De l’air plus pur, de l’eau plus saine, le captage de carbone, l’augmentation de la biodiversité, les habitats fauniques, les prairies pour les pollinisateurs : voilà quelques services écosystémiques que génèrent les participants au programme ALUS sur leurs exploitations agricoles et fermes d’élevage.
Considérés également comme les bienfaits de la nature, ou les produits et services écologiques, les services écosystémiques s’avèrent indispensables pour l’écosystème, la collectivité et la planète.
Parcourez la présentation ci-dessous pour voir l’ensemble des systèmes écosystémiques appuyés par ALUS.
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Wetland
Wetlands are created to protect wildlife, but provide many other benefits to society such as storing water, filtering nutrients to purify water, and sequester carbon.
Wildlife habitat
ALUS provides incentive payments to plant and maintain native vegetation cover. This cover can include trees, oak savannah, native prairie grasses and pollinator habitat, all of which will sequester carbon with many additional wildlife and erosion control benefits.
Pollinators
A pollinator hedgerow used to provide food and habitat for bees adjacent to farmer's field. More trees, more bees and more carbon stored in the soil benefit ecosystems and society.
Reforestation
Trees provide wildlife habitat, store carbon, can help control soil erosion and link our forests across the working landscape.
Wildlife-friendly fencing
Deer-friendly fencing allows access to wetland and riparian areas while managing cattle use of fragile areas.
Native grasses
ALUS provides incentive to enhance emergent, riparian and upland nesting areas for wildlife.
Henhouse
Hen House nesting structures provide waterfowl with a safe haven from foraging predators like racoons, skunks and foxes. Research shows Hen Houses usage rates of over 50% and nest successes elevated to 70%.
Clean Air
Farmers and ranchers who steward the land and manage ALUS projects also produce the simplest, yet arguably the most important ecosystem service of them all: copious volumes of clean, fresh air.