Conservation: Stop misuse of biodiversity offsets

Martine Maron (), Ascelin Gordon, Brendan G. Mackey, Hugh P. Possingham and James E. M. Watson
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Martine Maron: Martine Maron is associate professor in environmental management and an Australian Research Council future fellow in the School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Management at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
Ascelin Gordon: Ascelin Gordon is a vice-chancellor's senior research fellow in the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies at RMIT University, Melbourne, Victoria.
Brendan G. Mackey: Brendan G. Mackey is director of the Griffith Climate Change Response Program at Griffith University, Gold Coast, Australia.
Hugh P. Possingham: Hugh P. Possingham is an Australian Research Council laureate fellow at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, and professor of conservation decisions at Imperial College London, UK.
James E. M. Watson: James E. M. Watson is associate professor of environmental management at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, and director of the Science and Research Initiative at the Wildlife Conservation Society.

Nature, 2015, vol. 523, issue 7561, 401-403

Abstract: Governments should not meet existing conservation targets using the compensation that developers pay for damaging biodiversity, say Martine Maron and colleagues.

Date: 2015
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