In his talk, Pablo outlined the Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA) process to assess project’s impacts on the environment, including biodiversity, a powerful tool to propose mitigation measures when tackling negative impacts. However, these assessments often underestimate the impacts on biodiversity due to lack of continuous biological information covering the whole targeted area. Pablo’s work explored the potential of combining existing biological field-data with satellite images, such as Landsat Satellite images,as a cost-effective way to predict biodiversity patterns in areas far beyond the location of field-data, offering the possibility of reliable continuous biodiversity patterns for EIAs. This innovative biodiversity mapping method allows for properly quantifying a project footprint’s impact on biodiversity and identifying suitable areas for “like-for-like” compensation schemes.