In the biobanking pilot in France, the security of tenure at the Coussouls de Crau site was secured in an innovative way involving two distinct stages. They then contracted out the land management activities to improve site biodiversity to the non-profit Provence Ecosystem Study Conservatory and the public Chamber of Agriculture for a 30-year period. In Madagascar, the Rio Tinto QMM offsets project converted six offset sites into protected areas, including three on-site offsets that were selected as avoidance zones from application of the mitigation hierarchy. Protection against subsequent land-use change was then delivered through amendments to land title where they financed the legal conversion of the offset sites into protected areas under Malagasy law (ICCM and IUCN, 2012, Temple et al., Specifically, the A65 Pau-Langon motorway is subject to countervailing measures longer than 60 years.