor.

Presentation slides are available in both Spanish and English.

You’ll learn:

  • How to effectively plant, monitor and maintain agave on your site for habitat restoration
  • How to align activities to broader habitat connectivity/nectar corridor efforts
  • The ecological relationship between bats and agave
  • The cultural significance of agave in Mexican communities

Presenter:

  • Mylea Bayless, Senior Director of Network and Partnerships, Bat Conservation International

For more information about the importance of agave to bats, read Mylea’s guest blog post “Save a Bat, Plant an Agave.”

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Fired Up! Using Prescribed Fire in Your Habitat

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Fire is a natural part of both forest and grassland ecology. The human tendency to suppress fire can sometimes allow invasive plants to out-compete native grasses and flowers, therefore reducing plant and animal diversity. Prescribed burns, also known as controlled fires, can be a valuable tool in habitat management and restoration. In this webinar, learn how several WHC-certified programs successfully use prescribed fire to manage and restore native habitat.

You’ll learn:

  • The basics of implementing a prescribed burn, including safety considerations, burn techniques and tips for communicating with the community about burn plans and outcomes
  • The types of habitats where prescribed fire can be used for management or restoration, and what kinds of outcomes burns can help accomplish
  • How to work with partners to plan and implement a prescribed burn

Presenters:

  • Clayton Frazer, Senior Ecologist, Eco-Resource Consulting, Inc.
  • Casey Groce, Environmental Specialist, Sr., Southern Nuclear Operating Company
  • Kristine Thompson, Environmental Manager and Quality Assurance, Freeport-McMoRan Inc.

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Project EduBat: Learn and Share About the Benefits of Bats

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This webinar is designed for those interested in teaching about bats. It is presented by the U.S. Forest Service, a partner of the Wildlife Habitat Council.

Bats are amazing animals that are vital to the health of our environment and economy – eating tons of insects nightly, pollinating flowers, and spreading seeds that that grow new plants and even trees. But bats are in decline and we need to heighten awareness through education. Project EduBat is a turn-key toolkit designed to help anyone teach about the benefits of bats. Project EduBat has all the tools you need inspire others to become a champion for bats.

You’ll learn:

  • All about bats, the conservation threats they face and how you can help them
  • Award-winning educational activities to engage both children and adults in bat conservation
  • How to obtain a Project EduBat trunks

Presenters:

  • Cynthia Sandeno, District Ranger, U.S. Forest Service
  • Andrea Futrell, Curriculum developer, Project EduBat

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The Conservation Connection

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How on-the-ground actions for biodiversity and education can contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals
Sponsored by Chemours

All businesses can contribute to the prosperity of the communities in which they are located, as well as contribute to protecting, restoring or enhancing nature through ecological stewardship practices on their lands. The SDGs provide the ideal framework from which to connect corporate lands to community improvement, and to report interconnected corporate citizenship actions into CSR initiatives.

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Blue-Green Infrastructure: Building Resiliency in Corporate Habitats

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With a changing climate, it is vital that we think beyond traditional engineering. Blue-Green infrastructure (BGI) emphasizes the importance of combining water management alongside green infrastructure, and seeks to meet the challenges of climate change by “building with nature”. When incorporated into your projects, BGI can make your habitat more resilient to storms of increasing intensity and high-water events. Our speakers are recognized worldwide as experts in blue-green infrastructure and bring decades of expertise and case studies on storm recovery, resiliency and flood-event evaluation.

You’ll learn:

  • How to incorporate natural structure into your conservation projects
  • How to consider BGI projects as part of your long-term operational planning and social responsibility programming in industrial, urban and suburban settings

Presenters:

  • Richard Baldwin, Principal Consultant, Ramboll
  • Rick Wenning, Principal and Leader of Ramboll’s Ecology and Sediment Management Practice

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Grassland Birds in Decline: How You Can Help

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Grassland birds are in decline across North America. Can your meadow or grassland habitat help to support populations of these resident and migratory species? Would you like to move beyond nest box projects to see your meadow or grasslands come alive with the sound and movement of native avian species, further strengthening your habitat restoration goals? In this webinar, you’ll hear from experts in grassland birds, land management and partnership building who will provide resources applicable to grasslands and meadows, both large and small, in regions across the United States.

You’ll learn:

  • The current state of grasslands bird species and factors that contribute to their decline
  • How specific management practices can help to bolster breeding populations and what programs and partnerships can help you create habitat for migratory species
  • Tools for better monitoring of grassland species and how your efforts support your Conservation Certification

Presenters:

  • Daniel Casey, Coordinator, Northern Great Plains Joint Venture
  • Joel Merriman, Conservation Specialist, Wildlife Habitat Council

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