MORE BACKGROUND ON NGOs AND THEIR POWER OF MONEY

Judy Keeler, Bootheel Heritage Association, New Mexico
Our area is under siege by various environmental groups and federal agencies. When The Nature Conservancy (TNC) failed to sell the Gray Ranch to the US Fish and Wildlife Service for a Wildlife Refuge in 1991, they sold it to another nonprofit organization called the Animas Foundation (a Missouri private operating foundation, 1997 Assets: $37,907,924; Income $4,666,644) in 1993, while retaining for themselves a conservation easement on the property. John Cook, Vice President of Natural Resources for TNC, is on the board of directors for the Animas Foundation. In 1994 Mr. Cook also helped organize a group called the Malpai Borderlands Group (1998 assets: $860,295; Income $355,940), of which he is currently co-director. TNC’s general council, Michael Dennis, is also the Malpai Group’s general council. The Group’s application for tax exempt status, drafted by Dennis, states they intend
to develop and implement a “comprehensive land management strategy” for nearly one million acres in Southwest New Mexico and Southeast Arizona. They intend to manage this area “in cooperation” with federal and state agencies.
http://www.undueinfluence.com/Power%20to%20Hurt.pdf

Copy and paste the above link to a search engine to read this alarming paper on how the NGOs buy and sell influence for policies like wolf reintroduction.