Albanese outlines plan for nature restoration market prompting calls for more urgent action

Biodiversity certificates scheme for private landowners gets mixed reception as issues with likened carbon credits system linger

Conservation groups have called on the Albanese government to get on with strengthening the country's environmental protections after it announced a plan to create a market for nature restoration.

The prime minister, Anthony Albanese, said the new scheme would recognise private landholders who restored and managed habitat by granting them biodiversity certificates that could then be sold to other parties.