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What Are Nature's Services (aka "
Ecosystem Services
")?
Opportunities to Benefit From Protecting Nature's Services
Demonstrations of Nature's Services Benefiting Landowners and Communities
What Are Nature's Services?
Learning to Love (and Value) Ecosystem Services
How Nature's Services (also called "Ecosystem Services") are critical to our economy and quality of life
Report: Nature's Services Contribute $33 Trillion/Year to Global Economy;
click here for s
cientific
version from the esteemed journal,
Nature.
Investing in Green
Communicating the importance of ecosystem services
How much is a rainforest worth?
A scientific bibliography on valuation of ecosystem services
Opportunities to
Benefit From Maintaining Nature's Services
Markets and biodiversity - a global overview
Forest Environmental Services
Establishing Environmental Markets
Nature's "Water Factories" must be saved
Valuing and preserving services provided by healthy freshwater ecosystems
Conservation banking emerges in the Pacific Northwest
Protecting forests to protect drinking water and public health - a global necessity that saves $billions (it saved New York City as much as $5 billion).
American Waterworks Association: Conserving forests to protect water "For every 10% increase in forest cover in the source area...treatment and chemical costs
decreased
approximately 20%"
Tracking Ecosystem Service Markets
Demonstrations of Nature's Services Benefiting Landowners and Communities
The New Economy of Nature
Bringing Back New Orleans Wetlands as Hurricane Buffer
Assessing Costa Rica's System of Compensating Landowners for Protecting Habitat
Ecotourism is Working to Conserve Rainforests in Costa Rica
Protection of Grasslands Cited As Way to Stop Sandstorms
Opportunities for Andes Landowners to Receive Payments for Environmental Services
Markets to help restore major Oregon river
Costa Rican minister promotes payment for ecosystem services
Ecosystems, Economic Choices, and Human Well Being
New Study Finds Biodiversity Conservation Secures Ecosystem Services For People
Mangroves Help Protect Indonesia From Impacts of Climate Change
How Better Conservation Measures Can Help Reduce Poverty
Amazon Deforestation Could Be Eliminated With Carbon Priced at $3 Per Ton
Returns From Carbon Offsets Could Beat Palm Oil in Congo DRC
Carbon And Avoided Deforestation: The Road to Bali
Forests Could Prove to Be EU's Carbon-Cutting Savior
Is the Amazon More Valuable for Carbon Offsets Than Cattle or Soy?
Biodiversity As Medicine - Fruit Compound Fights Head, Neck Cancer
Biodiversity Said to be Key to Healthy, Pest-Resistant Forests
World Bank Carbon Fund to Pay for Protecting Forests
Forest Service to Sell Carbon Offsets, But Scientists Worry About Accountability Tree-Based Offsets
FSC Ranked Top Certification for Sustainable Forestry
Status of Water Quality Trading Programs Today
Forests Reduce Flooding
Do Costa Rica's Payments for Environmental Services Work?
Mongabay.com, 9/27
Australian Water Markets Are Growing Up
Ecosystem Marketplace, 9/27
Moving Ecosystem Services From Theory Into Reality
Eco-Capitalists Save Mother Nature By Charging For Her Services
Is Water the New Carbon?
Forests Key to Climate Change Battle - Thomas Lovejoy
Ecological Restoration -- A Global Strategy for Mitigating Climate Change
Payments for Ecosystem Services - Why Precision and Targeting Matter
Carbon Credits Could Be Big Earner for Indonesia
Compensation and Rewards for Environmental Services
Payments for Ecosystem Services in East and Southern Africa
WRI: Value Earth's Ecosystems Or They Will Disappear
Getting Credit for Saving Trees
Incorporating Forest Protection in Climate Change Mitigation
Raising the Bar on Carbon Forestry Projects
Paying Developing Countries to Not Burn Forests
In China, Forest Restoration for Climate, Community, and Biodiversity
Sustainable Rainforest Farming Can Preserve Biodiversity, Ecological Services
Opportunities for Andes Landowners to Receive Payments for Environmental Services
Banking on Wetlands - a Profitable Solution to Counter Habitat Loss?
Scientific Insights on Ecosystem Services, Issue 2
Restoring wetlands key to curbing bird flu
Urban interests harmed by wetland development program
$57 billion/yr in natural services provided by...insects
Costa Rica Prospers by Protecting its Ecosystems
Brazil Seals Biggest Carbon Credit Deal with KfW
Mainstreaming payments for ecosystem services in the developing world
Trails lead to profits, expert says
Farmers putting on cash into anti-pollution measures, protecting farm vitality
Interview: Pioneer of Costa Rica's system of payments for ecosystem services
Better forest management has key role in combatting climate change
Paying for predator conservation
Moving toward a common understanding of accounting for ecosystem services
Green payments and American agriculture
Payments for ecosystem services in rural Africa
City wise to study proposed artificial wetlands along river
New China conservation program converts steeper farmlands back to forests to stem erosion
Besides food, farming can provide wildlife habitat and reduce global warming
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