FaunaFloraHabitat

FaunaFloraHabitat is a holistic framework for designing and managing ecosystems that integrate fauna and flora to enhance biodiversity, ecosystem services, and resilience. The approach treats animal life and plant life as interconnected components of a single habitat, rather than as separate targets of conservation.

Core principles include landscape-scale planning, habitat heterogeneity, and the use of native species. Designs emphasize structural diversity—varying ground cover, vertical layering, water features, and shelter—that support feeding, breeding, and migration. The framework also prioritizes functioning food webs, pollination networks, seed dispersal, and pest regulation.

Practices often involve restoration ecology, agroforestry, green corridors, and the creation of microhabitats such as fallen logs, rock piles, hedgerows, and wetlands. Management plans integrate soil, water, fire, and climate considerations, and emphasize long-term monitoring and adaptive management.

Applications span urban parks, nature reserves, agricultural landscapes, green roofs, botanical gardens, and rehabilitation projects. It is used to inform zoning, planting schemes, irrigation, and invasive species control, with an emphasis on resilience to extreme weather and habitat fragmentation.

Limitations include the need for long timeframes to establish complex interactions, resource constraints, and site-specific variability. Success depends on local context, public engagement, and coordinated governance among landowners, managers, and researchers.