Conservation and Biodiversity Market Services

There are many regulatory controls that have been put into place in order to protect biodiversity. Incentive-based market programs are emerging as a mechanism to compensate landowners for actively protecting biodiversity. As the cost associated with introducing new environmental controls continues to increase, federal, state, and local governments are now turning to market mechanisms to actively conserve biodiversity. These market mechanisms include; bank and trade systems, conservation easements, tax incentives, and government-funded programs. FORECON EMS has the ability to recognize and subsequently develop an ecological resource value for various ecological assets. The value from an ecological asset or bank can come in the form of increased land value, tradable mitigation credits, or by offsetting regulatory compliance obligations.