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An Answer to Our Prayers

AN INTERFAITH INVESTMENT GROUP is conservation's new patron

By Nancy Bazilchuk
January-March 2005 (Vol. 6, No. 1)

The Bible says it took just seven days to create the world. But the Lutheran Diocese of Västerås, one of Sweden's largest, knows it takes decades to grow a healthy forest that can then be harvested in a sustainable way. And they're willing to put considerable financial capital behind a US$32 million plan to reforest more than 90,000 ha in northern Mozambique, transforming the now-barren land to a verdant forest.

Fully half of the land will be protected as a conservation area, while the remaining forests



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