Post by L Roebuck on Jul 8, 2008 7:53:22 GMT -5
Ecosystem services approach boosts investment in conservation
via Environmental Research Web
The ecosystem services approach to habitat conservation assigns a value – both economic and social – to facilities such as food and shelter that an ecosystem can supply to people. It can be highly successful in protecting land that is already exploited rather than pure wilderness. But there’s some concern that it may divert funding from more traditional biodiversity-based conservation projects.
With this in mind, a team from Stanford University, US, and US conservation organization The Nature Conservancy has found that ecosystem service projects attract on average more than four times as much funding as biodiversity projects, through increased corporate sponsorship and their use of a wider variety of finance tools. The researchers found that ecosystem projects expanded opportunities for conservation – they did not draw down limited financial resources for conservation but instead engaged more diverse funders.
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via Environmental Research Web
The ecosystem services approach to habitat conservation assigns a value – both economic and social – to facilities such as food and shelter that an ecosystem can supply to people. It can be highly successful in protecting land that is already exploited rather than pure wilderness. But there’s some concern that it may divert funding from more traditional biodiversity-based conservation projects.
With this in mind, a team from Stanford University, US, and US conservation organization The Nature Conservancy has found that ecosystem service projects attract on average more than four times as much funding as biodiversity projects, through increased corporate sponsorship and their use of a wider variety of finance tools. The researchers found that ecosystem projects expanded opportunities for conservation – they did not draw down limited financial resources for conservation but instead engaged more diverse funders.
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