Payments that enable landowners to rewild ecologically degraded land—in the form of biodiversity credits bought by investors wishing to offset their impact on nature—could be an effective component of ...

Planet Money buys a "biodiversity credit" and travels to the Andean cloud forest in Colombia — to see how these credits work, and if they can really help save threatened species. Protecting endangered ...

Protecting endangered ecosystems is usually thought of as a job for governments. Now, a new financial instrument hopes to get the private sector to help out. Stan Alcorn and Tomas Uprimni take a look ...