Commitment to Biodiversity
SummaryEntergy’s approach to protecting and creating biodiversity benefits is guided by our Environmental
Vision Statement, detailed in our Environmental Management System Policy and Avian and Wildlife
Protection Standard. Entergy endeavors to support biodiversity through the adoption andimplementation of protective corporate policies and by investing in conservation projects andenvironmental initiatives that conserve biodiversity and local ecosystems and through restoration of
wetlands and other important biodiversity habitats.
Introduction
Our Environmental Vision Statement guides us to develop and conduct business in a responsible,
environmentally sustainable manner. It states that we will meet, but preferably exceed, environmental
legal requirements and minimize and manage environmental impacts. Above all, we will strive to be agood steward of the land, wildlife, and natural resources in our care.
As a company, this means we maintain, enhance or conserve biodiversity on the land under our care.
We strive to eliminate negative impacts from our operations on biodiversity and promote a positive
impact where possible.
Entergy applies a mitigation hierarchy when operating in all areas, regardless of status.1 Our approach isthree-fold – managing our operations’ impacts by working to comply with local, state and federal
biodiversity regulations (maintaining biodiversity), using best biodiversity management practices whenpracticable (exceeding minimum compliance) and investing in conservation projects that aim to create
biodiversity benefits.
ApproachEntergy’s businesses throughout the United States have a goal to comply fully with all environmental
regulations including those that govern wildlife conservation. Our management policy, as outlined in
our Avian and Wildlife Protection Standard, states:
All of Entergy’s business functions will evaluate their impact on all wildlife as required by local,
state, and federal law and will take measures, as required by law, to minimize and/or eliminate
this impact. For business functions operating under a Safety, Health and Environmental
Management System (SHEMS), biodiversity and wildlife impacts must be addressed as a part of
the risk assessment requirement of the system.
Entergy strives to incorporate this policy in all aspects of our business.

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Entergy does not operate in World Heritage areas or IUCN Category I-IV protected areas.

Key environmental risks, including threats and impacts to biodiversity, are identified as part of theinvestment approval and permitting process; projects are required to avoid, minimize or mitigate
biodiversity-related risks as needed to complete construction, commissioning and operation. Eachbusiness function’s environmental leadership team (power generation, utility operations, nuclear) is
expected to work with internal project managers to ensure issues are managed appropriately. We strive
to ensure that biodiversity-related impact assessments are performed and requirements implemented
during applicable project planning, construction, and operations. Major capital projects and permit
renewals are re-assessed for their impacts on biodiversity. Examples of these assessments include those
conducted at our Waterford 3 and River Bend Station nuclear facilities.
Annual audits are conducted to ensure adherence to our management policy. The entire Safety Healthand Environmental Management System is periodically audited by a third-party, including aspects of thestandard related to biodiversity protection. These audits occur at the facility or site level, the business
function level, and the corporate level. Entergy typically conducts over 30 site-level external audits of its
Safety Health and Environmental Management System annually.
We avoid or minimize operating in areas of state or national importance to biodiversity where possible,
and mitigate and offset operations where it is not possible using the mitigation hierarchy strategy for all
new construction projects. Baseline surveys and protection measures are typically incorporated at thestart of any new planning, site development, or new construction project, and we frequently work
closely with federal and state wildlife officials before and during construction and operations.
Examples of Entergy’s use of its mitigation hierarchy of avoiding, minimizing, and restoring or offsetting
biodiversity include:
Avoiding:
Through surveying efforts and consultations with agencies such as the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service(USFWS), Entergy strives to avoid biodiversity-related impacts. A past example of such avoidance can beseen in the rerouting of a line around eagle-nesting sites during the construction of a transmission line
project located in Mississippi. The proposed line route was changed twice to prevent potential adverse
effects to local eagle populations.
Another example of avoidance of biodiversity-related impacts is avoiding disturbance of a wetland andnature preserve through spill control planning. Substation reconstruction was occurring in the Boy
Scouts Wood Sanctuary in High Island, Texas. This nature preserve in Bolivar Peninsula is maintained by
the Houston Audubon Society and contains 60 acres of woods, coastal prairie, and wetlands. The site ishome to more than 300 bird species. Construction of sized containment under the oil-filled equipmentin the substation ensured that no oil would be discharged into the preserve in the event of an oil spill.
Minimizing:
Entergy minimizes disturbance to vulnerable species in our vegetation management activities to theextent practicable. Near Conroe, Texas, Entergy manages distribution lines and rights-of-way near the
W.G. Jones State Forest, which contains a management area for a listed endangered species, the Red
Cockaded Woodpecker. Entergy’s environmental and vegetation management staff routinely confer
with park rangers to ensure Entergy’s activities are not disturbing the birds during their breeding andnesting season.

