How does it contribute to the objective?
This approach should enhance existing biodiversity, but primarily protect endangered fauna and flora. In some areas certain fauna and flora have already disappeared, with the external stakeholders we want to see if our sites can serve as stepping stones in the hope that the disappeared fauna and flora can eventually recover.
How does it contribute to the objective?
The interventions are all nature-based solutions that enhance, maintain or restore the value of biodiversity
Criteria:
Respect and/or enhance the specific environmental and ecological qualities of the area (e.g. topography, landscape type, local flora and fauna,...). Strengthen the ecological connection between the natural solutions and the surrounding natural areas
Maintenance criteria:
Aquafin has drafted site biodiversity management guidelines for each location, which are included in a framework contract for green space management.
How:
The interventions are all nature-based solutions that enhance, maintain or restore biodiversity value. We focus on both fauna, flora and the environment.
What are the benefits?
Our plants are not accessible to third parties for security reasons, so the experience of nature is mainly a prerogative of our own employees and visitors. Collaboration with and advice from external stakeholders is important to achieve the best outcome for this project. Aquafin believes that it is important to showcase that industrial sites can also be developed in a biodiverse way. Focusing on biodiversity is part of our corporate social responsibility.
