Bill Gates-funded climate change venture doesn’t call for razing 70 million acres of trees

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AP’S ASSESSMENT: False.

“These claims are false,” Alex Reid, a spokesperson for Bill Gates, wrote in an email Tuesday. “Kodama has developed forest management systems designed to increase forest productivity, prevent catastrophic wildfires, and increase carbon capture by burying dead trees to permanently store the carbon they captured over their lifetimes.”

“As written, this does not mean cutting down all trees in those acres and was subsequently misconstrued, likely leading to the narrative that came across your radar,” Sedlak wrote in an email Wednesday.ecological forest thinning Sedlak acknowledged it “may seem counterintuitive” but tree thinning is important not just for improving wildfire resilience but overall forest health.

 

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