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'''the The Nature Conservancy''' is considered a [[Big Green]] environmental group, one of the largest and most prominent in the world. It is a member of [[Natural Resources Council of America]]. It "sits on nearly a billion dollars in assets and is awash in cash, thanks to a tidal wave of corporate donations, much of it from notorious polluters such as [[Arco]], [[Archer Daniels Midland|Archer-Daniels-Midland]], [[British Petroleum]], [[DuPont]], [[Shell]] and [[Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold|Freeport-McMoRan]]. The group eschews political work in favor of the relatively noncontroversial project of buying land. Calling itself "Nature's real estate agent," the Nature Conservancy purchases private land and then sells it to state and federal agencies, often, according to its critics, at a considerable mark-up. Last year, the group violated its apolitical policy to concoct the compromise rewrite of the [[Endangered Species Act]] with a secret coalition of corporations and trade associations, including the [[National Homebuilder's Association]] and timber giant [[Georgia-Pacific Corporation|Georgie-Pacific]]. The group is led by [[John Sawhill]], former energy aide to [[Richard Nixon|Nixon]] and [[Gerald Ford|Ford]] and a fanatical proponent of [[nuclear power]], who has enjoyed lucrative positions on the boards of [[Procter & Gamble]], [[North American Coal Company]] and [[Pacific Gas & Electric]].

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