Defenders' Experts
Private Incentive Mechanisms
Defenders participates in project implementation and research in the field of private market incentives. Currently, these private market incentives include an ecotourism activity for red wolf conservation in North Carolina, and eco-labeling project for restoration of native habitats in Wisconsin, and investigations into the use of markets for providing ecosystem services.
Ecotourism
Eco-tourism ventures are implemented throughout the United States and internationally as a means of encouraging biodiversity conservation and economic development.
Eco-tourism ventures are implemented throughout the United States and internationally as a means of encouraging biodiversity conservation and economic development.
Eco-labeling
Defenders supports eco-labeling efforts linked to sustainable agriculture as another market-based incentive for encouraging biodiversity conservation.
Defenders supports eco-labeling efforts linked to sustainable agriculture as another market-based incentive for encouraging biodiversity conservation.
Ecosystem Service Payments
Defenders staff investigating the potential for employing payments for ecosystem services as an additional incentive mechanism.
Defenders staff investigating the potential for employing payments for ecosystem services as an additional incentive mechanism.
