Investing in Biodiversity

What We Do

Dorado operates within the NSW Biodiversity Offset Scheme: Australia's most sophisticated framework for offsetting the unavoidable biodiversity impacts of development. Since 2018, we've partnered with landowners to generate biodiversity credits on their land and helped development proponents source the credits they need.

How the Scheme Works

NSW recognises over 1,394 ecosystem credit types (traded across 364 Offset Trading Groups) and 867 species credit types, making it the country's highest-integrity biodiversity market.

Landowners enter into Biodiversity Stewardship Agreements, committing to the permanent protection and active management of native vegetation. In return, they receive saleable Biodiversity Credits based on the expected improvement in biodiversity outcomes. Development and infrastructure projects offset their vegetation clearing by purchasing these credits.

The scheme delivers landowners two revenue streams: proceeds from credit sales, and perpetual annual stewardship payments from the NSW Government to fund ongoing land management.

For Landowners

Dorado partners with landowners to create and sell Biodiversity Credits. Our expert team manages the entire process - from credit creation through to sale, in close consultation with the landowner, so they can continue their day-to-day farming activities without additional capital or time outlay. The result is a new, long-term income stream from their land while permanently enhancing its environmental value.

For Proponents

Dorado works directly with government and private sector proponents delivering infrastructure, renewables, mining and other projects requiring significant Biodiversity Credit offsets. We support proponents in two ways:

Credit Portfolio: sourcing credits from our extensive existing inventory for immediate sale.

Credit Creation: generating specific credits that are scarce or don't yet exist in the market, by partnering with suitable landowners.

Our credit creation service delivers proponents a substantial cost saving versus the alternative of paying into the Biodiversity Conservation Fund (BCF), while securing genuine like-for-like offsets, a materially better biodiversity outcome. By comparison, in FY25 the BCF satisfied just 35% of its obligations through inferior non like-for-like offsets.