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Entergy strives to minimize disturbance to sensitive ecosystems in our construction activities. In
southern Louisiana, we used helicopters to bring in supplies to build transmission lines and to avoid
unnecessary impacts to the local wetlands. In Arkansas, Entergy has created a Shoreline Management
Plan (SMP) for its hydroelectric facilities to manage the resources and uses of the property shorelines.
SMPs aim for net environmental and social benefits and were developed in close collaboration with local
stakeholders and recreational users of the lakes and regulatory agencies.
Entergy actively manages lakes Catherine and Hamilton, two reservoirs created from the CarpenterRemmel hydroelectric project. The first dam, Remmel Dam, was built in 1924. Carpenter Dam followed
in 1931. The lakes are managed according to our FERC-approved Shoreline Management Plan, and indoing so, a net positive change has been created in the lakes’ biodiversity. We work closely with thestate wildlife agency Arkansas Game and Fish Commission (AGFC) to maintain healthy fish populations.
Some of our measures include keeping the water levels steady during spawning season and facilitating
egg harvesting by AFGC to maintain lake stock and contribute to other state lake stocks. Aquatic habitatis protected by preserving the natural lakebed and discouraging invasive aquatic vegetation. To
preserve the natural habitat, plans are implemented to minimize or prevent disturbance of sensitive fish
spawning and nursery areas, wetlands, and natural rock shorelines. Entergy works with the local
stormwater departments to limit runoff into the lakes and encourage the use of best management
practices to limit runoff from neighboring areas. Invasive vegetation is discouraged by drawing down
during the winter and using sterile grass carp as our primary control measures. To enhance the aquatic
habitat, Entergy has worked with AGFC to introduce more fish habitat structures to provide more coverand shelter for juvenile and adult fish.
Entergy has also worked to enhance terrestrial habitat on several uninhabited islands within the lakes,
including Electric and Loli’s Islands. Electric Island was bequeathed to the Nature Conservancy in the
1980s, and its 118 acres is managed as a nature preserve. Loli’s Island was created in 2018 and 2019 in
consultation with the Army Corps of Engineers and was planted with native vegetation to create bird
habitat.
Another example of minimizing disturbance to sensitive species is our recent work in the Sam Houston
Forest. Recently, Entergy ensured that red cockaded woodpecker nests were not disturbed near ourconstruction there. Coordinating with the U.S. Forest and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, construction
was planned to avoid the endangered birds’ breeding and nesting season in 2020. The avoidance of thenesting season and potential take of the species is built into our 30-year easement permit.
Entergy also strives to minimize disturbance of other protected species, including the gopher tortoise.
We confer with the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries to identify rights-of-ways that are in
the tortoise habitat. When a species is listed, the Entergy operations and maintenance departments are
educated on how to determine habitat and to avoid disturbance. Maintenance crews are taught what a
tortoise and its burrows look like so they can avoid disturbance of their habitat. Similarly, when theLouisiana pine snake was listed recently, the operations department were made aware of the snake’s
habitat. They will engage with the environmental department and the local wildlife agency to ensure
avoidance of the species.
Restoring or Offsetting:Due to the nature of our business, providing safe, affordable, and reliable power, some biodiversity
impacts cannot be avoided. In these cases, we work toward mitigating our impact as appropriate. We
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activities in sensitive areas such as wetlands were mitigated and offset with the creation or preservationof wetlands in the same watershed as our project activities.
As part of our avian compliance, we’ve retrofitted power poles involved in avian incidents to make themmore avian-friendly and consistent with our avian standards for new construction. More discussion of
our Avian Protection Plan is found in the next section.
Beyond Compliance and Creating Ecological Benefits
Entergy further strives to support biodiversity through employee volunteerism and corporate
contributions from the Entergy Charitable Foundation and the Entergy Environmental Initiatives Fund.
We raise awareness and share lessons learned across Entergy’s businesses through a Biodiversity Peer
Group that meets quarterly. The group examines biodiversity-related legislation, regulation and issues
at all levels of government that impact or are impacted by Entergy’s operations, to provide a forum formembers to discuss these issues and to provide a vehicle for development and coordination of pathforward strategies. The group is also charged with identifying and implementing programs to support
biodiversity and to promote awareness and educate employees regarding the advantages of creatingthese benefits.
We also foster biodiversity awareness among our employees. For example, we encourage employees tohumanely remove beehives by partnering with local beekeepers when possible. We conducted amilkweed initiative to encourage employees to grow milkweed in their backyard gardens to help themonarch butterfly. Our employees participate and volunteer in several Earth Day events annually. For
example, employees volunteer at Audubon Nature Institute's Party for the Planet, which Entergy
sponsors.
Avian Protection Plan
Entergy goes above and beyond compliance with the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, the Bald and Golden
Eagle Protection Act, and the Endangered Species Act to protect avian resources. We are an active
member of the Avian Power Line Interaction Committee (APLIC). Using APLIC’s Avian Protection Plan
Guidelines and its Suggested Practices for Avian Protection on Power Lines: The State of the Art in 2006,
we devised and implemented our company Avian Protection Plan (APP) in 2011. An APP is a utilityspecific document that delineates a program designed to reduce the avian risks resulting from avian
interactions with electric facilities.
Some of the provisions of our plan include retrofitting or modifying power poles and lines to prevent
avian-caused outages, constructing new facilities in accordance with Entergy’s APP standards and APLIC
guidelines, reporting avian mortalities to USFWS, and participating with public and private organizationsin programs and research.
A recent example of a public avian program includes our work with Wildlife Mississippi to erect an eagle
nesting structure in and provide additional financial support for the Fannye Cook Natural Area along thePearl River in Flowood, Mississippi, near Jackson. This is expected to be one of the largest preserved
urban natural areas of its type in the United States – nearly three times the size of New York’s Central
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Another example of avian protection program helping eagles was our work to keep eagle fledglings safearound our powerlines in Metairie, Louisiana. An eagle pair decided to make a nest in an urbanneighborhood, so at the behest of neighborhood representatives, Entergy reduced the risk ofelectrocution and collision with the nearby powerlines. Pole conductors were covered to prevent
electrocution, and diverters were added to the line to prevent collision. The eagles successfully raised
young in 2019 and 2020.
Entergy’s Climate Leadership Impact Supports Biodiversity
Climate change is emerging as one of the top threats to our ecosystem around the globe. This impact
could have stark consequences on the quality of biodiversity in the future. Since 2001, Entergy has beena recognized leader in addressing climate change impacts by operating under voluntary commitments tostabilize our CO2 emissions as part of our efforts to be environmentally responsible. Our initialcommitment was to maintain CO2 emissions from Entergy-owned power plants and controllable powerpurchases through 2010 at 20 percent below year 2000 levels. Entergy extended this commitment
through 2020, which it ultimately outperformed by approximately 8% both cumulatively and on anannual basis. In 2019, Entergy announced a 2030 climate goal to reduce our CO2 emission rate by halfwhat it was in 2000 In 2020, Entergy announced a commitment to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas
emissions by 2050.
Stewardship through External Partnership
Not only do we commit to conserving biodiversity in our operations, we also work with external
partnerships and through corporate investment and philanthropy continually to enhance importantbiodiversity areas and habitats.
Entergy invests in projects that support biodiversity through corporate community investment and thecompany’s Environmental Initiatives Fund. Since 2001, Entergy’s EIF has supported projects bycontributing approximately $41 million in shareholder dollars to conservation groups as external
partners. These projects aim for a positive impact in habitat, water quality and purification, and climate
through coastal and wetlands restoration in the four states served by the utility. Partners have included
The Nature Conservancy, The Audubon Society, Arbor Day Foundation, The Conservation Fund, Ducks
Unlimited, and Restore the Earth. A history of environmental improvement projects funded by Entergy’s
Environmental Initiatives Fund is available here.

