{"id":213570,"date":"2024-03-15T04:46:01","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T04:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/15\/why-biodiversity-offsetting-is-a-contentious-issue-in-conservation\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:20:36","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:20:36","slug":"why-biodiversity-offsetting-is-a-contentious-issue-in-conservation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/15\/why-biodiversity-offsetting-is-a-contentious-issue-in-conservation\/","title":{"rendered":"Why biodiversity offsetting is a contentious issue in conservation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"article-image-inline ArticleImage\" data-method=\"caption-shortcode\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImage__Wrapper\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/11111845\/SEI_194797472.jpg?width=1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/11111845\/SEI_194797472.jpg?width=100 100w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/11111845\/SEI_194797472.jpg?width=200 200w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/11111845\/SEI_194797472.jpg?width=249 249w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/11111845\/SEI_194797472.jpg?width=300 300w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/11111845\/SEI_194797472.jpg?width=400 400w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/11111845\/SEI_194797472.jpg?width=500 500w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/11111845\/SEI_194797472.jpg?width=600 600w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/11111845\/SEI_194797472.jpg?width=700 700w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/11111845\/SEI_194797472.jpg?width=800 800w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/11111845\/SEI_194797472.jpg?width=900 900w\" class=\"image size-full wp-image-2421597 ReplaceImageLazyload\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1130px) 900px, (min-width: 1025px) 900, (min-width: 768px) calc(100vw - 30px), calc(100vw - 30px)\" alt=\"Sand Martin Wood in Faugh near Carlisle, Cumbria, UK, was acquired by the carbon offset company co2balance in September 2006 It has been planted with a broad mix of native trees over 6 hectares and is managed for wildlife as well as the companies offset clients Though seen as controversial by some carbon offsetting is one way of a company or individual to reduce their emissions, as the trees absorb and sequestrate carbon as they grow. (Photo by Ashley Cooper\/Construction Photography\/Avalon\/Getty Images)\" width=\"1350\" height=\"900\" data-credit=\"Construction Photography\/Avalon\/Getty\u200b Images\" data-caption=\"Sand Martin Wood in Faugh near Carlisle in Cumbria, UK, was acquired by the carbon offset company co2balance in September 2006\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"ArticleImageCaption\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImageCaption__CaptionWrapper\">\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Title\">Sand Martin Wood in Faugh near Carlisle in Cumbria, UK, was acquired by the carbon offset company co2balance in September 2006<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">Construction Photography\/Avalon\/Getty\u200b Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>I LIVE close to Holloway Prison in north London, a former women\u2019s jail. It closed in 2016 and is currently a demolition site being readied for flats. Over the fence, I can see huge piles of rubble \u2013 and a single magnificent plane tree in the middle of what will become a park. I am glad the developers didn\u2019t raze it to the ground along with all the others.<\/p>\n<p>The work\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg26134821-000-why-biodiversity-offsetting-is-a-contentious-issue-in-conservation\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_content=home\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Sand Martin Wood in Faugh near Carlisle in Cumbria, UK, was acquired by the carbon offset company co2balance in September 2006 Construction Photography\/Avalon\/Getty\u200b Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":213571,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213570"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":337560,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213570\/revisions\/337560"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}