This article is from March this year but worth revisiting: But Dr Philip Gibbons, biodiversity conservation researcher at the Australian National University, who has advised two Australian state governments and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, has told the Guardian that deforestation had increased in one state after offsetting and that Australia does not yet know if the policy has been successful. In email correspondence, Gibbons said: I am very disappointed with the gap between the principles of biodiversity offsetting and practice. The science indicates that it is not feasible in the majority of circumstances to destroy biodiversity at site A and simply reinstate it at site B. Thus, to achieve no net loss of biodiversity in Australia, we must be prepared to constrain development to those sites where biodiversity can genuinely be offset – which means reducing the area available for development. Governments in Australia are reluctant to do this.
Posted on: Mon, 29 Dec 2014 23:16:31 +0000
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