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Conservation: Stop misuse of biodiversity offsets

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Governments should not meet existing conservation targets using the compensation that developers pay for damaging biodiversity, say Martine Maron and colleagues.

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  1. Martine Maron is associate professor in environmental management and an Australian Research Council future fellow in the School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Management at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.,

    Martine Maron

  2. Ascelin Gordon is a vice-chancellor's senior research fellow in the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies at RMIT University, Melbourne, Victoria.,

    Ascelin Gordon

  3. Brendan G. Mackey is director of the Griffith Climate Change Response Program at Griffith University, Gold Coast, Australia.,

    Brendan G. Mackey

  4. Hugh P. Possingham is an Australian Research Council laureate fellow at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, and professor of conservation decisions at Imperial College London, UK.,

    Hugh P. Possingham

  5. James E. M. Watson is associate professor of environmental management at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, and director of the Science and Research Initiative at the Wildlife Conservation Society.,

    James E. M. Watson

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Maron, M., Gordon, A., Mackey, B. et al. Conservation: Stop misuse of biodiversity offsets. Nature 523, 401–403 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/523401a

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