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Driving tangible results in environmental conservation
The Moore Charitable Foundation is guided by a commitment to conservation, community, and collaboration. With our partners, we are preserving open land and healthy forests, ensuring clean water, advancing marine area and species protections, and fostering future generations of conservation and community stewards.
Healthy Oceans
Formal protections cover just eight percent of oceans, leaving marine areas vulnerable to rampant development, overfishing, pollution, and climate change. The Moore Charitable Foundation partners with organizations mitigating these threats by advancing conservation outcomes for species, habitats, and communities.
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Resilient Forests and Watersheds
The Moore Charitable Foundation promotes forest and watershed health and protects crucial species to sustain ecosystems and the vital services they provide, such as fire and flood mitigation, clean water, and biodiversity conservation.
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Intact Landscapes
Faced with population growth, development pressure, energy infrastructure, extreme weather, and a changing climate, The Moore Charitable Foundation is committed to strategic partnerships that conserve open spaces and protect working lands.
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Deforestation
From North Carolina to Mississippi, the largely unregulated biomass industry clearcuts wetlands and forests, leading to harmful air and water pollutants in many vulnerable communities. The Moore Charitable Foundation works with organizations to safeguard America’s southern forests and communities from the biomass industry, whose false claims of sustainability mask the true carbon cost of logging, production, shipping, and burning.
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Revitalizing Forests and Keeping Communities Safe with Prescribed Fire
The Moore Charitable Foundation promotes the use of prescribed burning to restore forests, maintain clean water and lower the risk of wildfire. Prescribed burning is the practice of deliberately setting and carefully managing fires under strict conditions approved and monitored by firefighting professionals. A centuries-old tradition, today the practice is used to protect and refresh forests by removing the dense vegetation build-up in a forest’s understory that fuels large wildfires. This also allows for indigenous plants and wildlife to thrive, restoring a more natural and diverse ecosystem.
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29
Years
Number of years The Moore Charitable Foundation has been driving conservation impact
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199
Grantees
Number of grantees in land, water, marine, and community initiatives The Moore Charitable Foundation is proud to have supported last year
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234
Square Kilometers
Size of marine reserve around British Overseas Territory Ascension Island, secured with partners and our support
“We are grateful to The Moore Charitable Foundation for partnering with us to defend our state’s precious natural riches.” — Derb Carter, Director, Southern Environmental Law Center, North Carolina