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Entergy Partnerships Create Red River National Wildlife Refuge
Tensas National Wildlife Refuge Reforestation ProjectEntergy Grants $150,000 to Ducks Unlimited to Restore Louisiana Wetlands, Restore
America’s Estuaries, Rebuild Louisiana Wetlands, Restore Wetlands in Greater New
Orleans Area
Arkansas Carbon Offset Project in National Wildlife Refuges
Grand Isle back mangrove and Coastal Bayou Segnette; Tierra Resources Louisiana
Wetlands Carbon Sequestration Project
Lower Cache River Restoration in Arkansas, New White County Facility Helps Return
Injured Eagles to the Wild; Krebs LaSalle Environmental LLC Wetlands Mitigation Bank
America’s WETLAND Foundation; Isle de Jean Charles Planting; Equilibrium – Entergy Park,
Hot Springs
National Audubon Society: Restoring Forests of the Lower Mississippi Valley; Restore
America’s Estuaries: Shipe Woods Shoreline Stabilization ProjectEntergy Awards $500K Grant to the Nature Conservancy, Chef Menteur Pass Wetland
Restoration
Entergy Arkansas Native Species and Vegetation Management Project, Tierra Resources
Commercialization Phase II Project
Development of promotional video of municipal wastewater wetlands restoration
partnership in Luling, Louisiana with Tierra Resources
Tierra Resources – Aerial planting of black mangrove for wetlands restorations; Coastal
Conservation Association of Louisiana – Floating Island Project on La-1 in Leeville,
Louisiana; Mississippi Wildlife Rehabilitations Inc. – North Mississippi Outdoor Classroom
Conservation Pavilion
Rainforest Alliance and Terra Carbon – monitoring of Lower Mississippi Value reforestation
project (~2800 acres); Americas Wetland Foundation – Lake Salvador Shoreline
Restoration; The Conservation Fund – Trinity River National Wildlife Refuge; Girl Scouts of
San Jacinto Council – Camp Misty Meadows Tree Planting and Wildlife Restoration Project;
Ducks Unlimited – White River National Wildlife Refuge Enhancement; Central Arkansas
Water – Native pollinator habitat
The Nature Conservancy – to conserve 18,000 acres of bottomland hardwood, The Roy E.
Larson Sandyland Sanctuary and the Saline River; Restore the Earth – Point-aux-Chenes
restoration of 200 acres of forest marsh; Coastal Conservation Association to establish afloating island
Ducks Unlimited – to increase surface water use over groundwater on agricultural lands;
Restore the Earth – Bayou Terrebonne Freshwater Diversion Project; The Woodlands
Conservancy – seeds to saplings program
Arbor Day Foundation – Energy Savings tree program; Houston Audubon Society – Coastal
Natives Nursery; Restore the Earth – Maurepas Land Bridge reforestation
Houston Audubon Society - habitat reforestation at Damuth Bird Sanctuary; Restore theEarth – Bayou Terrebonne Freshwater Diversion Phase II

