Find following the link to a video of a presentation on the Biodiversity Offsetting Practice in Western Sydney. The presentation was held by Tom Grosskopf and Derek Steller from the NSW Office of Environment and Heritage. For some broad information … Continue reading
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The Biodiversity Offsets Blog is making the rounds — thanks to the team at Mercados de Medio Ambiente for covering the Biodiversity Offsets Blog today in a blog post via one of our recent articles — the guest post contributed … Continue reading
There’s another BBOP webinar upcoming in two days time from now, i.e. Thursday (or Wednesday evening for the US and related time zones). This time the topic is: “Biodiversity Offsetting Practice — Western Sydney, Australia”. Tom Grosskopf and Derek Steller from … Continue reading
Some time ago, I have announced that the news category that I have created for the Biodiversity Offsets Blog, entitled “Biodiversity Offsets Newsweek”, would be replaced by another tool. Not so much different (same style and structure), this new tool … Continue reading
This is a guest post by Megan Evans, a PhD researcher based at the Fenner School of Environment and Society, at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia. This comment has previously been published on Megan’s Blog. It is the expression of the … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
KATHERINE L. MILLER, JAMES A. TREZISE, STEFAN KRAUS, KIMBERLEY DRIPPS, MEGAN C. EVANS, PHILIP GIBBONS, HUGH P. POSSINGHAM and MARTINE MARON have published a new paper entitled “The development of the Australian environmental offsets policy: from theory to practice” in Environmental Conservation (2015). Read more on the Journal … Continue reading
Friends of the Earth represent some of the strongest critics to Biodiversity Offsets both as a concept and in practice. They have prepared a short briefing note entitled “Case studies of biodiversity offsetting: voices from the ground” including a critical … Continue reading
Jointly owned with Mitsubishi Development Pty Ltd, BHP Billiton Mitsubishi Alliance (BMA) is Australia’s largest coal miner and exporter, and the world’s largest supplier to the sea borne coking coal market. BMA’s mines are located in the coal rich Bowen … Continue reading
I am very happy to announce our first on-the ground biodiversity offset example that is the result of some intense work and exchange. It describes a species offset for the Koala in Queensland (Australia). While we have developed the structure … Continue reading