FINANCING CONSERVATION IN THE CAROLINIAN ZONE, PART 2: THE LONG POINT WALSINGHAM FOREST CONSERVATION IMPACT BOND

VERGE Capital is part of a cross-sector collaboration that brought the first phase of this Conservation Impact Bond to life, and continues to support the development of the second phase. This post was originally published by SVX on their Medium blog.

The Carolinian Canada Conservation Impact Bond (CIB) is an ambitious social finance initiative harnessing a combination of impact investment and philanthropic grants to finance positive landscape renewals and improvements in the Carolinian Zone of Southern Ontario. The two-phase initiative seeks to improve a combined 1,000 acres of habitat in this ecologically significant region of Ontario, protecting the region’s fragile biodiversity and freshwater reserves. In this blog series, we are highlighting the Carolinian CIB, the development of its phase two bond, and results from a community design session in May. In part two of three, we will describe the Phase II bond — an even more ambitious investment to scale up conservation efforts in southern Ontario.