A financial instrument designed to offset activities that may damage wildlife in particularly fragile areas, such as rainforests.
In a similar manner to carbon offsets, in habitat banking landowners are encouraged to restore degraded land or protect virgin forest to enhance its conservation values. In return, the landowner is...
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