Environmental impact
Since 1970, wild vertebrate populations have declined by 73%. Since the dawn of agriculture, terrestrial plant biomass has been cut in half. Today, 41% of amphibian species, 45% of coral species, and 38% of tree species are threatened with extinction. This erosion of life is not merely an ecological crisis: it is a systemic risk to our economies, whose activities all depend on the stability of ecosystems. Alkïos supports public and private stakeholders in integrating biodiversity at every stage of their spatial planning projects: site selection, ecological assessment, impact mitigation, compensation, long-term monitoring. Its 126 naturalists, botanists and ecologists, spread across 13 offices in France, are working to ensure that ecological engineering is no longer a last-minute requirement, but rather a design discipline serving regions that are resilient, sustainable, and thriving.
The regulatory framework for biodiversity has been significantly strengthened, but its implementation remains largely inadequate due to a lack of stakeholders capable of translating it into operational practices at the local level. Alkïos is one of the few organizations capable of doing so: deeply rooted in the local community for 25 years, recognized for the quality of its studies, and led by executives who view the connection between people and their territories as the backbone of an ambitious consolidation project. It is this combination of rare expertise, deep local roots, and clear vision that convinced us.
