Perverse incentives abound. If you make your property more welcoming to nature, you risk having it taken from you if you are unlucky enough to make it too welcoming. Degradation is encouraged. You are incentivized to restrict access to your property to prevent unwelcome discovery of endangered species.

A contrary scheme would involve payments for making land more natural, with sliding scales based on the importance. Providing habitat for critically endangered species? You get a large payout. It would encourage expansion of habitat for such species, not destruction.

Of course governments would rather get benefits without having to themselves pay for them. That's actually something to worry about -- if costs are hidden, then the normal cost/benefit calculus that goes into formulating government policies is upset.

Even in the case of industrial pollution, it could be sensible to pay polluters to stop polluting, or at least give them positive financial incentive to do so. Issuing tradeable emission permits to polluters can be viewed as an example of this. Such a scheme was highly effective in reducing SOx emissions in the US, achieving SOx emission reductions 6x more cost effectively than had been projected. Similar incentive programs exist or have existed for farms and automobiles ("Cash for Clunkers").

There are also citrus fruits in many, many yards of SFHs. And these are seemingly a scourge upon churches and other community centers. It seems that any Catholic who owns property is in the habit of harvesting their citrus and then toting huge bags to church, where they informally distribute it to all takers. Now you feel bad for not taking any, and there's always a ton left, and it's a common sight to see completely unlabeled bags of grapefruit or lemons with no hint of age or provenance. (Sometimes it's done right under the nose of St. Vincent de Paul, where they've got their own sources of good nutritious fresh fruit as well...)

The trouble is that unharvested citrus is likewise a scourge for the homeowner. The oranges can attract "roof rats" and other pests even while still on the branch. Falling to the ground, well you can imagine the mess and smell and pests that will come from that.

The homeowners often enjoy the shade and cachet enough to keep the trees around, though. I had another friend with fig trees, which was way more exciting when he offered them to us at church!

Would mean much very little/nothing to most people, so I don't really see this as click bait.

I’ve wondered if there was any interaction between them but cannot find any evidence.