Opportunities forBenefiting Biodiversity Conservation
The Energy and Biodiversity Institute
Ango American Biodiversity Offset Case Study – 2009
Case study of the AngloAmerican BBOP pilot biodiversity offset in South Africa. Published in 2009.
The Ecological Component of Environmental Impact Assessment
A Critical Review of British Environmental Statements
S. THOMPSON , J. R. TREWEEK, D. J. THURLINGEnvironmental assessment (EA) of the impacts of development is required under the 1985 European Directive 85/337/EEC, which is implemented in Britain primarily through the 1988 Town and Country Planning (Assessment of Environmental Effects) Regulations. Ecology provides analytical procedures for studying relationships between organisms and their environment and therefore has an obvious role in EA. The […]
The Risks and Opportunities of Translating Terrestrial Biodiversity Offsets to the Marine Realm
Nicole Shumway, James E. M. Watson, Megan I Saunders, Martine MaronBiodiversity compensation policy programs such as offsetting are increasingly being expanded to the marine realm. We reviewed the literature on biodiversity offsets and related compensatory policy to determine where marine offset policies occur. We also identified the most important differences between marine and terrestrial systems that are likely to have implications for how offsetting is […]
Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999: Act No. 91 of 1999 as Amended, Volume 2
Government of AustraliaRecovery plans for listed threatened species and ecological communities and threat abatement plans for key threatening processes bind the Commonwealth and Commonwealth agencies. The Minister must ensure that a recovery plan is in force for each listed threatened species and ecological community.
Lei No 9.985, 18 Julho 2000
Government of Brazil
Federal Guidance on the Use of Off-Site and Out-of-Kind Compensatory Mitigation Under Section 404 of the Clean Water Act
Government of the United StatesThis document provides interagency guidance on the use of off-site and out-of-kind compensatory mitigation undertaken to meet permit requirements under Section 404 of the Clean Water Act (CWA). The permit program relies on compensatory mitigation to offset unavoidable impacts to aquatic systems by replacing aquatic functions lost in association with permitted activities.
DRAFT: The Outcomes Monitoring Framework: Detailed Indicator Descriptions
Elizabeth KennedyHistorically the conservation community has not employed a systematic, consistent framework for measuring the status of conservation targets (species, sites, or landscapes/seascapes) (Balmford et al. 20031; Royal Society 20032). This has impeded our ability to conclusively and quantitatively demonstrate that conservation actions are (1) the right ones, (2) in the right place, and (3) achieving […]
Biodiversity Offsets: Views, Experience, and the Business Case
Kerry ten Kate, Josh Bishop, Ricardo BayonBiodiversity1 offsets are conservation activities intended to compensate for the residual, unavoidable harm to biodiversity caused by development projects. Recent experience with regulatory regimes, such as wetland and conservation banking in the USA, tradable forest conservation obligations in Brazil and habitat compensation requirements in Australia, Canada and the EU, has been supplemented by growing interest […]
BBOP Glossary
2012 Update
BBOPA glossary of terms related to biodiversity offsets and the mitigation hierarchy, with particular reference to the BBOP approach and materials.