Identifying and measuring the ecosystem and their economic value in a shade grown Mate Plantation/Atlantic rain forest restoration venture.

Guayaki is an American tea company looking for areas to showcase their environmental restoration and conservation initiatives and attract potential investors. By assessing the ecosystem services they have been working to conserve, ecosystem marketplaces will be able interpret the economic value of Guayaki‟s environmental initiatives. The Canadian owned resource management group Spectrum Resource Group would like to explore the opportunity of expanding into the ecosystem service assessment area. This purpose of this internship is to explore the process of developing and implementing an ecosystem services assessment case study. Helping to develop a case study will provide Spectrum with intellectual capital and know how in order to credibly provided diligent ecosystem services assessments to clients in the future.

Faculty Supervisor:

Barry Glickman

Student:

Branden Beatty

Partner:

Spectrum Resource Group Inc.

Discipline:

Biology

Sector:

Forestry

University:

University of Victoria