Weyerhaeuser Company is to continue its support of biological diversity, conservation and sustainable management in US forests with a US$170,000 grant to The Nature Conservancy.
The global conservation organisation is to spend £90,000 of the grant to increase the amount of available data on the Willamette Valley in Oregon, which will enable more conservation projects to be undertaken in the region.
The remaining £80,000 will be spent on conducting biological inventories and forest management assessments in the Old Cove area of Mississippi, a 350-acre area inside a working forest used to produce lumber and other forest products.
Weyerhaeuser has committed US$1m to a five-year programme to develop forest conservation and biodiversity in managed forests.
