Brussels, Belgium, May 5, 2025 (AFP) - Pricing birdsong: EU mulls nature credits to help biodiversity

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Could farmers get money for protecting birds or plants? That's the hope of the European Union, which is seeking to monetise biodiversity by creating a market for "nature credits". The European Commission last month launched a series of talks with financial, farming and green groups to ponder the idea, which has some environmentalists worried. "You can make good money by razing a forest to the ground, but not by planting a new one and letting it g......

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