Not all conservation projects deliver positive outcomes for nature and people
Marine ecosystems like coral reefs are complex, high-biodiversity systems that are facing an uncertain future under continued climate change. Any conservation or restoration project hoping to build (or reduce the loss of) reef biodiversity will be up against significant intervention challenges, for example scope for assisted adaptation. The same is true for mangrove, seagrass and kelp conservation and restoration.
Inadequate intervention effectiveness or inability to demonstrate outcomes represent opportunity costs for conservation or restoration teams, and a financial risk for investors.
We help you predict and assess project outcomes at the outset, and help you develop plans for increased chance of success. We will (1) work with you to understand how the efficacy and cost-efficiency of your conservation or restoration project can be maximised and (2) how project impacts can best be measured and reported such that investments are derisked to the extent possible.
How do we save diverse ecosystems to sustain people and economies in a changing climate?
Coral reefs, seagrasses and mangroves are valuable but sensitive ecosystems. Helping them prosper under climate change requires strategies that support their resilience and adaptive capacity, and that of dependent people, industries and economies.
We work with you to explore strategic options and identify solutions that have the best chance of delivering against triple-bottom-line objectives in the short and long term.
We help you navigate complexity, risk and uncertainty to inform effective decision-making.
Using a robust portfolio approach to risk management, we work towards win-win outcomes for environment and people.
We help you develop cost-effective reef monitoring for the management of complex systems.
Using a set of guiding principles that maximise signal and minimise noise, we design fit-for-purpose monitoring programs, tightly tuned to the objectives of both the monitoring program and the management strategy. We model the approach that describes and simulates your system so that your decision-making is informed in the face of critical uncertainty.
We help you prepare for severe climate change by managing ecosystem renovations and climate rescue missions.
Solutions are customised for maximum opportunity and minimum risk, taking a 'prevention before repair' approach.
“Our past, our present, and whatever remains of our future, absolutely depend on what we do now .”