Partnerships to protect biodiversity
With around 70% of our airport platforms composed of natural environments, preserving biodiversity is one of VINCI Airports’ priorities. To achieve this, VINCI Airports conducts inventories and awareness-raising campaigns throughout its worldwide network of airports, and forges partnerships with various associations. For example, VINCI Airports and the airports in its network have ratified the Buckingham Declaration and joined the United for Wildlife Transport Taskforce, an international partnership to combat species trafficking.
In France, VINCI Airports and the Union Nationale de l’Apiculture Française (UNAF) are partners in the “Bees, guardians of the environment” program. VINCI Airports is also a partner of the Ligue de Protection des Oiseaux (LPO), as at Grenoble airport, which has a diversified fauna at the heart of the airport, and has set up a biodiversity zone (beehives, compost, insect house).
Several other partnerships for biodiversity protection have been established within the network, including at ANA airports in Portugal, as well as at London Gatwick Airport in the United Kingdom, which has been recognized for its biodiversity management with the Wildlife Trusts Biodiversity Benchmark Award.
