Int'l fdn for Conservation of Nat Res
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</p><p>===</p><p><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/International_Foundation_for_the_Conservation_of_Natural_Resources">http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/International_Foundation_for_the_Conservation_of_Natural_Resources</a>
</p><div id="mw-content-text" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" lang="en"><p>The <b>International Foundation for the Conservation of Natural Resources</b> (IFCNR), a <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/501%28c%29%283%29" title="501(c)(3)">501(c)(3)</a>
established 1995 in the Commonwealth of Virginia, describes itself as a
independent non-profit foundation "that represents a broad range of
individuals, academic institutions, corporations, associations,
industries, cultures, non-governmental organizations and government
agencies bound together by the desire to promote responsible,
sustainable, environmentally compatible, and socially just use and
conservation of the Earth's natural resources." <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.ifcnr.com/whoweare.html">[1]</a>
It argues that "Some are hopelessly, dangerously, and even
intentionally myopic. Regulatory, legislative, and legal actions
undertaken in the name of 'saving the animals' often present cultures,
governments, professions, and corporations dependent upon resource use
with dire consequences. Those consequences can mean the end to trade,
severely inhibiting regulatory mandates, the abolition of the outdoor
heritage of hunting and fishing, as well as the endangerment of an
ancient culture." <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.wildecology.ifcnr.com/about.cfm">[2]</a>
<b>Mission</b>
"To communicate, educate, evaluate, and advocate for the environmentally
sound, ethical, socially just, and sustainable use of Nature's
resources." <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.ifcnr.com/whoweare.html">[3]</a></p>
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<ul><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/International_Foundation_for_the_Conservation_of_Natural_Resources#Pombo.27s_Environmental_Group"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Pombo's Environmental Group</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/International_Foundation_for_the_Conservation_of_Natural_Resources#Pombo.27s_Junkets"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Pombo's Junkets</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/International_Foundation_for_the_Conservation_of_Natural_Resources#Anti-Environmentalist_Front_Group"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Anti-Environmentalist Front Group</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/International_Foundation_for_the_Conservation_of_Natural_Resources#GM_Foods"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">GM Foods</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/International_Foundation_for_the_Conservation_of_Natural_Resources#World_Council_of_Whalers"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">World Council of Whalers</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/International_Foundation_for_the_Conservation_of_Natural_Resources#Key_Personnel"><span class="tocnumber">6</span> <span class="toctext">Key Personnel</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/International_Foundation_for_the_Conservation_of_Natural_Resources#Donors"><span class="tocnumber">7</span> <span class="toctext">Donors</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/International_Foundation_for_the_Conservation_of_Natural_Resources#Contact_Details"><span class="tocnumber">8</span> <span class="toctext">Contact Details</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-9"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/International_Foundation_for_the_Conservation_of_Natural_Resources#External_links"><span class="tocnumber">9</span> <span class="toctext">External links</span></a>
<ul><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-10"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/International_Foundation_for_the_Conservation_of_Natural_Resources#Profiles"><span class="tocnumber">9.1</span> <span class="toctext">Profiles</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-11"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/International_Foundation_for_the_Conservation_of_Natural_Resources#IFCNR_Publications"><span class="tocnumber">9.2</span> <span class="toctext">IFCNR Publications</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-12"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/International_Foundation_for_the_Conservation_of_Natural_Resources#Websites"><span class="tocnumber">9.3</span> <span class="toctext">Websites</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-13"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/International_Foundation_for_the_Conservation_of_Natural_Resources#Articles_.26_Commentary"><span class="tocnumber">9.4</span> <span class="toctext">Articles & Commentary</span></a></li></ul>
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<h2> <span class="mw-headline" id="Pombo.27s_Environmental_Group">Pombo's Environmental Group</span></h2>
<p>California Republican Representative <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Richard_Pombo" title="Richard Pombo">Richard Pombo</a>, who is chairman of the House Resources Committee, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ewg.org/news/story.php?id=4288">runs</a>
his own 'environmental' group, called the International Foundation for
the Conservation of Natural Resources, according to Matt Weiser, <i>High Country News</i> published July 25, 2005, by the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Environmental_Working_Group" title="Environmental Working Group">Environmental Working Group</a>.
