Better offsets for threatened species
Date: 03, Oct, 2017
Author(s):
Martine Maron
David Pannell
Heini Kujala
Zoe Stone
Fleur Maseyk
Megan Evans
Jonathan Rhodes
Sayed Iftekhar
Erica Marshall
Nick Leseberg
Ram Pandit
Hamish Campbell
James Watson
Richard Fuller
Alex Kutt
Pia Lentini
Richard J Hobbs
Nathan Garvey
Dan Rogers
Jeremy Simmonds
| Martine Maron, David Pannell, Heini Kujala, Zoe Stone, Fleur Maseyk, Megan Evans, Jonathan Rhodes, Sayed Iftekhar, Erica Marshall, Nick Leseberg, Ram Pandit, Hamish Campbell, James Watson, Richard Fuller, Alex Kutt, Pia Lentini, Richard J. Hobbs, Nathan Garvey, Dan Rogers , Jeremy Simmonds, Ascelin Gordon, Jessica Walsh
Publisher: TSR Hub
Project 5.1
Biodiversity offsetting is increasingly used as a mechanism to compensate unavoidable development impacts on biodiversity. Yet, major knowledge gaps exist in how best to calculate both development impacts and offset benefits for biodiversity, particularly for poorly known species and communities. This large project will develop and test new guidance and protocols for the most challenging aspects of offsetting impacts on threatened species. In particular, we focus on: 1) robust estimation of the benefit of habitat protection; 2) identifying novel and cost-effective offset approaches for species and communities that commonly trigger offset requirements, but for which offsets are particularly challenging; and 3) exploring approaches that can deliver improved benefits through more strategically targeted and coordinated actions. In combination, this will improve offset benefits to nationally threatened species and ecological communities.
5.1 Better Offsets Factsheet Web4