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AAP
Environment
Duncan Murray

Damning review of NSW biodiversity scheme

NSW's controversial Biodiversity Offsets Scheme is vulnerable to being manipulated, a review found. (Dave Hunt/AAP PHOTOS) (AAP)

A review of the NSW Biodiversity Offsets Scheme has found it effectively allows developers to pay to destroy threatened species, along with a raft of other issues.

Introduced in 2016, the highly criticised scheme enabled developers to offset unavoidable biodiversity loss by increasing biodiversity elsewhere, theoretically resulting in "net zero losses".

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