IFCNR, "funded by large corporations, challenges mainstream
environmental groups and crusades for more lenient environmental laws
worldwide. Between 2001 and 2003 the foundation collected donations
totaling $130,000 from food giants <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Sysco_Corp.&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sysco Corp. (page does not exist)">Sysco Corp.</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Monsanto" title="Monsanto">Monsanto</a> and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/General_Mills" title="General Mills">General Mills</a>.
It then put out a series of 'studies' and position papers on the
importance of bioengineered food. During the same period, it collected
almost $430,000 from restaurant chains, corporate fishing concerns,
whaling organizations and fur-trapping associations. The foundation then
launched a barrage of counterattacks against animal-rights groups that
had organized boycotts of those industries."
The IFCNR is "bankrolled <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.publicintegrity.org/report.aspx?aid=754">in large part</a> by the parent company of Red Lobster and Olive Garden restaurant chains, Orlando-based <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Darden_Restaurants" title="Darden Restaurants">Darden Restaurants</a>," the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Center_for_Public_Integrity" title="Center for Public Integrity">Center for Public Integrity</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.publicintegrity.org/report.aspx?aid=753">reported</a>
October 18, 2005. "From 2000 to 2004, Darden has given IFCNR a total of
$574,000, more than a third of its total support. The IFCNR has no
staff and its headquarters are located at a home address, yet tax
returns claim money for 'Leasehold Improvements,' 'Fence,' and
'Flooring'."
"IFCNR does not reveal its relationship with Darden or any of its
other funders on its Web site, although articles defending and praising
the activities of both" <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://fisheries.ifcnr.com/article.cfm?NewsID=572">Red Lobster</a> and <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://agecology.ifcnr.com/article.cfm?NewsID=273">Pombo</a> "are featured prominently there." <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.publicintegrity.org/report.aspx?aid=753">[4]</a></p>
<h2> <span class="mw-headline" id="Pombo.27s_Junkets">Pombo's Junkets</span></h2>
<p>The Center for Public Integrity has <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.publicintegrity.org/report.aspx?aid=753">discovered</a>
that Pombo "has taken at least two foreign trips costing more than
$23,000 that were paid for by the nonprofit International Foundation for
the Conservation of Natural Resources."
"Pombo said he did not pay taxes on his foreign trips. IFCNR does not
indicate that it paid taxes on the trips anywhere on its publicly
available tax documents. In fact, IFCNR checked a box on all its tax
forms from 2000 through 2004 saying it did not 'provide a grant to an
individual for travel, study, or other similar purposes.'" <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.publicintegrity.org/report.aspx?aid=753">[5]</a>
"Experts on tax issues said the law requires Pombo to return the
costs of the foreign trips to the foundation. If not, both the
foundation and the member of Congress could face stiff penalties from
the IRS." <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.publicintegrity.org/report.aspx?aid=753">[6]</a>
According to the Center for Public Integrity's research:</p>
<ul><li>"Pombo recently <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.publicintegrity.org/docs/oi/esa_legislation.pdf">pushed legislation</a> through the House which critics claim will gut the landmark <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Endangered_Species_Act" title="Endangered Species Act">Endangered Species Act</a>.
