This publication brings together the key concepts, case studies and recommendations presented at a symposium entitled Valuing Nature: Protected Areas and Ecosystem Services held in Brisbane, Australia on 21-22 July 2014. The symposium brought together over one hundred protected area, conservation, and ecological economic experts from government agencies, non-government organisations, the private sector, and universities. This included national and international experts in the areas of environmental accounting, the theory and practice of ecosystem service valuation, including approaches to payments for ecosystem services.