🚁 Heli view: Can a storm of financial innovation save Africa’s wild places?

They may not yet have the sex appeal of electric vehicles. But “biodiversity credits” – currently emerging across the continent – appear similarly vibrant and futureful.

What they are: Financial instruments aimed at conserving or restoring specific bits of nature. 

The status quo: Carbon credits, now two decades old, at times already include similar aspects. 

• But most are an add-on rather than being core to the instrument.