Where offsets are located far away from the development site, the local community directly affected by the development will suffer a loss in biodiversity and ecosystem services. Equally, the community proximal to the offset site will experience an increase in biodiversity and ecosystem services. In some programmes, low land prices are a significant driver of the location of biodiversity offsets, low land prices are often correlated with relatively low population densities. Many biodiversity offsets are therefore located in regional areas where lower land prices improve the economic viability of the conservation projects, resulting in a spatial redistribution of biodiversity from urban to regional areas (Hough and Robertson, 2009, Ruhl and Salzman, 2006).