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Launch the Map!<\/a> About the Data<\/a><\/div>\n
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About the Data<\/h1>\n

Ecosystem markets connect people who restore and maintain healthy landscapes with people or organizations willing to pay for conservation activities\u2014whether to safeguard ecological values that they depend on, such as clean and reliable water supplies, to comply with laws and regulations, or to provide a public good like cleaner air. The interactive Ecosystem Markets Map displays information about projects that conserve, restore, or support sustainable management of ecosystem services through ecosystem markets and market-based mechanisms. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Typically, these environmental markets focus on a single ecosystem service or asset type. The projects shown in this map are part of the following four markets that are best-established globally:<\/p>\n

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  1. Terrestrial, or \u201cforest and land-use,\u201d carbon <\/em><\/strong>projects<\/em><\/strong> produce \u201ccarbon offsets,\u201d which are quantified units of reductions in CO2 emissions that are bought and sold in carbon markets to offset for emissions elsewhere.<\/li>\n
  2. Species or habitats projects<\/em><\/strong> either preserve or restore at-risk habitat, or re-establish habitat that has already been lost through land-use change or other human activity. These projects mitigate impacts from development and are often conducted as the final step in the \u201cmitigation hierarchy,\u201d which requires that development projects first avoid, minimize, and restore damage to local ecosystems before they resort to mitigating in order to achieve \u201cno net loss\u201d or \u201cnet gain\u201d of biodiversity.<\/li>\n
  3. Wetlands and streams projects<\/em><\/strong> conserve or restore healthy wetlands and streams. Like imperiled species\/habitats projects, many of these projects are implemented in response to new development and are used as part of the mitigation hierarchy to achieve \u201cno net loss\u201d or \u201cnet gain\u201d of aquatic resources.<\/li>\n
  4. Watershed health projects<\/em><\/strong> target hydrological services such as water quality, groundwater levels, or dry-season flows. Examples of watershed health-focused projects are water quality trading programs, water funds that direct investments from downstream water users toward conservation of land upstream that regulates water supply, or public subsidies for watershed conservation.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    How Do I Use the Filters?<\/h2>\n

    The list of filters on the right-hand side of the Ecosystem Markets Map allows you to select the projects you are interested in. You can select as many or as few filters as you like. Once you have selected your filters, only those projects to which the selected filter category applies will be displayed on the map and in the Project Details <\/strong>section on the left side, and only those projects will also be included in the Summary of Selected Data<\/strong> on the bottom of the page. (Data will only be displayed in the map and the Project Details section where it is available in our database.)<\/p>\n

    Filters include:
    \nAsset Type <\/em><\/strong>is <\/em>the type of ecosystem service or asset the project is designed to provide or conserve: terrestrial carbon, species and habitats, wetlands and streams, or watershed<\/p>\n

    Location<\/em><\/strong> is the region and country in which the project operates.<\/p>\n

    Project Status <\/em><\/strong>denotes what stage the project is in. We generally consider projects \u201cactive,\u201d if they are currently generating quantified ecosystem services or goods that may be transacted through that project\u2019s mechanism.<\/p>\n

    Intervention <\/em><\/strong>is the management method the project uses to restore, enhance, or preserve ecosystem services, such as sustainable agricultural practices or reforestation. Many projects use more than one type of intervention.<\/p>\n

    Mechanism<\/em> <\/strong>is the transactional structure through which payments are exchanged for delivery of an ecosystem service asset. We include the following :<\/p>\n