Nikki Klink Marin

Review of The Nature Conservancy

The Nature Conservancy seems to me like a scam. I ...

The Nature Conservancy seems to me like a scam. I donated to them once after an airline sent me an email saying that I could donate for carbon offsets.
Ever since then, my mailbox has been flooded with lots of mail from them. Each mail piece has lots of paper, and once they even sent me a thick booklet. It seemed funny to me that an organization that supposedly cares about the environment uses so many resources (think: trees for paper, fuel to deliver mail, etc).
I requested via Paper Karma (which is an awesome organization, go Paper Karma!) to take me off their mailing list, and they did not. Then, I directly replied to one of NC's mailings asking to be taken off their list, and they still did not.
Then, my husband joked that NC might be a scam. I did a little research and found that they have oil company owners and the like on their board. They've also drilled oil on Nature Conservancy land. There's lots of dirt on them. Go ahead and research for yourself.