Red eyed tree frog (Agalychnis callidryas),
an indicator species for climatic change
Mott MacDonald works in some of the most complex environmental
systems on the planet, studying their diversity, sensitivity and
vulnerability to the pressures of development.
Concerned organisations often call in our environmental experts to
assist them in long-term conservation – our portfolio ranges from
rainforests threatened by
palm
oil development in Indonesia or
quarrying in Belize to
Pakistan’s Nara wildlife Reserve
encroached on by oil development, India’s Pench tiger reserve and
the UK’s Stonehenge World Heritage Site.
The aquatic environment is particularly sensitive to harm caused by
development outstripping regulatory control. Through our work for
water companies in the UK, we are now leaders in relating changes
in water quality and abstraction to actual impacts on wetlands and
surface water ecology in accordance with the EU Water Framework,
Birds and Habitats Directives.
Our preferred choice is to conserve resources by design. We seek to
‘design out’ the consumption of energy and resources in low-energy
buildings and to minimise the production of waste in construction.
We carry out energy audits of property and advise on carbon
financing. Our work on the
Ecos
centre in Northern Ireland is a prime example of what we can
achieve in minimising resource consumption by good design.
With global climate change now appearing unavoidable, bringing
significant impacts on resources, specialists at Mott MacDonald
have been providing strategic advice to water companies on the
likelihood of reductions in water resources, and to local
authorities and environmental regulators on the management and
mitigation of increased flooding risks and their consequences.
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