Biodiversity offsetting – a fool’s errand? — a comment by James Brown

This is a guest post by James Brown, PhD stu­dent at Queen’s Uni­ver­sity Belfast. This com­ment has pre­vi­ously been pub­lished on QuBio blog of the School of Bio­log­i­cal Sci­ences. It is the expres­sion of the author’s thoughts and expe­ri­ences and … Con­tinue read­ing

New report examines Biodiversity Offsets Case Study from Madagascar

Amrei von Hase, Andrew Cooke, Aris­tide Andri­a­narim­isa, Riv­olala Andri­amparany, Vanessa Mass, Robin Mitchell and Kerry ten Kate Have pub­lished a new report on the BBOP Ambat­ovy min­ing case study in Mada­gas­car enti­tled “Work­ing Towards No Net Loss and Beyond. Ambat­ovy, … Con­tinue read­ing

15 ways how you can contribute to the Biodiversity Offsets Blog

I don’t know why I usu­ally find myself read­ing the likes of those lists and instruc­tions “10 things to know…”, “3 rea­sons for…” or “100 places to visit…”, even though I have seen them so many times before. The rea­son … Con­tinue read­ing

Biodiversity Offsetting Workshop in Hatton (UK) on 22nd September 2014

I have recently found the announce­ment of a Bio­di­ver­sity Off­set­ting Work­shop in Hat­ton, War­wick­shire (UK) on 22nd Sep­tem­ber 2014 and want to share this infor­ma­tion with you. The work­shop is hosted by CIEEM (Char­tered Insti­tute of Ecol­ogy and Envi­ron­men­tal Man­age­ment). … Con­tinue read­ing

New PhD study: “Biodiversity offset markets: current challenges and prospective developments”

A Report on Bio­di­ver­sity Off­set­ting Nice to see another PhD in the bio­di­ver­sity off­sets field – with more analy­ses such as this we will be able to have a bet­ter informed dis­cus­sion! Many thanks Car­los! As the PhD is still “fresh” … Con­tinue read­ing