Lourival, Reinaldo Francisco Ferreira;
de Roque, Fabio de Oliveira;
Bolzan, Fabio Padilha;
Guerra, Angelica;
Nunes, Alessandro Pacheco;
Lacerda, Ana Cristyna Reis;
Nunes, Andre Valle;
... Tomas, Walfrido Moraes; + view all
(2025)
Ten relevant questions for applying biodiversity offsetting in the Pantanal wetland.
Conservation Science and Practice
, 7
(7)
, Article e13274. 10.1111/csp2.13274.
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Abstract
In Brazil, biodiversity offsetting operates in an ad hoc manner while biodiversity equivalence has mainly been overlooked by public policies. Despite being mandatory since 1965s Forest Code (Law 4.771), we fail to have a robust offsetting framework. The revision of the forest code in 2012 (i.e., Native Vegetation Protection Law—NVPL—Law n° 12,651/2012), maintained the obligation for landowners to set aside a biome-specific percentage of their native vegetation for preservation. Known as Legal Reserves, these set-asides are a precondition for compliance with NVPL's regularization procedure called CAR (Rural Environmental Cadaster). Despite enthusiasm about biodiversity offsetting opportunities following the NVPL enactment in 2012, uncertainties around its implementation remains. Here, we formulated 10 questions that discuss and illustrate how offsetting can be applied to maintain wetland integrity, economic fairness and biodiversity conservation in the Pantanal and Upper Paraguay River basin (UPRB). The aim is to stimulate robust public policies and stimulate wetland offsetting research opportunities. We provided examples of implementation opportunities of the NVPL in integrating the floodplain and highland in Pantanal at UPRB, analyze spatial compliance deficits, and illustrate opportunities that require harmonized legislation and policies between Mato Grosso and Mato Grosso do Sul states in Brazil.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Ten relevant questions for applying biodiversity offsetting in the Pantanal wetland |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1111/csp2.13274 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1111/csp2.13274 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2025 The Author(s). Conservation Science and Practice published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of Society for Conservation Biology. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| Keywords: | biodiversity, Brazil Pantanal, Forest-code, Native Vegetation Protection Law—NVPL, offsetting, wetlands |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Anthropology |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10215698 |
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