WWF and the Alliance of Religions and Conservation (ARC) have signed an agreement to develop a template for managing land owned by religious organisations throughout the world.
ARC is a UK-based organisation that works with the world’s religions on environmental issues, often in partnership with WWF. Martin Palmer, chief executive of ARC and a WWF ambassador, estimates that the 11 faiths own around 7 per cent of the habitable surface of the planet. “Together, they are in the top 10 landowning groups in the world, and the environmental influence they can bring to bear cannot be overstated,” he declared.
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(That ^^ was a quote from 6 years ago.)
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Millions of hectares of religious forest managed ecologically by 2013
The inaugural Faiths and Forests meeting in Visby, Sweden culminated in August 2007 in a unanimous agreement to go forward and create a Religious Forestry Standard.
Once accepted, it will cause millions of hectares of forests around the world to be managed according to religious, environmental, social and economic criteria.
arcworld.org/news.asp?pageID=190
Will religions be better stewards of this property than they were of the people who trusted in their words and leadership over the last few centuries?