A Representative Sample of all Biodiversity Pattern
Kristal MazeWe need to conserve a representative sample of all biodiversity pattern (representation), ecological processes (persistence), and critical natural capital values.
Good Practice Guidance for Mining and Biodiversity
International Council on Mining and MetalsDebate over the importance of biodiversity is increasing due to greater awareness of the need to protect biodiversity, the increasing presence of larger mining operations in remote, undeveloped locations, and in particular, the significantly increasing demands and pressures on biodiversity through an expanding population.
Biodiversity Offset Cost-Benefit Handbook
BBOPTo be successful, biodiversity offsets should compensate indigenous peoples, local communities and other local stakeholders for any residual impacts of the project on their biodiversity based livelihoods and amenity. They also need to deliver the required conservation gains without making local people worse off, for example due to land and resource use restrictions created by […]
Conservation when nothing stands still: moving targets and biodiversity offsets
Joseph Bull, Kenwyn B Suttle, Navinder J Singh, EJ Milner-Gulland - Imperial College London, Imperial College London, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Imperial College LondonConservation is particularly difficult to implement for moving targets, such as migratory species or landscapes subject to environmental change. traditional conservation strategies involving static tools (eg protected areas that have fixed spatial boundaries) may be ineffective for managing species whose ranges are changing. This shortfall needs to be addressed urgently. More dynamic conservation-based approaches have […]
The Value of the IUCN Red List for Business Decision-Making
Leon Bennun, Eugenie C. Regan, Jeremy Bird, Jan-Willem van Bochove, Vineet Katariya, Suzanne Livingstone, Robin Mitchell, Conrad Savy, Malcolm Starkey, Helen Temple, John D. Pilgrim - The Biodiversity Consultancy, The Biodiversity Consultancy, The Biodiversity Consultancy, The Biodiversity Consultancy, The Biodiversity Consultancy, The Biodiversity Consultancy, The Biodiversity Consultancy, International Finance Corporation, The Biodiversity Consultancy, The Biodiversity Consultancy, The Biodiversity ConsultancyThe IUCN Red List of Threatened Species provides assessments of extinction risk for over 80,000 species. It has become an important tool for conservation and for informing natural resource policy and management more broadly. Over the last 1015 years, the role of the Red List in business decision-making has become increasingly significant. We describe the […]
Draft Native Vegetation Regulation 2004
Government of AustraliaThis Regulation is the Native Vegetation Regulation 2004. In this Regulation: development consent means development consent required by the Act for the cleaning of native vegetation.
Threatened Biodiversity Survey and Assessment: Guidelines for Developments and Activities Working Draft
State of New South Wales, Department of Environment and ConservationThe conservation of threatened plants, animals and their habitats in New South Wales (NSW) is integral to maintaining species diversity. As the diversity of species and their habitats may be adversely affected by developments, it is important that informed decisions regarding the impact of developments can be made. The Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 […]
Federal Agricultural Improvement and Reform Act of 1996
Government of the United StatesIt is the purpose of this title: to authorize the use of binding production flexibility contracts between the United States and agricultural producers to support farming certainty and flexibility while ensuring continued compliance with farm conservation and wetland protection requirements; to make nonrecourse marketing assistance loans and loan deficiency payments available for certain crops; to […]
Credit for Conservation: A Report on Conservation Banking and Mitigation Banking in the USA , with its Applicability to New South Wales
Mark SheahanConservation banking and mitigation banking programs in the USA provide useful examples of the development of market-based systems for habitat, native vegetation, and biodiversity. The US schemes, despite being operated in a range of jurisdictions, share a number of common components this report identifies and describes 10 essential elements of banking schemes.
The Theory and Practice of Transferring Development Rights: The Institutions for Contracting for Biodiversity
Timothy SwansonThis study explains why the theory of transferable development rights, runs into difficulty because of the lack of legal bases and institutions for the transfer. The problem, in brief is that while ownership rights at a domestic level can be “un-bundled” though legal agreements such as leases or land zoning, the same can not be […]