He also has drawn fire for a working document drafted by staffers on
one of the subcommittees of his House Resources Committee that suggests
16 national parks be sold off for development in order to close a budget
gap." <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.publicintegrity.org/report.aspx?aid=753">[7]</a></li></ul>
<ul><li>"The Pombo trips involved a subsidiary of IFCNR called the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Sustainable_Use_Parliamentarians_Union&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sustainable Use Parliamentarians Union (page does not exist)">Sustainable Use Parliamentarians Union</a>, which the foundation formed several years ago, according to IFCNR President Emeritus Stephen Boynton. Pombo was chairman of <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://supu.ifcnr.com/index1.cfm">SUPU</a> from its formation in 2000 until this past July. He was replaced as chairman of the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.fisheries.ifcnr.com/article.cfm?NewsID=574">group</a> by Rep. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Dennis_Rehberg" title="Dennis Rehberg" class="mw-redirect">Dennis Rehberg</a>, a Republican from Montana." <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.publicintegrity.org/report.aspx?aid=753">[8]</a></li></ul>
<ul><li>"A <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.publicintegrity.org/docs/oi/pombo_IFCNS_2000.jpg">November 2000 trip</a>
to Nelson, New Zealand, on which Pombo was accompanied by his wife,
cost $10,120. Another IFCNR-sponsored trip by Pombo in May 2002 to <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.publicintegrity.org/docs/oi/pombo_IFCNS_2000.jpg">Shimonoseki, Japan</a>, on which he was accompanied by a member of his staff, cost $13,190." <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.publicintegrity.org/report.aspx?aid=753">[9]</a></li></ul>
<p>The Center for Public Integrity interviewed Pombo, who "said he was
unaware the foundation was private or that it fell under a different set
of tax rules from most other nonprofit groups that pay for foreign
travel by members of Congress. 'I really have no idea what is going on
with that foundation,' said Pombo. Obviously I will have my accountant
check into this.'
"But Boynton said in a taped interview that he had checked with Pombo
and the House Ethics Committee and that the trips had been cleared by
both." (Link to the interview on <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.publicintegrity.org/report.aspx?aid=753">page</a>.) <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.publicintegrity.org/report.aspx?aid=753">[10]</a>
"Pombo said that he has not spoken to Boynton or had contact with
IFCNR or the Sustainable Use Parliamentarians Union in three or four
years—even during the time he served as SUPU's chairman—and that he
currently has no plans to reestablish contact with the groups." <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.publicintegrity.org/report.aspx?aid=753">[11]</a></p>
<h2> <span class="mw-headline" id="Anti-Environmentalist_Front_Group">Anti-Environmentalist Front Group</span></h2>
<p>The IFCNR website "includes a <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ifcnr.com/news.html">large number of articles</a>
that attack animal-protection groups or defend corporations such as
Darden and Monsanto," the Center for Public Integrity wrote. "A
three-part series defending Monsanto's <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Biotechnology" title="Biotechnology">biotechnology</a>
business promises to examine 'the public crucifixion of a corporate
name, Monsanto, and the mutation of environmental and animal advocacy.'
"The <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Humane_Society_of_the_United_States" title="Humane Society of the United States">Humane Society of the United States</a>
is singled out for some of the harshest criticism on the Web site. The
group's push to end Canadian seal hunts has included a snow crab boycott
effort that in recent months focused on Red Lobster. One article on the
Web site attacking the Humane Society over the boycott effort is titled
'Target Red Lobster: A Lesson for Corporations & Others.'"</p>
<h2> <span class="mw-headline" id="GM_Foods">GM Foods</span></h2>
<p>"IFCNR has traditionally focused on defending hunting, trapping and fishing but more recently <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/GM" title="GM" class="mw-redirect">GM</a>
[genetically-modified foods] has been added to its list of causes and
it now has a website focusing specifically on this issue," <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=GM_Watch&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="GM Watch (page does not exist)">GM Watch</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.gmwatch.org/profile1.asp?PrId=65&page=I">wrote</a>
in its IFCNR profile. "The rationale behind this focus is made clear in
an IFCNR article about how a specialty grocery chain had gone GM free
following, 'a year-long campaign of street theater intimidation
orchestrated by Greenpeace'": <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://biotech.ifcnr.com/article.cfm?NewsID=236">"Trader Joe's Defenseless Against Greenpeace,"</a> November 19, 2001.</p>
<h2> <span class="mw-headline" id="World_Council_of_Whalers">World Council of Whalers</span></h2>
<p>In August 1998, the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=World_Council_of_Whalers&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="World Council of Whalers (page does not exist)">World Council of Whalers</a> (WCW) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.worldcouncilofwhalers.com/publications/newsletters/3.htm#international">welcomed</a>
IFCNR as a member. WCW reported that Steven Boynton, "an attorney, has
been involved in sustainable use issues for many years and was a great
help during the drafting of the WCW resolutions and ultimately the
introduction of the WCW resolution into the US Congressional Record."