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Summaries of Select Partnerships and Biodiversity Benefit Goals
Partner: Tierra ResourcesEntergy has partnered with Tierra Resources for a number of years to help restore and preserve
Louisiana’s wetlands. In 2009, Entergy supported their Carbon Sequestration Project. In 2016, Entergy
helped fund air-seeding of approximately 100,000 propagules over 22 acres of coastal Louisiana. In
2017, seeding was expanded to more acreage and carbon credits from this restoration were verified.
Partner: The Conservation FundEntergy and The Conservation Fund restored 100 acres of wildlife habitat in Trinity River National
Wildlife Refuge near Houston, Texas. Restoration supports abundant populations of bald eagles, whitetailed deer, alligators, turtles, river otters and a variety of waterfowl. This habitat is also used by neo tropical birds during the migration and nesting seasons.
Partner: The Nature Conservancy FundEntergy has donated to The Nature Conservancy through the Environmental Initiatives Fund to sponsor
several projects within states in our service territory.
Arkansas: TNC is using Entergy funding to restore 500 acres of bottomland hardwood forest.
Restoring these forests create wildlife habitat, sequester carbon, and reduce harmful sedimentand nutrients entering the Cache and White rivers. In 2018, Entergy provided funds to help
restore the Saline River.
Mississippi: Entergy’s grant helped complete restoration of 3,500 acres of critical wetland andwildlife habitat at Mathews Brake National Wildlife Refuge, an iconic natural landmark in theheart of the Mississippi Delta.
Texas: TNC has used the EIF grant to support restoration and management of forest habitats at
the Roy E. Larsen Sandyland Sanctuary, including upland and wetland longleaf pine savannas,
longleaf pine woodlands, American Beech-Southern Magnolia Slope Forest, Bottomland
Hardwoods, and Cypress-Tupelo Swamp. Funding supported the planting of 70,000 seedlings
and restoration of 60 acres of longleaf pine forest.
Louisiana: Funding from Entergy has enabled TNC to continue efforts on one of the largest
floodplain reconnection projects in North America. In the 135-acre restoration of Mollicy Bayou
85,000 trees have been planted. Entergy also funded habitat restoration on Grand Isle, LA.

Partner: Arbor Day Foundation
Entergy has partnered with Arbor Day Foundation to give away over 4,700 trees to homeowners to help
filter the air and water and create wildlife habitat within urban communities.

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Sustainability
Entergy’s leadership in sustainability and environmental stewardship has been a hallmark of who we arefor nearly two decades. In 2002, Entergy’s board of directors adopted a visionary sustainability andenvironmental statement to “develop and conduct our business in a responsible manner that isenvironmentally, socially, and economically sustainable.”
We see environmental stewardship not as a choice, but as a responsibility and an opportunity.
Protecting the rich biodiversity and abundant natural resources of our region is a priority.
In addition, our environmental strategy and our business strategy are inextricably linked. We work with
our stakeholders to identify needs and opportunities and seek partnerships that lead to positive
outcomes.
Leadership in sustainability and environmental responsibility is a critical party of our future too. In 2018,
Entergy created a sustainability organization to establish our sustainability mission and manage oursustainability strategy. Entergy’s sustainability mission is to create sustainable value for our customers,
employees, owners, and the communities we serve through the use of sustainable business practices
that integrate environmental, social, and economic objectives and concerns. Protecting the richbiodiversity of our region is a key initiative of Entergy’s sustainability strategy.
Conclusion
Through compliance with local, state, and federal regulations, incorporating best management practices
and promoting stewardship through public partnerships, Entergy is committed to maintaining,enhancing and conserving biodiversity and sustainability in the areas we serve.

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