All About Monitoring – Capturing Strong Data for Your Certification Application

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Monitoring is one of the foundations of a successful habitat or species conservation project, helping teams assess their progress and adjust their management practices accordingly.  

This webinar will explore what good monitoring is, why it’s important for documenting your success, and how to integrate monitoring into the management of your project and Conservation Certification® application. WHC staff will discuss the basic strategies for monitoring conservation projects, including using baseline data and designing a monitoring protocol that fits your project. During the webinar, WHC will also debut new, standardized habitat and species monitoring templates that teams can utilize for various project types. 

What you’ll learn:  

  • The importance of monitoring conservation projects  
  • What monitoring is needed for a strong Conservation Certification application 
  • Tactics for designing a comprehensive, but easy-to-use, monitoring protocol  
  • Instructions on recording monitoring observations using the new WHC templates  
  • How to use the monitoring data to evaluate and improve a project over time 

Who should take this webinar: 

  • Anyone new to conservation projects 
  • Site teams or partners looking to refresh or improve their monitoring skills 

Presenters: 

  • Caitlin Banigan, Manager, Conservation Certification, WHC 
  • Doreen Tadde, Conservation Specialist, WHC 

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Fostering Corporate-Community Relations through Meaningful Engagement

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Sponsored by Stellantis

Meaningful community engagement that goes beyond transactional interactions or conventional corporate philanthropy can greatly enhance a company’s ability to establish, maintain or restore social license to operate (SLO). Obtaining SLO involves building trust with community members and leaders through environmental and socially responsible actions that are informed by local needs, and then communicated to community members. Once established, SLO needs to be maintained through ongoing community outreach, and engagement strategies should be kept current with an attention to new data, policy changes, and shifts in community opinions and needs. As the current biodiversity and climate crises become more dire, and more opportunities for the private sector to address these issues arise, expectations for companies to act quickly, transparently and in conjunction with scientific consensus will continue to grow.

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Underground Wonders: The Importance of Caves and Karst in Bat Conservation

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The year 2021 has been declared the International Year of Caves and Karst, designed to promote and celebrate the importance of caves and the karst topography that creates so many of the world’s fascinating cave systems. Although often located within the earth, hidden from sight, these distinctive land features benefit not only the world’s bat population, but also other wildlife and humans.  

In this webinar, bat experts and advocates will take the audience deep into some of these other-worldly landscapes and discuss why caves and karst formations must be protected. The panel will highlight the most pressing threats that bats face and explain how anyone can help make a bat-friendly community, above and below the ground, during this year’s Bat Week (October 24-31) and beyond.  

What you’ll learn:  

  • Why wildlife, including bats, depend on subterranean habitats for survival, and how cave ecosystems benefit humans (such as providing water) 
  • How to protect bat caves and how to enhance bat habitat above the ground, whether in a backyard, corporate landscape or community park 

Who should take this webinar:  

  • Corporate teams who wish to protect on-site cave or karst features, or other forms of bat habitat 
  • Anyone interested in learning about bats or planning a Bat Week event 
  • Agencies, NGOs and other partners interested in managing lands for bats or implementing bat education 

Presenters:  

  • Limaris (Lima) Soto, Caves and Karst Program Lead/USFS GeoCorps America Program Coordinator, US Forest Service, Minerals and Geology Management, Washington Office  
  • Mylea Bayless, Chief of Strategic Partnerships, Bat Conservation International; member of Bat Week committee 
  • Bat Week panel — representatives will be available to answer questions on bat biology, certification of bat projects, bat-related resources and education opportunities for Bat Week 

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Nature-Based Pollution Prevention – Tactics for Implementation, Reporting and Partnerships

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From strategic tree plantings to wetland restoration projects, nature-based solutions (NbS) are quickly becoming a key part of many pollution prevention strategies. These solutions are accessible, scalable and offer many co-benefits, like increased biodiversity and climate resilience.  

In this webinar, experts and advocates from a federal agency, the private sector and a nonprofit will explore how NbS can advance pollution prevention goals on corporate lands while enhancing ecosystem services and contributing to local, regional and large-scale restoration efforts. The panelists will explain how their respective organizations approach pollution prevention, provide insights on implementation and share success stories from their work.

What you’ll learn:  

  • Best practices for nature-based pollution prevention 
  • How pollution prevention tactics can translate into key metrics 
  • The benefits of forming inter-sector partnerships for pollution prevention initiatives 

Who should take this webinar: 

  • Corporate teams looking to implement site-based pollution prevention work 
  • Representatives from nonprofits and government agencies who want to learn how corporations are utilizing NbS for pollution prevention  

Presenters:  

  • EPA Region 4
  • Primary Energy
  • Restore the Earth Foundation  

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Moths as a Performance Indicator: An Intro to Terrestrial Rapid BioAssessment

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Moths are largely nocturnal creatures, but they can shed light on local biodiversity in a unique way. Many of the world’s 160,000+ moth species have niche habitat needs. Knowing what species are present in an area (and which ones are conspicuously absent) can therefore tell us a lot about that habitat’s health.

