About EWCI
The Energy Wildlife Conservation Initiative (EWCI) is a collaborative partnership focused on delivering durable, adaptable solutions to today’s pressing energy and conservation challenges. The initiative helps ensure the safe development and operation of U.S. energy infrastructure while also advancing habitat management and other efforts supporting the recovery of at-risk species.
Why it matters
Energy Security
- Reliable, affordable, and diversified energy is vital to American life. Increasing regulatory certainty for the energy industry by fostering approaches that support predictable, durable and efficient regulatory pathways.
Conservation Urgency
- Conservation is urgently needed through habitat management, monitoring, and other related activities that support species and their habitat. This can incentivize ‘proactive’ conservation to help recover listed species, and help keep common species common.
New Approaches Are Needed
- Proactive and open collaboration will lead to better public and conservation outcomes by establishing relationships and trust between involved parties.
How it works
This initiative intends to create durable habitat management and other conservation solutions through collaborative efforts, joint research and innovation, and leveraging resources.
Collaborative Tools
- Creative application of conservation mechanisms: partnership agreements, habitat conservation plans, conservation benefit agreements, and other tools.
Joint Research & Innovation
- Advancing leading practices and technologies with evidence of success.
- Promoting data and resource sharing to inform action.
Resource Leveraging
- Combining industry commitments with federal, state, and private investments.
- Building capacity within industry and conservation communities to ensure lasting engagement and commitments.
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Resources
This initiative is led cooperatively by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, American Petroleum Institute, Electric Power Research Institute, and University of Illinois Chicago’s Rights-of-Way as Habitat Working Group.