The privatisation of biodiversity?: New approaches to nature conservation law (Summary report of an AHRC-funded project examining the legal issues concerning potential new legal mechanisms for the conservation of biodiversity, prepared for policy makers)

The UK failed to meet its target of halting biodiversity loss by the end of 2010. Although some progress is being made, the current policy and regulatory approaches have not prevented, far less reversed, the loss of biodiversity across the country. There is scope to introduce a wider range of mechanisms to support conservation, making greater use of private sector initiative and resources and introducing elements of a market approach.