The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) and the ASLA Fund have released a free resource on how to design for biodiversity entitled Biodiversity Primer for Landscape Architects: Essential Knowledge to Inform Meaningful Action. 

Developed by the ASLA Climate & Biodiversity Action Committee (CBAC), the premier offers direction on how to mitigate the biodiversity crisis through design and planning work. 

Kona Gray, ASLA’s president, explains the primer “provides landscape architects with the baseline information needed to take action on the biodiversity crisis – the challenges we need to prioritize; the most effective ways to design solutions with ecologists, biologists, and others; how to measure our impact; and how to steward landscapes into the future”.

The 25-page primer introduced a range of topics, including the state of the biodiversity crisis, global 2030 goals, biodiversity priorities, how to measure impact and how to steward a site for biodiversity. 

A team of CBAC biodiversity experts reviewed and contributed to the resource, including Keith Bowers of Biohabitats, Lisa Casey of StudioOutside and MaFe Gonzalez from BASE Landscape Architecture. 

Access Biodiversity Primer for Landscape Architects here.