A Natural Capital & Impact Private Equity Firm
Conservation Equity Management invests in real assets that fortify environmental infrastructure and promote permanent land and ecosystem conservation.
1.3 million
linear feet of improved and conserved rivers and streams
45k+
acres of land with enhanced biodiversity
Ensuring enduring and healthy ecosystems
CEM is concentrated on areas of critical environmental and societal impact including industrial impacts to wetlands, streams, rivers, creeks, and endangered species habitats, climate change, and more.
Naturally Beneficial
CEM’s unique investment perspective centers around the rapidly expanding market of ecosystem services.
Community Positive
CEM's nature-based investments play a crucial role in mitigating climate change and adapting to its impacts, as they help sequester carbon, reduce urban temperatures, prevent floods, improve water quality, and increase community resilience.
Value Creating
CEM creates value by developing sustainable water resources, mitigating environmental impacts, and raising the value of important ecosystems.
Conservation investments that benefit the natural world, communities, and our investors.
Latest from the CEM community
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- Apr 23, 2026April 23, 2026
Conservation Equity Management (CEM), a private equity firm co-founded by Kyle Bass and Terry Anderson that specializes in high-impact conservation investments, is pleased to announce its acquisition of a diversified national portfolio of mitigation banks—now expanding into mitigation markets in Florida, Illinois, and Alabama. CEM now holds 28 conservation assets spanning nine states across the American South, Midwest, and Mid-Atlantic.
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- May 27, 2025May 27, 2025
Hedge fund wizard Kyle Bass made his name by predicting a housing collapse. Now he’s betting big on a growing market: nature.