This is an editorial publication about how conservation gets paid for. It has one method, applied to every page: read the issuing document, report what it says, and name it so a reader can go and check.
What gets published here
Two kinds of page make up the site. Mechanism articles explain a funding structure from the statutes, deal papers and evaluations that produced it. Country dossiers set out what a named government budgets for nature and where in the public accounts that money is recorded.
Nothing carries a personal byline. The publication is the author, which is ordinary practice for reference titles. Where a claim cannot be traced to a document, it is not made.
Independence
Biodiversity Finance Journal is an independent publication. It is not affiliated with any United Nations agency or with any organisation it covers.
That sentence sits in the footer of every page, and it is there before anything else because of who the subjects are. Ministries, development agencies, national parks services, banks and conservation bodies write the documents these pages are built from. A reader deserves to know at the outset that none of them commissioned, cleared or paid for a word of what appears here.
The relationship runs one way only. This publication issues nothing on behalf of an organisation it covers, republishes none of their material, and speaks for nobody but itself.
How a claim reaches a page
Every number here was lifted from the paperwork that produced it: the law, the contract, the budget vote, the audited account, the published evaluation. Reporting about a document is used to find the document and never to supply its figures, because a paraphrase can carry a mistake nobody downstream is placed to catch. Figures travel with the definition behind them, since two bodies counting money for nature seldom count the same thing, and a total with its definition stripped off is worse than none at all.
Each document is saved on the day it is read, and that date appears next to the source wherever a figure from it is used. If the document is later revised, moved or taken down, the version this site worked from is still on file and the page can be checked against it.
A correction is welcome from any quarter, the cited institutions included. The ones that work name the page, the passage and the document that contradicts it. They go to the editors through the contact page, and the rules governing all of this, including what happens when a source itself turns out to be wrong, are set out on the editorial standards page.