In this webinar, Blaine Rothauser, a senior ecologist from GZA GeoEnvironmental, Inc. will share first-hand insights on how teams can translate moth inventories into meaningful baseline data about habitat value, while also helping us gain a new appreciation for moths’ beauty and diversity.

What you’ll learn:  

  • Why baseline data is important to conservation work
  • How moths can provide important clues about environmental integrity
  • Strategies for using species inventories to inform project design and adaptive management

Who should attend:  

  • Site teams looking for a new approach to data collection and habitat assessment
  • Anyone who wants to gain a greater appreciation for an overlooked group of insects

Presenter:  

  • Blaine Rothauser, Senior Natural Resource Specialist/Senior Ecologist/Rare Species Biologist, GZA GeoEnvironmental, Inc.

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Best Practices for Education Programming at Corporate Sites

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Conservation and biodiversity education programs offer meaningful, equitable and accessible opportunities for learners of all ages to discover something new and make a positive contribution to the environment. Educational programming is an important aspect of a company’s social license to operate and can produce long-term partnerships while providing benefit to the community.  Join panelists from CEMEX, Eastman and Bayer for a discussion on how to create meaningful education projects, from design and outreach to partnerships and evaluation.  Additionally, learn about the benefits of incorporating education initiatives at your site and the various forms education can take.

What you’ll learn:

  • Reasons why starting an education program at your site benefits companies and communities
  • What you need to know when starting or enhancing education initiatives
  • Challenges that other education programs have faced and how they overcame them
  • Ideas for different types of education activities

Who should attend:

  • Anyone interested in starting an education program at their site or improving an existing education program
  • Anyone interested in learning more about what corporate sites are doing for education work

Presenters:

  • Sheri Spivey, Community Relations Specialist – Florida Region, CEMEX
  • Michelle Holyfield, Team Leader, Responsible Care Compliance, Eastman
  • Sarah Marston, Environmental Coordinator, Bayer

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6 Fun Ways to Help Nature this Summer – A WHC Kid-Friendly Webinar

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School’s almost out! What are you looking forward to doing this summer? Nature provides us with a lot of fun things to do, especially when the weather gets warm – like camping, swimming in an ocean or lake, or simply playing outside. This summer let’s give something back to nature.  In this webinar, WHC staff will explore ways that anyone can help the environment through fun, creative activities that use supplies you probably already have at home!

You’ll learn: 

  • Common issues that animals and the environment face, and how to help.
  • How to create nature-themed crafts that make great gifts.
  • That eco-friendly action can be a lot of fun!

Who should take this webinar: 

  • Kids in grades K-5
  • This webinar is perfect for parents and kids to watch together!

Presenter:

  • Sienna Malik, Wildlife Habitat Council

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Supporting the Global Pollinator Population Through Local Action

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Sponsored by BASF

Given the interconnectivity of habitats and regions, and the key role pollinators play in global food production and trade, the collapse in pollinator populations poses threats to global biodiversity, food security and economic prosperity. It’s therefore critical that companies worldwide take action, contributing to the network of regional pollinator (and pollinator education) initiatives that together are addressing this global crisis.

The dedication to preserving local pollinators demonstrated through the featured case studies of this white paper can inspire acts of pollinator conservation on corporate lands of any size, in all industries and localities, meaning that any land manager can contribute to the global movement to protect these invaluable species.

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You Can be a Backyard Scientist – A WHC Kid-Friendly Webinar

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When you hear the word “nature,” what comes to mind? You may think of a tall, large rainforest…polar bears in the Arctic…lions in Africa…or maybe pandas in China. But nature is all around us, even in your own backyard or neighborhood park. To be a backyard scientist you don’t need special tools – just an inquisitive mind and an interest in the wonders of the plants and animals that live all around us.

Join WHC staff for an exciting online scavenger hunt and get tips on how to start your own nature adventure.

You’ll learn:   

  • How the power of observation can teach you new things about plants and animals.
  • What a scientist actually does, and how to become a scientist (it’s easier than you think!)
  • That biodiversity is everywhere if you know how to look for it.

Who should take this webinar:   

  • Kids in grades K-5
  • This webinar is perfect for parents and kids to watch together!

Presenter:   

  • Rebecca Silvey, Wildlife Habitat Council

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Private Sector Potential for Community-first Climate Action

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Sponsored by Cleveland-Cliffs

This white paper explores the importance of Natural Climate Solutions (NCS) like sequestering carbon in soil and vegetation, installing green infrastructure for greater resiliency and biodiversity, and conducting NCS-oriented outreach. WHC-certified programs worldwide are already making big contributions to the fight against climate change, even if the programs’ stated goals speak to other environmental needs. Several of these programs are showcased in this paper, but countless others have created similar impact through their conservation, education and outreach work.

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