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Using Market Forces to Protect Our Coastal Forests |
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Andrew waxes poetic about our work to leverage change in the marketplace to protect Cole's favorite place...
A few weeks ago I was down in Wilmington, North Carolina, the heart of Dogwood Alliance’s Coastal Forest focal area to present at the Cape
Fear Arch Conservation Collaboration’s quarterly meeting. The Arch part of that name refers to a
special geologic feature stretching from Cape Lookout,
NC to Cape
Romain, SC containing
globally significant animal and plant communities. This area is also home to several large pulp
and paper mills that are having a destructive impact on forests of the region.
The rest of that name refers to a partnership of organizations and individuals
interested in protecting this region while balancing the needs of man and
nature. Its mission is to develop and implement a community conservation vision
to build awareness, protection and stewardship of the region’s important
natural resources and it is an emerging force in conservation in the region.
The title of my presentation was “Harnessing Market Forces for Forest
Conservation in the Southeast” and my was to explain how our work \pressuring the
large corporate customers of the paper mills in the region to adopt
environmentally responsible paper practices leads to pressure on the paper
producers themselves to be better stewards of the land and ultimately to changes
in forestry practices on the ground. Our campaigns get big companies invested
in environmental paper practices and forest conservation issues as the effect
the Cape Fear region. The corporations with their buying power and
their capital become new stakeholders at the table working towards the
protection of these forests.
My message to them was that our campaign work illustrates that lots of
people beyond the Cape
Fear region care about
these amazing forests. Thanks again for
your interest and support of our work.
Andrew Goldberg
Corporate Engagement Director
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