Joe Bull has published a new paper entitled “Comparing biodiversity offset methodologies. Divergence in securing ‘no net loss’” in Decision Point (No 85, February 2015). You can read the full article on the Journal website (open access). For more information … Continue reading
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The Canadian NGO Ontario Nature has recently released a report entitled “Insights into Biodiversity Offsetting in Ontario”. The report is the outcome of a project on biodiversity offsetting (started in July 2013), which was supported by the Metcalf Foundation. It … Continue reading
This month, a newly developed free, open-source, stand-alone software tool to calculate environmental losses and gains was released. Being part of the work of the Natural Capital Project, OPAL (Offset Portfolio Analyzer and Locator) enables users to estimate the impacts … Continue reading
IUCN has presented the latest report by its Biodiversity Offsets Technical Study Group at the IUCN World Parks Congress (12 - 19 November 2014 in Sydney, Australia). Lead authors Kerry ten Kate and John Pilgrim together with various contributing authors have written more … Continue reading
Jussi Laitila, Atte Moilanen and Federico M. Pouzols have published a new paper on “A method for calculating minimum biodiversity offset multipliers accounting for time discounting, additionality, and permanence” in Methods in Ecology and Evolution. Read more here and find … Continue reading
Another PhD on Biodiversity Offsets was published this year. Joe Bull has prepared his work at Imperial College London, Department of Life Sciences. His work focuses on biodiversity offsets for moving conservation targets. He examines the case of the Saiga Antelope in the … Continue reading
New paper on biodiversity offsets in Biological Conservation A new paper has been published by J. W. Bull, E. J. Milner-Gulland, K. B. Suttle and N. J. Singh in Biological Conservation (Volume 178, October 2014, Pages 2–10): “Comparing biodiversity offset … Continue reading
Mboringong Fideline has started a new discussion in the BBOP NO Net Loss Discussion Group on LinkedIn. The focus is on the different stages of the Mitigation Hierarchy. Hello All, Please can i get some clarification on the transition process … Continue reading