The government hopes private investors will help save nature. Here's how its scheme could fail

  • Written by: Megan C Evans, Senior Lecturer and ARC DECRA Fellow, UNSW Sydney
The government hopes private investors will help save nature. Here's how its scheme could failSeiichiro/Unsplash

This week’s federal budget reiterated the government’s plan to establish a new scheme for encouraging private investment in conservation, called a biodiversity market (now, rebranded to a “nature repair” market).

A biodiversity market would see landholders granted certificates for restoring or managing...

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