biodiversity consulting

XS NRG is one of few multi-disciplinary consultancies that offer specialist advice in biodiversity management.

We provide biodiversity advice and fieldwork assistance to the private, public and third sectors alike. We aim to bring intelligent, creative, real-world solutions to emerging biodiversity issues such as biodiversity offsets, biodiversity indicators and bespoke biodiversity impact assessment.

We can help develop policy in these areas with NGOs, private businesses and the public sector. We provide technical advice and on-the-ground capacity to implement programmes to solve biodiversity challenges in an innovative way.

We have close links with NGOs and academic institutions to bring state-of-the-art experience to help developers – whether public or private – manage biodiversity responsibly and improve their environmental performance.

Passionate about developing lifestyle and business models based around the Triple Bottom line of People, Planet, Profit we only work with clients who demonstrate a real motivation for quality and leadership in this area.

Key Services include:

Business and Biodiversity

  • Biodiversity surveys and action  plans
  • Corporate biodiversity policy and strategy
  • Provision of biodiversity consultants to cover all aras of biodiversity risk management
  • Biodiversity performance measures and indicators
  • Biodiversity offsets – design and implementation
  • Biodiversity Action Plans – design and implementation
  • Integration of biodiversity issues into Environmental Management Systems
  • Design of biodiversity + carbon + water payments for ecosystem service interventions
  • Climate change implications for corporate biodiversity policy

Biodiversity policy and planning

  • Strategic and technical assessment of biodiversity policies and programmes
  • Strategic Environmental Assessment

Ecology research

  • Conservation planning and biodiversity priority setting
  • Field-based ecological research – forestry, ornithology, mammalogy, entomology
  • Habitat and species inventories and surveys, e.g. marine, forest, farmland, schools.

Leadership, facilitation, cross-sector partnership

  • Developing KPIs for biodiversity.
  • Facilitation of meetings between NGOs and extractive industries
  • Initiation and management of cross-sector partnerships

We intend to bring the highest standards and expertise available in biodiversity consulting and management.