CALHOUN COUNTY, Fla. (WCTV) – One of the largest private landowners in Florida gave WCTV’s Capital City Correspondent Matt Hoffmann a tour of an acreage making money with conservation.
On Thursday, WCTV toured some of our most important lands, including forests along the Apalachicola River that protect Tallahassee from hurricanes that come from the Gulf.
The tour was arranged by a company called Aurora Sustainable Lands. Cakey Worthington, vice president of the company, said they make money by selling carbon credits to larger companies like Microsoft.
“While the carbon program we enroll in is a 40 year voluntary program, through this deal with Microsoft, we’re actually helping make sure that these forests here in the Apalachicola River Basin are going to be managed for the climate for over a hundred years, and they’re going to be remaining as forests in perpetuity,” Worthington said…