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Driving tangible results in environmental conservation
The Moore Charitable Foundation is committed to effective environmental conservation and community stewardship through strong partnerships. 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 five percent of oceans, lagging well behind similar protections for land, 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, including protected and sustainable marine zoning and policy, augmented fishing protections, and effective enforcement.
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Advocating for Clean Water and Air Near North Carolina’s Hog Farms
Despite promises made two decades ago to develop cleaner and more sustainable animal waste systems, Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) throughout North Carolina still use the antiquated lagoon and sprayfield method to dispose of waste. Newer methods for waste management—such as directed biogas projects—cause even greater harm to North Carolina’s waterways, land, wildlife, and communities. The Moore Charitable Foundation partners with champions who take polluters head-on through research, advocacy, community mobilization, and, if necessary, litigation.
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Protecting scenic, historic and natural landscapes to help wildlife and surrounding communities
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 advance forest health to safeguard our natural environment and to ensure diverse species and abundant ecosystems for future generations.
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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
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In honor of World Rivers Day, The Moore Charitable Foundation recognized the significant and dedicated work of conservation partners who keep polluters accountable, advocate for riparian habitat restoration, and fight to keep our waterways clean. Resilient river and stream environments support biodiversity and wildlife, help maintain soil integrity, and are
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Public-private partnerships — including the vital role of philanthropy — are critical to addressing the planet’s most urgent conservation challenges. The Moore Charitable Foundation supports the important climate adaptation work of our grantees and partners to permanently protect landscapes, ecosystems and threatened and endangered species. Read more.
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The Longleaf Landscape Stewardship Fund (LLSF), a public-private partnership between ten nonprofit and government entities, recently announced its 2022 awards. With funding from the Orton Foundation— Moore Charitable Foundation’s North Carolina affiliate—the awards include a record $7.5 million in grants to support the restoration and management of longleaf pine
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