Defenders' Experts
Marketplace for Nature Site Selection Criteria
Balancing the need to ensure ecological integrity with the need to offer enough flexibility for landowners and conservation organizations has guided the development of a basic criteria for selecting sites for the Marketplace for Nature.
What is the Marketplace looking for?
1. Projects should conserve high priority habitats that have been identified through a widely-endorsed process based on a scientific assessment.
2. Projects of all sizes should be the best possible additions to a network of high priority conservation areas.
3. Projects should provide benefits above and beyond regulatory requirements and include both the conservation of existing ecological values if they are to be maintained long-term, and improvements associated with restoration activities.
4. Projects should be rated or valued based on their permanence as determined by the duration and security of the commitment to maintain or enhance the ecological values.
5. Projects guided by a management plan that includes monitoring and long-term maintenance.
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The Marketplace for Nature, initiated by Defenders of Wildlife and managed by a consortium of public and private organizations to demonstrate how a voluntary multi-credit ecosystem marketplace will work.
Marketplace for Nature goals include ecological effectiveness, addressing multiple values, rewards for strategic investment and others.
Developing a standard approach to measuring habitat quantity and quality within ecosystem service markets that can be accepted and applied across the U.S. Read more.
What is bundling and stacking and how does it help landowners?
Partners working together to develop rigorous standards for the Marketplace for Nature. See who's involved.
