on landholders, and that more effective and more transparent measures could be used to achieve biodiversity conservation … biodiversity regulations. The Commission’s preliminary findings were released for public comment in December 2003. It found that … Vegetation and Biodiversity Regulations, and Government’s response was released in August. In its final assessment, the …

concentrated. Biologists and conservation advocates have advanced a number of arguments both that “biodiversity” is imperiled as … services of forest ecosystems will prove sufficient to motivate their conservation on a large scale. Other instruments for … conservation must, then, be employed if areas under intense pressure for conversion are to be preserved. …