Management programmes
Transfer of the biodiversity knowledge and impact assessment through to biodiversity management plans has been identified, in the biodiversity strategy, as a critical step in the development of an effect management programme. In 2005 84 per cent of Rio Tinto operations had implemented active biodiversity management programmes through which they manage potential biodiversity issues.
In 2005, 28 per cent of Rio Tinto's operations had biodiversity management plans that have been formalised through some form of management system and, while most formed part of an EMS, a number of operations had developed specific Biodiversity Action Plans (BAPs). While 57 per cent of operations indicated that biodiversity management was informal, a number of these indicated that they would be, through the implementation of the biodiversity strategy, formalising current and future programmes as either BAPS or as part of the operation’s EMS.
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