Conservation

Why it matters

Healthy and productive ecosystems are important for the survival of all species. A consensus has emerged on the importance of focusing on biodiversity conservation and habitat and resource management at landscape and seascape levels - across tracts of land and sea that have been designated as protected areas (i.e. Parks), reserves, easements, or other forms of public or private land management regimes.

Many critically important landscapes, or “hotspots,” exist where biodiversity is high, populations large and expanding, natural resource extraction extensive, and public governance and finance challenged. A challenge for conservation is to identify solutions which address biodiversity – and further to design conservation financing strategies that not only generate revenue for conservation but also effectively administer and allocate this funding to community needs as well.

As an important area of conservation focus, functioning landscapes are highly complex operationally. They require adequate planning and resources (human and financial) and sound consideration of costs and involvement of communities and the private sector across a range of issues. As such they can be relatively expensive.

What we do

Starling Resources designs conservation management and finance solutions at site and landscape levels on behalf of private, government, corporate, and multi-lateral investors. Our work focuses on the development of operational and financial (management) frameworks for protected areas (PAs) and systems of PAs, as well as other conservation programs and efforts – considering detailed analysis of options and providing decision-makers, practitioners, governments and funders the information necessary to succeed.