Acquisition Criteria

EIP acquires rural land with degraded or threatened ecological or habitat features, and enhances and restores these features to achieve ecological uplift that generates mitigation credits. 

EIP targets rural real estate acquisitions throughout the US at the intersection of three main opportunities:

• Ecologically significant properties with degraded or threatened aquatic or habitat features that can be restored to generate ecological “uplift” and mitigation credits that EIP can sell on the open market to developers in need of these credits to meet regulatory compliance under the federal Clean Water and Endangered Species Acts, as well as other state and local environmental laws.

• Areas with active land development that generate market demand for wetland, stream or habitat mitigation credits.

• Rigorous enforcement of the numerous state, local, and federal laws requiring that unavoidable ecological impacts must be offset by restoring comparable land that has been previously degraded or threatened by degradation.

EIP principally sources its investments through key strategic relationships with the major government natural resource agencies and conservation organizations.  These relationships enable EIP to conserve and restore some of the most ecologically significant properties in the US.

Transactions averge between $5 million and $15 million per investment.

Properties reange from 500 to 10,000 acres.