Eco-system services markets are a way to attract new investment into environmental projects. They provide landholders with an income for undertaking work for the public good. Terrain NRM is exploring the concept of a 'Cassowary Credit' scheme, similar to carbon or reef credits, that would pay landholders to restore rainforest habitat. A Cassowary Credit would be a quantified and certified ‘biodiversity unit’ that could be openly traded. And landholders could combine this with a carbon credit to increase the payments from their habitat restoration.

Terrain NRM was listed in AFR/Boss Magazine's Most Innovative Companies in Australia and New Zealand List for 2019. Based on a rigorous assessment of internal elements such as innovation, culture, strategy, resources and process, which demonstrate a sustainable and repeatable approach to innovation, the award is a recognition of Terrain's long history of pushing boundaries and searching for new solutions to environmental challenges.

The Wet Tropics NRM Plan for People & Country is an award-winning natural resource management plan that outlines the region's priorities for funding, projects and activities with regards to protecting and restoring our natural environment. It was developed by Terrain NRM after extensive consultation with the community and is now available as an online resource with an extensive library of information and planning tools for landholders, community groups, governments and policy makers. Go to www.wettropicsplan.org.au to find out more.

Reef Credits – similar to carbon credits – is Australia’s first market-based system providing ecosystem service payments in exchange for making changes to reduce nutrient, pesticide and sediment run-off to the Great Barrier Reef. It also offers a measurable, verifiable and audited system that guarantees a result for investors. The scheme was developed via a unique partnership between Terrain NRM and GreenCollar, a leading environmental markets developer.