BBOP Publications Library

Victoria ‘s Native Vegetation Management: A Framework for Action – Summary Brochure 2

The National Land and Water Resources Audit’s ‘Australian Native Vegetation Assessment 2001’ provides an analysis of clearing across Australia. Five of the 85 bioregions (areas with similar characteristics of landscape and native plant and animal types) in Australia have less than 30% of pre-1750 native vegetation cover remaining. Four of these five bioregions are found […]

Opportunities forBenefiting Biodiversity Conservation

The use of market-based instruments for biodiversity protection – Habitat Banking case studies

Standard on Biodiversity Offsets

This Standard on Biodiversity Offsets has been prepared by the Business and Biodiversity Offsets Programme (BBOP) to help auditors, developers, conservation groups, communities, governments and financial institutions that wish to assess biodiversity offsets against the BBOP Principles, Criteria and Indicators.

BBOP Vision, Mission, Goals, Strategy, Plan

The Business and Biodiversity Offsets Programme (BBOP): planning policies and projects to achieve a net gain of biodiversity BBOP Vision, Mission, Goals, Strategy, Plan Approved by the BBOP Advisory Group and adopted by the Executive Committee on 20 January 2016

Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999: Act No. 91 of 1999 as Amended, Volume 2

Recovery plans for listed threatened species and ecological communities and threat abatement plans for key threatening processes bind the Commonwealth and Commonwealth agencies. The Minister must ensure that a recovery plan is in force for each listed threatened species and ecological community.

Lei No 9.985, 18 Julho 2000

Federal Guidance on the Use of Off-Site and Out-of-Kind Compensatory Mitigation Under Section 404 of the Clean Water Act

This document provides interagency guidance on the use of off-site and out-of-kind compensatory mitigation undertaken to meet permit requirements under Section 404 of the Clean Water Act (CWA). The permit program relies on compensatory mitigation to offset unavoidable impacts to aquatic systems by replacing aquatic functions lost in association with permitted activities.

DRAFT: The Outcomes Monitoring Framework: Detailed Indicator Descriptions

Historically the conservation community has not employed a systematic, consistent framework for measuring the status of conservation targets (species, sites, or landscapes/seascapes) (Balmford et al. 20031; Royal Society 20032). This has impeded our ability to conclusively and quantitatively demonstrate that conservation actions are (1) the right ones, (2) in the right place, and (3) achieving […]

Ango American Biodiversity Offset Case Study – 2009

Case study of the AngloAmerican BBOP pilot biodiversity offset in South Africa. Published in 2009.