"Congressman Richard Pombo read the WCW General Assembly Resolution
into the Congressional Record on June 11, 1998. WCW believes this is
very significant because the US is one of the IWC member States that
continually comes to the IWC forum with a 'no whaling' position." WCW
thanked Pombo "for his strength and courage to introduce such a
controversial resolution into the Congressional record of an
anti-whaling nation. Mind you, Congressman Pombo is not new to
sustainable resource issues as he represented the US Congress at the
CITES Conference held in Zimbabwe in June 1997."
The August 1999 WCW newsletter <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.worldcouncilofwhalers.com/publications/newsletters/7.htm">reported</a>
that "a request [had been submitted] to WCW to prepare a 'briefing
book' to provide background information to government decision makers
concerning the whaling issue in Tonga and internationally. ... This
sustainable development initiative has been supported with funding from
the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Canadian_International_Development_Agency" title="Canadian International Development Agency">Canadian International Development Agency</a> and the International Foundation for the Conservation of Natural Resources."</p>
<h2> <span class="mw-headline" id="Key_Personnel">Key Personnel</span></h2>
<ul><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Stephen_S.Boynton" title="Stephen S. Boynton">Stephen S. Boynton</a>, Esq., USA, President Emeritus</li><li>Dr. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Olympio_Faissol_Pinto&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Olympio Faissol Pinto (page does not exist)">Olympio Faissol Pinto</a>, Brazil, Governor</li><li>Dr. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Stephen_Fausel&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Stephen Fausel (page does not exist)">Stephen Fausel</a>, USA, Governor</li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=W.Richard_Monroe&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="W. Richard Monroe (page does not exist)">W. Richard Monroe</a>, USA, Governor</li><li>Dr. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Cynthia_Botteron&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Cynthia Botteron (page does not exist)">Cynthia Botteron</a>, USA, Advisor</li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/John_D.Aquilino,Jr." title="John D. Aquilino, Jr.">John D. Aquilino, Jr.</a>, USA, Editor in Chief</li></ul>
<p>See the Center for Public Integrity <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.publicintegrity.org/report.aspx?aid=753">article</a> for information it gleaned about these individuals.</p>
<h2> <span class="mw-headline" id="Donors">Donors</span></h2>
<p>"The International Foundation for the Conservation of Natural
Resources received donations from nearly three dozen funders from 2000
to 2004. Most of the money came from companies in the food, agricultural
or fur industries. Some donations came from IFCNR officials such as
David Wills, which could be a violation of Internal Revenue Service
regulations on private foundations," the Center for Public Integrity <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.publicintegrity.org/report.aspx?aid=754">reported</a> in IRS filings. [Note: The listing is available in $ order on the CPI website.]</p>
<ul><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Camanchaca&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Camanchaca (page does not exist)">Camanchaca</a>, Miami, FL $10,000</li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Caspian_Star_Caviar&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Caspian Star Caviar (page does not exist)">Caspian Star Caviar</a> New York, NY $25,000</li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Coldwater_Seafood_Corp.&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Coldwater Seafood Corp. (page does not exist)">Coldwater Seafood Corp.</a>, Norwalk, CT $5,000</li><li>Darden Restaurants, Orlando, FL, $574,000</li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Delimax_Veal_Ltd.&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Delimax Veal Ltd. (page does not exist)">Delimax Veal Ltd.</a>, Quebec, Canada $17,500</li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/General_Mills" title="General Mills">General Mills</a>, Minneapolis, MN $5,000 (parent to Darden)</li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Harbor_Seafood&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Harbor Seafood (page does not exist)">Harbor Seafood</a>, New Hyde Park, NY $10,000</li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Hvlur_HF_Hafnarf&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hvlur HF Hafnarf (page does not exist)">Hvlur HF Hafnarf</a>, Jurdur, Iceland $5,000</li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Icelandic_Seafood&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Icelandic Seafood (page does not exist)">Icelandic Seafood</a>, Cambridge, MD $5,000</li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=International_Fur_Trade_Association&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="International Fur Trade Association (page does not exist)">International Fur Trade Association</a>, Kent, United