Canopy builds bridges between corporations, scientists, and communities
to meet the needs of business, wildlife, and society

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Social, environmental, and economic prosperity

Unprecedented opportunity to gain strategic advantage lies at hand for the environmentally sensitive corporation. 

We need not abandon our quality of life or the pursuit of profitable business practices in order to forge ahead responsibly and ethically. A shift in our perspective reveals new possibilities: Rather than viewing concerns about the natural environment as a source of constraints, we can see them as a rich source of inspiration – for business opportunities, competitive differentiation, partnerships, and alliances.

Canopy helps corporations reap the benefits of adopting a comprehensive approach to environmental and wildlife stewardship.

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Canopy's advisory services

Canopy advises corporate executives, board members, and environmental affairs departments on wildlife stewardship, helps formulate environmental strategies, and assists with implementation. We perform the following services:

WILDLIFE STEWARDSHIP 
We create wildlife programs to support a company’s strategic objectives.

ENVIRONMENTAL CITIZENSHIP 
We counsel corporations on strategic use of philanthropy and other socially responsible acts to complement their emerging corporate environmental strategy.

ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS AND EDUCATION 
We develop customized environmental education programs for a company’s board members, managers, and employees, as well as their family members.

HABITAT ADVISORY 
Canopy advises clients on ways to conserve or restore wildlife habitat on company-owned land and on ecologically sustainable building practices.

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Canopy's Nature Programs

Canopy designs nature excursions and programs that embody the environmental stewardship values our corporate partners embrace. Nature Programs bring broader wildlife stewardship initiatives to life and are tied closely with environmental strategy.

FIELD EXPEDITIONS 
Opportunities to join Canopy’s biologists in the field and participate in research or conservation activities. For example, a company may want to develop a program that gives employees the opportunity to learn about tiger or whale ecology and participate in conservation-related research.

EXOTIC RETREATS 
Trips to some of the least-visited regions on earth, combining an intimate retreat atmosphere with unparalleled wildlife-viewing experiences. A corporation may decide, for instance, to hold a retreat in South America so that executives and board members can see firsthand how scientists and local inhabitants are collaborating to protect habitat for howler monkeys.

TEAM-BUILDING PROGRAMS 
Wilderness adventures designed to encourage camaraderie, team effort and growth.

ENRICHMENT PROGRAMS 
Short programs for large groups in semi-wild settings and in-house talks.

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Community Involvement

Canopy creates opportunities whereby companies and other community members can work together to nurture mutually beneficial relationships between humans and the natural world.

WILDLIFE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH VENTURES unite local citizens, schools, business, government, and scientists in multifaceted efforts to find ways for humans and wildlife to live together in harmony. Canopy’s Project CAT in eastern Washington, for example, allows companies to join a project where K–12 students are actively involved in the scientific study of cougars and their environment.

STAKEHOLDER FORUMS bring together corporations and communities in a collaborative quest to find mutually beneficial ways to restore or maintain the health of a local ecosystem or bioregion. 

INTERNATIONAL SPECIES INITIATIVES partner corporations, media, biologists, and local communities in order to generate exposure and funding for priority research and education projects. Our Global Bear Initiative focuses on 15–25 bear projects, which will be publicized through a television series featuring the eight living bear species and the biologists who have devoted their lives to studying them.

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Corporate Environmental Strategy

Canopy supplies the guidance and resources corporations need to shift from piecemeal, ad hoc environmental and wildlife stewardship efforts towards a layered approach that is threaded throughout the company. When companies take this step, they gain: 

• New and more varied strategic opportunities

• Congruence between espoused and actual values

• Heightened employee morale and performance

• New options for branding

• Greater market differentiation

• Increased competitive standing

• Improved stock performance

• Recognition among stakeholders

• An enhanced corporate image

Our people specialize in the fields of business management and strategy, biology, ecology, conservation, sustainable development, valuation strategy, branding, and corporate image management. This team is available in whole or in part to collaborate with selected individuals or departments from initial assessment to strategy implementation. Canopy also calls upon its affiliated wildlife and ecosystem scientists, who are distributed worldwide, to help identify suitable communities, species, and ecosystems for program development and stakeholder and corporate integration.

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Canopy’s Mission

Canopy believes that actions taken to nurture the relationship between human communities and the natural environment can be rewarding economically, socially, and spiritually. Our mission is to foster that relationship, respect the interests of all parties, and turn wildlife stewardship, sustainable business, and community involvement into conventional practice.

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Canopy People

Canopy’s affiliate wildlife specialist network currently consists of sixty biologists from Africa, Asia, Europe, Australia, South America, and North America. Through our affiliates we are able to identify suitable communities, species and ecosystems for program development and stakeholder and corporate integration.

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