Author: EIP Communications

Ecosystem Mitigation Fund Reaches $181m Close

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Environmental Finance by Elza Holmstedt PellA private equity fund focused on payments for ecosystem services (PES) markets, involving wetlands mitigation and endangered species protection, has raised $181 million. Investment management firm Ecosystem Investment Partners (EIP) beat its initial target of $150 million for the EIP II fund. “EIP II closed with a strong and diversified … Continued

Ecosystem Investment Partners Raises Conservation Fund

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Reprinted from Private Equity International by Christopher Witkowsky, Editor A Baltimore-based investment firm has raised $180 million to invest in wetlands restoration, a niche strategy that combines conservation with mid-teen return expectations. Most limited partners probably would not associate private equity with the restoration of rapidly disappearing swampland in the backwoods of southern Louisiana. But one … Continued

EIP Exceeds Fund Target – Closes on $180.7 Million

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For Immediate Release Baltimore, MD Firm Provides Attractive Investment Returns and Significant Conservation Outcomes Ecosystem Investment Partners (“EIP”), a leading private equity firm focused on capitalizing on the Payments for Ecosystem Services (“PES”) markets surrounding wetland, stream and endangered species habitat mitigation throughout the U.S., today announced the final closing of its oversubscribed fund, Ecosystem … Continued

Land Conservation Remains as Popular as Ever

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EIP is profiled in this article from the Urban Land Institute on how governments across the nation have long recognized the need to preserve open space – but what may have been underestimated, however, is the commercial value of open space and its potential to create value.   Land Conservation Remains as Popular as Ever … Continued

The Green Island

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EIP’s Dover Farm Mitigation Bank is featured in Virginia Living magazine, which profiles the combined efforts of EIP and other partners to restore this complex and magnificent ecosystem.   The Green Island Virginia Living December 2011 issue by Mac Carey with Photos by John Henley Please visit this link to see the story.

Banking on Shale Gas to Preserve Wetlands

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Banking on Shale Gas to Preserve Wetlands   Businessweek Online   By Nadja Brandt and John Gittelsohn   Flanked by drilling rigs and pipelines, many of the wetlands feeding into the Sabine River in East Texas have been damaged by energy companies trying to extract gas from the Haynesville/Bossier Shale formation. That destruction is an … Continued

A Message from David Urban, NMBA President

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The Army Corps of Engineers issues new directive to significantly step up enforcement of mitigation bank credits as the preferred method for achieving compensatory mitigation. National Mitigation Banking Association The Association has worked hard to assure that selection of mitigation respects the preference for mitigation banks, and that permit decisions clearly document review of mitigation … Continued

The New Green Economy

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Want to save nature? Put a price on it. A new green approach is to put a market value on ecosystems — and preserve the planet along the way. EIP’s Dover Farm Mitigation Bank is featured in Wired magazine. The New Green Economy Wired Magazine by Hillary Rosner Stretching across parts of Virginia and North … Continued