Kingdom $120,000</li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Institute_of_Cetacean_Research&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Institute of Cetacean Research (page does not exist)">Institute of Cetacean Research</a>, Tokyo, Japan $5,000</li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Japan_Whaling_Association&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Japan Whaling Association (page does not exist)">Japan Whaling Association</a>, Tokyo, Japan $11,000</li><li>Jones, Delores, Nacogdoches, TX $37,500</li><li>Jones, Helen, Nacogdoches, TX $37,500</li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Marx_Imports&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Marx Imports (page does not exist)">Marx Imports</a>, Atlantic Highlands, NJ $37,000</li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Maryland_Fur_Trappers_Association&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Maryland Fur Trappers Association (page does not exist)">Maryland Fur Trappers Association</a>, Frederick, MD $18,000</li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Monsanto" title="Monsanto">Monsanto</a> Corp., St. Louis, MO $115,000</li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Trappers_Association&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="National Trappers Association (page does not exist)">National Trappers Association</a>, Bedford, IN, $143,890</li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Nesh_Law&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Nesh Law (page does not exist)">Nesh Law</a>, Woodland Hills, CA $30,000</li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Orion_Seafood&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Orion Seafood (page does not exist)">Orion Seafood</a>, Portsmouth, NH $5,000</li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=PEAT_Institute&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="PEAT Institute (page does not exist)">PEAT Institute</a>, Poolesville, MD $17,815 (now defunct)</li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pesca_Freeze_Seafood&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Pesca Freeze Seafood (page does not exist)">Pesca Freeze Seafood</a>, Boston, MA $2,000</li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pesquera_Torres_Del_Paine_Croton&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Pesquera Torres Del Paine Croton (page does not exist)">Pesquera Torres Del Paine Croton</a> on Hudson, NY $10,000</li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Sciona_Ltd.&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sciona Ltd. (page does not exist)">Sciona Ltd.</a>, Havant Hants, United Kingdom $2,500</li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Sea_Watch_International&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sea Watch International (page does not exist)">Sea Watch International</a>, Easton, MD $5,000</li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Shaws_Southern_Bell&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Shaws Southern Bell (page does not exist)">Shaws Southern Bell</a>, Jacksonville, FL $5,000</li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Smithfield_Foods" title="Smithfield Foods">Smithfield Foods</a>, Smithfield, VA $5,000 <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.smithfieldfoods.com/Enviro/Links/">[12]</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Strauss_Veal&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Strauss Veal (page does not exist)">Strauss Veal</a>, Hales Corner, WI $5,000</li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Sustainable_Resources_International&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sustainable Resources International (page does not exist)">Sustainable Resources International</a>, Poolesville, MD $10,000</li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Sysco&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sysco (page does not exist)">Sysco</a> Corp., Houston, TX $15,000</li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=United_Producers_Union_of_Agriculture&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="United Producers Union of Agriculture (page does not exist)">United Producers Union of Agriculture</a>, Quebec, Canada $31,508</li><li>University of Southern Mississippi, Gulf Coast Research Labs, Hattiesburg, MS $10,000</li><li>White, Lori J., North Potomac, MD $47,022</li><li>Wills, David K. (<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_K._Wills&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="David K. Wills (page does not exist)">David K. Wills</a>), Poolesville, MD $8,000</li></ul>
<h2> <span class="mw-headline" id="Contact_Details">Contact Details</span></h2>
<p>IFCNR World Conservation Center
21036 Beallsville Road
Dickerson, Maryland 20842
Mail: Post Office Box 1019, Poolesville, MD 20837
Telephone: 301 990-6481
Email: IFCNR AT cs.com
URL: <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.ifcnr.com/">http://www.ifcnr.com/</a>
URL: <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.wildecology.ifcnr.com/about.cfm">http://www.wildecology.ifcnr.com/about.cfm</a>
</p>
<h2> <span class="mw-headline" id="External_links">External links</span></h2>
<h3> <span class="mw-headline" id="Profiles">Profiles</span></h3>
