Update on New Zealand’s Biodiversity Offsets – from the latest Invercargill Workshop

November 12, 2015 · by misjpmovesthings | in Biodiversity, Conservation Banking, Events, Mitigation Banking, New Zealand, News, Offsetting | tagged Biodiversity Offsetting, Compensatory Mitigation, Conservation, New Zealand, Offsetting, Resource Management Act | 1 Comment

I last wrote about New Zealand’s offsetting market in 2012. Three years later, I’ve come back to a planning workshop led by two of New Zealand’s experts on biodiversity offsetting policy and implementation: Dr. Marie Brown, and Dr. Graham Ussher. I’m keen to know what’s happened recently, and where trends might be headed. Since commencing […]

Still beauty in science, and the Ibis’ Migration.

July 14, 2013 · by misjpmovesthings | in Biology and Science, Endangered Species, Europe, Journalism, Unpublished | tagged Conservation, Conservation area, Conservation biology, Endangered Birds, Endangered species, Europe Conservation, Ibis, Jemma Penelope, Migration | 1 Comment

At a time where it would seem that science seems to offer more problems than solutions – think natural gas fracking, stem cells, genetically modified crops and the Hadron Collider – I want some optimism. And this week there is some such optimistic reason, for me at least, to celebrate what is still possible from […]