Are you saying that the problem is really because you're trying to compensate within a region, that it's regionally managed? Are you suggesting it would be a good idea to collaborate with other regions where there may be higher-value land that's more equal to the land that's being lost in terms of ecological services? Maybe we have a barrier here by trying to contain this within a regional area where you're losing high-value and there just isn't any high-value land to replace it with?
Am I understanding you correctly? Could there be better collaboration with neighbouring regions that might have higher-value land that could be conserved, in development, with some collaboration between regions?