Eco Trades acquires land with high conservation values on behalf of investors wishing to enter the biodiversity offset market. The properties conservation values are fully assessed and documented by independent environmental consultants and the management requirements to improve and maintain these values determined.

These properties are them marketed by Eco Trades as traditional offsets for major infrastructure projects or as registered biobank sites.

Eco Trades provides the following services to its clients and offset partners:-

• Rapid access to strategically acquired properties suitable as biodiversity offsets for major projects including mining and infrastructure projects.
• Rapid access to registered biodiversity credits (once the biobanking scheme is operational) from its biodiversity land bank that has been established to provide the “like for like” credits required by developments throughout NSW. Eco Trades assumes all liability for the ongoing management, monitoring and success of the offset in perpetuity in accordance with the biobank agreement.
• Advice to corporations in the establishment of corporate biobanks to meet their individual needs and likely demands for credits. This guarantees ready access to personal credits for these companies.
• Assessment and professional advice on the suitability of potential biobank sites.
• Access to an extensive register of available properties that have had preliminary ecological assessments regarding the types and quantity of conservation values they hold.