Sentence examples for a conservation bank from inspiring English sources

A key component to the development and monitoring of a conservation bank is the quantification of conservation value.

We estimated seasonal resource selection functions to identify the relative probability of female greater sage-grouse habitat selection as a function of environmental and infrastructure covariates to identify habitat suitability categories and subsequent habitat conservation value across a landscape in central Wyoming to be used in a conservation bank.

Ranchers selling conservation bank credits or mitigation easements on their lands are also often asked to restrict or eliminate grazing on the mitigation areas.

However, the Act also opens up the possibility of selling conservation bank credits from ranch lands, as one way to 'mitigate' is to purchase or create habitat for the endangered or threatened species elsewhere.

Developers and others who need to mitigate for adverse impacts to those same species may purchase conservation bank credits from willing sellers to meet their mitigation requirements (United States Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service 2011).

This paper examines the political construction of a policy instrument for matching particular institutional, biophysical and cultural context conditions in a social ecological system, using the case of conservation banking in California as an example.

When impacts to habitat cannot be adequately avoided or minimized, conservation banking is a viable species conservation strategy.

Conservation banking could be such an instrument, but only when certain criteria are met.

Furthermore, conservation banking could be applied to a subset of the network only, i.e. the wider landscape, as a complementary instrument to protected area policy.

The new policy also embraced net conservation gain for biodiversity and states a preference for advanced mitigation mechanisms such as conservation banking or habitat exchanges.

Every habitat conservation plan that I worked on during my eight years as Interior Secretary included a careful analysis of economic impacts and included measures — such as conservation banks, safe harbor provisions, and land exchanges — that allowed property owners or development interests to proceed with their activities provided they agreed to take certain protective measures.