Is wildlife to blame for your project not being viable?

Wildlife is to blame for my project not being viable, I'm sure you've said that to yourself on occasion. It's not entirely true, those species were there before your project, but they can be the cause of making your this unfeasible if you don't select your site properly. We already told you about it in our post Don't forget your environmental feasibility study where we offered you the opportunity to carry out your environmental analysis completely free of charge, but we once again remind you of some issues.

Why is wildlife to blame for my project not being viable?

The answer is easy, because the wildlife was there and it's probably not the best place for your project. But how can I know if an area is appropriate without spending a lot of money on a previous study on each alternative I'm considering?

There are a few ways. In Environmental Ideas we have been doing this work for years thanks to our own tool that we affectionately call”GIS Bones” and that in recent months we have improved to include all the provinces of our country.

This application uses existing information and cartography, both its own and official, to obtain a global idea of the vertebrate taxa potentially present in a given project area and thus calculate the relevance of the area for all fauna (areas of importance of fauna)

The solutions to make your project viable

First of all you must do the prior environmental feasibility analysis,. This analysis will tell you if your area is viable or not and to what degree, because many times the areas are not “black or white”.

If the land is your property or the resource you are looking for is located there and only there, we recommend that before starting with the investment, you carry out an exhaustive field study. We recommend an annual cycle study to avoid surprises and to provide strength to your decision if it was the right one.

As a last step, all the data obtained in the annual fauna study will be incorporated into the environmental impact study and the environmental impacts will be analyzed to determine their compatibility (or not) and, where appropriate, the establishment of preventive, corrective and compensatory measures for the project.

At Ideas MedioAmbiental we can learn about the importance of vertebrates in each study area to reduce previous efforts and select the least relevant faunistic areas; reducing impacts and saving time and money.