M2. What are ecosystem services?

Ecosystem Services

Ecosystem Services are the benefits that people, including businesses, communities, and society at large, derive from ecosystems.

Which are the types of ecosystem services?

Provisioning

Products that people obtain from ecosystems

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REGULATING

SUPPORTING

Benefits obtained from the regulation of ecosystem processes

Natural processes that maintain the other services

CULTURAL

Nonmaterial benefits related to human

What are priority services?

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Priority ecosystem services are those services on which:

• Project operations are most likely to have an impact and, which result in adverse impacts to project-affected people
• The project is directly dependent for its operations (such as water or primary production)