In many densely populated countries in Europe, land suitable for agriculture, forest and protected areas is becoming scarcer with expanding settlement area. One way to mitigate this pressure is to abstain from the in-kind replacement of forest clearances and to allow for their compensation by nature conservation projects on areas other than agricultural land, including the forest itself. It is particularly the latter that implies a difficult trade-off for forest owners who adhere to the forest area preservation principle but at the same time support biodiversity offsetting in the forest as a potential new source of income.

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平衡森林面积保护和森林生物多样性抵消：森林所有者的政策偏好


在欧洲许多人口稠密的国家，随着定居点面积的扩大，适合农业、森林和保护区的土地变得越来越稀缺。缓解这种压力的一种方法是避免以实物替代森林砍伐，并允许在农业用地以外的区域（包括森林本身）进行自然保护项目对其进行补偿。特别是后者，这意味着森林所有者需要做出艰难的权衡，他们既坚持森林面积保护原则，但同时支持将森林中的生物多样性抵消作为潜在的新收入来源。