FAQ

Mitigation Banking FAQ

Learn more about mitigation banking and conservation bank credits.
  • What is mitigation banking?

    Mitigation banking unites sound environmental and economic practices to restore and enhance wetlands, streams, and other habitat resources. 

  • Who purchases mitigation bank credits?

    Anyone, including developers, transportation agencies and single-family homeowners, who have applied to the appropriate regulatory agency responsible for wetland/stream or species permitting and provided adequate justification of a need to impact the natural resource in question. 

  • What are the benefits of utilizing mitigation or conservation bank credits?
    • Mitigation Banks improve the time and cost of permit processing for both the regulator and project owner 
    • Mitigation Banks shift the responsibility and risk for successful restoration from the project owner to the mitigation banker. 
    • The mitigation bank assures appropriate financial and scientific resources are utilized to ensure the mitigation is successful. The perpetual maintenance of the bank’s environmental assets creates a higher level of success. 
    • Restoration in advance of development ensures a known economic, temporal, and environmental outcome for all project stakeholders. 
  • Do you only offer your services in Florida?

    We offer our mitigation banking services in Florida and throughout the U.S.

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