Posted on November 5, 2025
By Matt Hooke – Reporter, Baltimore Business Journal
- Ecosystem Investment Partners closed a $400 million fund for wetland preservation.
- The fund will restore 8,000 acres of wetlands and 23 miles of streams.
- The company sells environmental mitigation credits to generate investor returns.
A Baltimore firm that preserves wetlands and sells credits to help companies comply with environmental laws closed a $400 million fund this month.
Mt. Washington-based Ecosystem Investment Partners last week announced the Oct. 8 closure of its fifth fund, which includes private and public investors ranging from the investment arm of IKEA to the Montana Board of Investments. The 20-person company plans to use the fund to restore and conserve over 8,000 acres of wetlands and 23 miles of streams around the U.S. on behalf of companies that need to comply with federal and state environmental regulations. The firm uses its restoration and conservation work to create environmental mitigation credits, which it then sells to generate returns for investors.
“The government buys lots of other stuff from private companies,” Dilks said. “They buy pickup trucks, they buy yellow paint, they buy lightbulbs. They don’t make that themselves. In environmental restoration, it was assumed that the government was the only entity that could do things like stream restoration. You couldn’t buy a unit of stream restoration from a company. That’s really flipped around.”
https://www.bizjournals.com/baltimore/news/2025/10/16/wetland-ecosystem-investment-credits-ikea.html
