Innovative Tools
Innovative Tools
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The changing face of land protection has stimulated the emergence of innovative approaches and strategies to conservation that shape new models while leverage existing resources. Learn how you can bring them to bear on the places you want to protect.
As we move through our beta phase, we'll add more information here about other emerging conservation strategies like:
- Carbon Credits
- Community-Sponsored Agriculture
- Economic Valuation of Ecosystem Services
- Management Agreements
- Water Resource Credits
Learn About Conservation Innovations
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Mitigation Banks
Mitigation banks are a regulatory innovation that provide a means of compensating for the negative impact of planned development activities in advance. Thus far, the use of mitigation banks has been limited largely to wetlands.
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© Rob Sheppard (ABRP-in preserve-5)
Dam Removal Gives Kelley Branch Some Shiners
by Bruce Ritchie
Those involved with the restoration of Kelley Branch -- a stream created by groundwater seeping from the sides of steephead ravines west of Tallahassee -- say similar dam removal projects could restore aquatic habitat across the Southeast. -
Conservation Development
Conservation development refers to an approach that combines new residential construction and land protection and generates revenue while accomplishing conservation goals.
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