Philosophy

ABR is a leader in the environmental research and consulting community. We seek to use our strengths—including ecological restoration, wildlife and fisheries ecology, and environmental assessment—to promote solid, useful research for today’s environmental problems. We are committed to excellence in scientific research and maintaining our core values. ABR measures its success by a triple bottom line—economic, social, and environmental stability.

ABR is working toward its own sustainability by reducing or mitigating its own environmental impacts, conserving resources, and following a philosophy of responsible corporate growth. We hope to nurture relationships with clients who support and/or practice the concept of sustainability and resource conservation, who seek to reduce their environmental impacts and make efforts to restore ecosystems, who practice social responsibility, and who search for creative and responsible research as key management and conservation tools.

Triple Bottom Line

Economic Viability

ABR services have been used by a great number of clients, and two features of our client base are also indicators of our success. Many are long-term clients who we have worked with us for 10–20 years. Second, each year we add new clients who expand our range of experience in terms of region, expertise, and challenges. Since our founding, we have enjoyed success that allows ABR to record growth while increasing and improving our employee’s benefit packages, including profit- sharing.

Social Responsibility

We support ABR employees who invest their time in humanitarian endeavors, including paying half of their volunteer time up to 8 hrs/month. ABR also donates 7.5% of our annual profits to charities, and we provide hands-on support to groups like Habitat for Humanity. Our retirement account is totally invested in Socially Responsible Investments (SRI). Through our program, Bioshare, we provide for sabbaticals and costs for working with organizations needing extra support. Some of our assistance has contributed to a study of primates in El Salvador, supported the work of wildlife biologists in Papua New Guinea, helped build homes in Madagascar, and taught children in local schools in Costa Rica. ABR’s intern program helps college students who have a strong interest in environmental sciences and who are eager to learn about sustainability in a work environment.

Environmental Stewardship

One of ABR’s corporate challenges is to determine its environmental impacts (or footprints) and reduce them. We’ve measured our carbon footprint, for example, and have tried to mitigate impacts of green house gas emissions by investing in renewable resources, purchasing green tags, supporting employee purchase of hybrid vehicles, and compensating employees for carpooling and using alternative transportation to work. As other role model companies have said “we are on a journey to sustainability” (The Collins’ Companies).