<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.melissadata.com/Lookups/np.asp?ein=541746221">Nonprofit Organization Lookup: International Foundation for the Conservation of Natural Resources</a>, <i>Melissa Data</i>, 1999.</li><li>IFCNR listed among <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.v-fluence.com/news/range-wars.html">"advocacy watchdog groups and related resources."</a></li><li>IFCNR listed among <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.aquaculture.ugent.be/links/org.htm">"Aquaculture organizations, associations and networks"</a> by the Laboratory of Aquaculture & Artemia, Belgium.</li></ul>
<h3> <span class="mw-headline" id="IFCNR_Publications">IFCNR Publications</span></h3>
<ul><li>Steven S. Boynton, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.iwmc.org/sustain/AnimalRights/990826.htm">Letter</a> to the <i>Christian Science Monitor</i>,
August 26, 1999: "the concept that animals have civil, natural or
political rights must, of necessity, be 'determined' by what man
rationally believes and determines those 'rights' entail."</li></ul>
<h3> <span class="mw-headline" id="Websites">Websites</span></h3>
<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.votepomboout.org/">Vote Pombo Out</a>.org provides many links to Pombo-related "lobbying" activities involving IFCNR.</li></ul>
<h3> <span class="mw-headline" id="Articles_.26_Commentary">Articles & Commentary</span></h3>
<ul><li>Matt Weiser, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ewg.org/news/story.php?id=4288">"Will the real Mr. Pombo please stand up?"</a> <i>High Country News</i> (Environmental Working Group), September 25, 2005.</li><li>Bob Williams and Steve Henn, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.publicintegrity.org/report.aspx?aid=753">"Murky
Waters: A Private Foundation Tied to Red Lobster's Parent Company Paid
for House Resource Committee Chairman Richard Pombo's Trips Abroad. Did
they violate the tax code?",</a> Center for Public Integrity and American Public Media's Marketplace, October 18, 2005.</li><li>Mike Taugher, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/news/local/crime_courts/12940045.htm">"Pombo's trips paid by group called illegal,"</a> <i>Contra Costa Times</i>, October 19, 2005.</li></ul>
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<div id="catlinks" class="catlinks"><div id="mw-normal-catlinks" class="mw-normal-catlinks"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Special:Categories" title="Special:Categories">Categories</a>: <ul><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Category:Scandals" title="Category:Scandals">Scandals</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Category:Corruption" title="Category:Corruption">Corruption</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Category:Organizations" title="Category:Organizations">Organizations</a></li></ul></div></div><p>===</p><p>In October 2005, the Center for Public Integrity reported that Pombo had taken two overseas junkets to New Zealand and Japan. Both trips were
paid for by a group called the International Foundation for
Conservation of Natural Resources, which receives funding from
bioengineering firms such as Monsanto and also from pro-whaling
interests. Pombo did not report the trip on his income tax form, though
the IRS considers overseas junkets gifts on which taxes must be paid.
“I really have no idea what is going on with that foundation,” said
Pombo, when confronted with the report. “Obviously I will have my
accountant check into this.” Even by the high standards of congressional
evasiveness, this was a spectacular bout of memory loss. Pombo was a
founder of the International Foundation for Conservation of Natural
Resources and served as its chairman until July of 2005.
Then there’s the Jack Abramoff connection. Like Bush, Pombo pretended
to have only the foggiest recollection of the beleaguered super
lobbyist. “I think I met the guy a few times,” Pombo said last month.
“But he never stepped foot in my office. Never lobbied me about
anything.”</p><p></p><div id="mw-content-text" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" lang="en"><p><b>Stephen S. Boynton</b>, Esq., is President Emeritus of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/International_Foundation_for_the_Conservation_of_Natural_Resources" title="International Foundation for the Conservation of Natural Resources">International Foundation for the Conservation of Natural Resources</a> (IFCNR).
According to <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.lobbywatch.org/profile1.asp?PrId=65&page=I">LobbyWatch.org</a>, "Boynton's biotech advocacy role follows on from such previous campaigns as a clandestine anti-<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bill_Clinton" title="Bill Clinton">Clinton</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.salon.com/news/1998/06/cov_08news.html">campaign</a> that helped bolster the legal efforts of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Paula_Jones&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Paula Jones (page does not exist)">Paula Jones</a>
in her sexual harassment lawsuit against the then President where
'critical assistance was provided by Stephen S. Boynton, a conservative
Virginia attorney.'
