Florida Panther Conservation LLC, Hendry County

Habitat-conservation banking is a method of preserving, enhancing, restoring or creating habitat to compensate for unavoidable impacts to the habitat of federally listed threatened and endangered species. When Florida Panther Conservation LLC envisioned the creation of such a habitat-mitigation bank for the Florida panther and other federally protected species, it called upon the experienced staff of Passarella & Associates to develop the plan.

Passarella & Associates has worked with the clients and the United States Fish and Wildlife Service to permit and preserve nearly 2,000 acres of Priority 1 panther habitat in Hendry County. The project lies just four and one-half miles north of the Big Cypress National Preserve and helps tie together critical habitat in major preserved areas in the southern portion of the region with preserved lands to the north. This project is the first habitat-conservation bank in the nation dedicated to the Florida panther.

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