How much is an ecosystem worth?
Who benefits from its conservation?
Who should pay for its conservation?

Valuing biodiversity -- both its conservation and its use -- is a key tool for understanding what drives its loss and what options we have to sustain it.

Francis Vorhies has been working with IUCN, GEF IW:LEARN, PERSGA and others to build the capacity to use economic valuation for sustainable biodiversity management. This includes running training workshops in Cape Town, Jeddah and Ouagadougou.

The following Earthmind worksites contain a wide array of documents and links on valuing biodiversity:

  earthmind.net/marine

  earthmind.net/rivers

  earthmind.net/values