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News Release from: Marley Eternit
Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
Team on 01 December 2004
Eternit Meet Professor David Bellamy.
A biodiversity management scheme run by Eternit Building Materials has taken centre stage with TV presenter and world-famous naturalist Prof David Bellamy.
The Professor, who combines writing books and writing and presenting hundreds of TV programmes with his role as president of the Wildlife Trusts Partnership, was keynote speaker at a business and biodiversity seminar held by Staffordshire Biodiversity Partnership and Staffordshire Wildlife Trust Chartered engineer Peter Tomlinson, who is health, safety and project manager for Eternit Building Materials' clay tiles division, which is a trust member, spoke later on how businesses with a large land ownership can play a part in biodiversity stewardship
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 22 Jul 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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Peter helped the company win ISO 14001 - the international standard for Environmental Management Systems - for the second of its Staffordshire factories, then developed a method for identifying and evaluating the habitats and wildlife species on the company's land as part of his thesis for an MSc in Environmental Management for Business.
The results of a study he commissioned by the Staffordshire Wildlife Trust were used to draw up a biodiversity asset register that the company is using to measure the effect of its operations on wildlife that included water voles and great crested newts.
"The old adage 'If you can't measure it you can't manage it' holds true for biodiversity as with any key indicator in business performance," he told delegates.
"We are due to repeat the survey work in 2006 and see the results of our initiatives but also to check the impact development has had on biodiversity. Request free introductory details about products from Marley Eternit ...
Hopefully there will be an overall positive effect.".
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