Research and Conservation

Core to our mission as a company, we strive to be leaders in our field through undertaking research and conservation projects that contribute to increasing our knowledge of the natural environment and supporting efforts to protect, maintain and enhance our natural systems, wildlife habitats, rare species and Species at Risk. We know that healthy natural environment systems are important both for the wildlife that inhabit natural spaces as well as the people that benefit from the ecosystem services provided by our natural environment. NSE staff have experience working with various rare species and Species at Risk including reptiles, amphibians, birds, mammals, insects and plants. Services include:

• developing provincial or federal recovery strategies

• development of standardized survey protocols

• status reports

• Species at Risk inventories

• rare plant inventories

• mark-recapture studies

• road ecology monitoring