About the Bio­di­ver­sity Off­sets Newsweek

If you are inter­ested in envi­ron­men­tal com­pen­sa­tion and bio­di­ver­sity off­sets, there are cer­tainly good news: there is now a whole bunch of infor­ma­tion from dif­fer­ent sources, loca­tions and view­points pub­licly avail­able (some­thing which wasn’t this easy only a cou­ple of years ago). Now, as has been pointed out (see here) the Bio­di­ver­sity Off­sets Blog aims to com­pile and some­what struc­ture this infor­ma­tion. But there is not only a wealth of sources already out there on the inter­net, but also new sources are con­tin­u­ously being added. I am fol­low­ing and col­lect­ing the news via Scoop.it and cover the most trend­ing ones in posts on the Bio­di­ver­sity Off­sets Blog.
Nev­er­the­less, not all news can be cov­ered (at least not yet) and there­fore the “Bio­di­ver­sity Off­sets Newsweek” will list up the head­lines of the past week, together with the links and PDFs of the arti­cles or news (the lat­ter to pre­vent to loose infor­ma­tion — as we know, that unfor­tu­nately every now and then things are being removed from the internet).

This week: Sep­tem­ber 15–21, 2014

This week (Sep­tem­ber 15–21, 2014) was rel­a­tively calm com­pared to the hus­tle and bus­tle of the past week. How­ever, I have found some inter­est­ing pieces of infor­ma­tion. The first is an arti­cle that draws a crit­i­cal anal­ogy between bio­di­ver­sity off­sets and Jenga tow­ers. And there are some more news from the con­tro­versy on the intor­duc­tion of bio­di­ver­sity off­sets in the UK, namely the “nightin­gales of Lodge Hill” (where a hous­ing devel­op­ment is planned) and Smithy Wood (in which a motor­way ser­vice sta­tion shall be built). Fur­ther on, the teaser “Bio­di­ver­sity off­set­ting can­not com­pen­sate for ‘old growth’ habi­tat loss” by the Euro­pean Com­mis­sion points to a study by Cur­ran, M., Hell­weg, S. and Beck, J. (Is there any empir­i­cal sup­port for bio­di­ver­sity off­set pol­icy? Eco­log­i­cal Appli­ca­tions. 2014, 24(4): 617–632). And don’t miss this week’s car­toon by High Moon.

Crit­i­cal dis­cus­sion on bio­di­ver­sity offsets

Of Jenga Tow­ers and Envi­ron­men­tal Off­sets, Sep­tem­ber 17, 2014, by Vijay Kolin­ji­vadi

Newsweek 15–21 Sep­tem­ber 2014_Of Jenga Tow­ers and Envi­ron­men­tal Offsets

News on the bio­di­ver­sity off­set con­tro­versy in the UK

Cam­paign­ers fight to save 12th-century for­est Smith Wood from pro­posed motor­way ser­vice sta­tion, Sep­tem­ber, 21 2014, by Jamie Merril

Newsweek 15–21 Sep­tem­ber 2014_Campaigners fight to save 12th-century for­est Smith Wood from pro­posed motor­way ser­vice station

Land Secu­ri­ties direc­tor aban­dons attempt to become wildlife trustee, Sep­tem­ber 18, 2014, by James Meikle

Newsweek 15–21 Sep­tem­ber 2014_Land Secu­ri­ties direc­tor aban­dons attempt to become wildlife trustee

Direc­tor of Lodge Hill Devel­oper Land Secu­ri­ties with­draws from becom­ing Lon­don Wildlife Trust trustee, Sep­tem­ber 18, 2014, by Miles King

Newsweek 15–21 Sep­tem­ber 2014_Director of Lodge Hill Devel­oper Land Secu­ri­ties with­draws from becom­ing Lon­don Wildlife Trust trustee

Bio­di­ver­sity Off­set News from Academia

Bio­di­ver­sity off­set­ting can­not com­pen­sate for ‘old growth’ habi­tat loss, Sep­tem­ber 18, 2014, by Euro­pean Commission

Newsweek 15–21 Sep­tem­ber 2014_Biodiversity off­set­ting can­not com­pen­sate for old growth habi­tat loss

Other bio­di­ver­sity off­sets news

Update: Mit­i­ga­tion Solu­tions USA Announces Muddy Boggy Con­ser­va­tion Bank Expan­sion, Sep­tem­ber 16, 2014, by Lisa Bricarell

Newsweek 15–21 Sep­tem­ber 2014_Update_ Mit­i­ga­tion Solu­tions USA Announces Muddy Boggy Con­ser­va­tion Bank Expansion

Palm oil giants announce defor­esta­tion mora­to­rium — effec­tive imme­di­ately, Sep­tem­ber, 20, 2014, by mongabay.com

Newsweek 15–21 Sep­tem­ber 2014_palm-oil-deforestation-moratorium

Pieces keep drop­ping out, Sep­tem­ber 16, 2014, Car­toon of the week by High Moon