Biodiversity Resources
The Role of Non-Timber Forest Products in Poverty Alleviation and Biodiversity Conservation
26 Mar 2008 | Downloads - Publication
Building Biodiversity Business
The challenge of building biodiversity business is not trivial. Biodiversity is still largely neglected by private finance. There is a need to develop new business models and market mechanisms for biodiversity conservation, and to persuade the public and policy makers that biodiversity (or component ecosystem services) can be conserved on a commercial basis. Based on extensive consulatation and analysis, the authors of this new report conclude that there are numerous pro-biodiversity business opportunities that can generate positive financial returns as well as real biodiversity benefits. …
19 Mar 2008 | Downloads - Publication
Guidelines for the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Biodiversity in Tropical Timber Production Forests
| Author(s): | IUCN / ITTO |
| Published: | 2006 |
30 Jun 2006 | Downloads - Publication
Biodiversity Offsets: Views, experience, and the business case
Biodiversity offsets are conservation activities intended to compensate for the residual, unavoidable harm to biodiversity caused by development projects. Recent experience with regulatory regimes, such as wetland and conservation banking in the USA, tradable forest conservation obligations in Brazil and habitat compensation requirements in Australia, Canada and the EU, has been supplemented by growing interest in the potential of voluntary biodiversity offsets. …
01 Jan 2004 | Downloads - Publication