"In that campaign Boynton drew on long-standing ties to <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Right-wing" title="Right-wing">rightwing</a> billionaire <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Richard_Mellon_Scaife" title="Richard Mellon Scaife">Richard Mellon Scaife</a> and was a <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.salon.com/news/1998/03/cov_17news.html">key player</a> in Scaife's anti-Clinton <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arkansas_Project&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Arkansas Project (page does not exist)">Arkansas Project</a> in which $1.8 million, was 'paid out in <i>legal expenses</i>
with no further explanation of what sort of legal services were
provided... records indicate that the money went to conservative lawyer
Stephen Boynton and... <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/David_Henderson" title="David Henderson" class="mw-redirect">David Henderson</a>,
who in turn funneled some of the money to various anti-Clinton
operatives.' A certain 'lack of documentation' to support the money
flowing to Boynton and Henderson has been alleged."</p>
<h2> <span class="mw-headline" id="Greenscam">Greenscam</span></h2>
<p>The <i>EcoMole</i> at <i>Alternative's Reader</i>, "a free e-zine from <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alternatives_for_Simple_Living&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Alternatives for Simple Living (page does not exist)">Alternatives for Simple Living</a> (Issue #2), June, 2002, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.simpleliving.org/Archives/Review/Review02B.html">reported</a> that</p>
<dl><dd>"Stephen S. Boynton ushered in the new year with a speech that
seemed to possess a familiar environmental stance. 'Our human population
is expanding. Our land and water masses are not,' he declared. But
within moments, Boynton was assailing 'environmental and animal rights
advocacy groups rampaging about the globe destroying field tests of...
[genetically modified] crops' and using 'the tactics of strong-arm
extortionists and thugs against retailers such as Trader Joe's.'</dd></dl>
<dl><dd>"Boynton, who is identified as the President of the International
Foundation for the Conservation of Natural Resources (a name
suspiciously close to the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/International_Union_for_the_Conservation_of_Nature" title="International Union for the Conservation of Nature">International Union for the Conservation of Nature</a>),
lambasted so-called 'environmentalists' who use 'tortuous logic' to
criticize 'agricultural and medical biotech research, consumption of
meat or the use of fur, private firearms ownership, capitalism... the
demise of economic globalization, etc.'</dd></dl>
<dl><dd>"According to Boynton, these green-minded zealots push 'harsh
ideologies calling for strict vegetarian (vegan) life styles' and
condemn 'modern science's attempts to feed, clothe, shelter and heal an
ever more population-strained world.'</dd></dl>
<dl><dd>"Why do these enviros take their responsibility for nature 'too
seriously'? According to Boynton, 'evidence exists that many within
their ranks thrive on the power, wealth and popularity that comes with
the celebrity of posturing as the Earth's and its animals' messiah.'</dd></dl>
<dl><dd>"And who is Stephen Boynton? In his speech, he describes himself as
'an advocate for the wise and sustainable use of Nature's resources.'
The phrase '<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Wise_Use" title="Wise Use" class="mw-redirect">Wise Use</a>' is the tip-off. The EcoMole has dug up the fact that Boynton was one of the two operatives who ran the <i>American Spectator</i>'s 'Arkansas Project' (which resorted to financial and sexual innuendo in a failed attempt to drive President <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bill_Clinton" title="Bill Clinton">Bill Clinton</a> from office). The $2.4-million Arkansas Project was funded by billionaire <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Conservative&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Conservative (page does not exist)">conservative</a> Richard Mellon Scaife."</dd></dl>
<h2> <span class="mw-headline" id="Affiliations">Affiliations</span></h2>
<ul><li>Washington Counsel for the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Trappers_Association&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="National Trappers Association (page does not exist)">National Trappers Association</a> (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.furcommission.com/news/newsF03a.htm">2001</a>), which has been a <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.publicintegrity.org/report.aspx?aid=754">major contributor</a> to Boynton's IFCNR.</li></ul>
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