New Exposé Condemns The Nature Conservancy for Falsely Promoting Industrial Logging and Wood Products as Climate Solutions
By: Danna Smith
BIGGEST US CONSERVATION GROUP EXPOSED FOAR UNDERMINING ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AND CLIMATE ACTION. A coalition of scientists, faith and environmental justice leaders, and forest defenders has released The Nature Conspiracy, a tell-all exposé calling out The Nature Conservancy (TNC) for falsely promoting wood production and logging as climate solutions. The coalition decided to produce the exposé after The Nature Conservancy repeatedly dismissed concerns about the destruction to forests and environmental justice communities it's helping to cause. "The Nature Conservancy - the biggest, richest, and most influential environmental organization in the country - has been working with the logging and wood products industries and lobbying governments at all levels to increase logging and expand markets for wood products, often calling these efforts 'natural climate solutions,'" said the Reverend Leo Woodberry, executive director of the New Alpha Community
Development Corporation and prominent leader in the environmental justice movement. TNC, with its $1billion annual budget raises more money in a week than just about all the environmental justice organizations in the U.S. combined raise in an entire year. Woodberry said, "When my colleagues and I presented The Nature Conservancy with evidence that wood production and industrial logging is destroying our forests, making climate change worse, and making rural communities - particularly communities of color - more susceptible to flooding, wildfires, water contamination, and pollution, they weren't interested in talking about how we can work together to fix this. As the climate crisis worsens, we need The Nature Conservancy to stop promoting false solutions." The exposé details why 158 faith, climate, justice, and forest protection organizations representing 3.5 million members signed an open letter to TNC's CEO, Jennifer Morris.
The letter calls on TNC to stop promoting
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