moreover where biodiversity offsets take a long time to mature structuring reward purely on the delivery of biodiversity outcomes can affect the willingness of landowners to create offsets in the first place salzman and ruhl the mrv provisions used in practice frequently rely on the use of supplier selfassessments and independent thirdparty verification though reporting may also be undertaken through public notification table the biobanking scheme in new south wales australia and the compensatory wetlands mitigation and conservation banking schemes in the united states conversely all require offset suppliers to selfmonitor offset progression against agreed performance standards and to submit selfmonitoring reports to regulators at periodic intervals nsw oeh dod and epa usfws