Using the Biodiversity Intactness Index for your business

What services do we offer?

We offer a wide range of services using the Natural History Museum's Biodiversity Intactness Index (BII) for all types of businesses. Here are just some of the applications of our work:

Data-licensing

  • Utilise the BII data with your company data to reveal biodiversity insights suitable for regulatory disclosure.
  • Utilise the BII data within a consultancy partnership, providing internal biodiversity assessment and a powerful source of revenue generation. 

Bespoke Consultancy and partnership projects

  • Map BII across regions of interest. 
  • Generate reports on the intactness and uniqueness of a region's biodiversity. 
  • Infer how BII has changed over recent years in specific areas. 
  • Project changes in biodiversity under future land use and management scenarios. 
  • Model and project the impacts of land usage and other pressures on biodiversity, considering the entire ecosystem or specific taxonomic groups. 
  • Compare dimensions of biodiversity, such as taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic diversity. 
  • Evaluate the biodiversity impacts of different crops. 
  • Screen policy options to assess their consequences on biodiversity. 
  • Develop goal-seeking scenarios while integrating economic models to achieve biodiversity objectives. 
  • Test the likely impact of specific management decisions aimed at enhancing biodiversity.

Case studies

Businesses are already using the BII for a wide range of services. Here are a couple of examples of our work.

Biodiversity change in the Amazon

A report produced for Federated Hermes.

Evaluating the impact of biodiversity interventions: a pilot study within the Cairngorms National Park

A report produced for EY and abdrn.

Protect, sustain, restore: Why the Amazon matters

A report produced for Federated Hermes Limited.

Nature and financial institutions in Africa

A report prepared for FSD Africa.

View and download the data to see past, current and future biodiversity changes for a particular area.