Albanese outlines plan for nature restoration market prompting calls for more urgent action

The outlined scheme would reward private landowners who restored and managed habitat, such as this bushfire-affected area in Kulnura, by granting them biodiversity certificates. Photograph: Joel Carrett/AAP

Conservation groups have called on the Albanese government to get on with strengthening the country’s environmental protections after it announced a plan to create a market for nature restoration.

The prime minister, Anthony Albanese, said the new scheme would recognise private landholders who restored and managed habitat by granting them biodiversity certificates that could then be sold to other parties.