The Enviva Forest Conservation Fund (the “Fund”) today announced that it is making $100,000 available
for the 2018 fiscal year to support exceptional projects that emerge outside of the normal annual cycle for
the Fund’s grantmaking. Applications for this one-time funding opportunity will be considered through
January 2019. Individual awards up to $50,000 will be considered for projects meeting the fund criteria.
Those criteria may be viewed by visiting envivaforestfund.org. Ecological quality of a tract and associated
conservation values particularly for cypress-tupelo, Atlantic white cedar, pocosins, and/or Carolina Bays
will be given strong consideration.

“Private landowners and their partners must sometimes act quickly to protect vitally important forests,”
said Jennifer Jenkins, Vice President and Chief Sustainability Officer of Enviva. “Personal or other
circumstances may require a family forest owner to seek funding outside the Enviva Forest Conservation
Fund’s annual grant cycle, and we wanted to address this need.”

The Enviva Forest Conservation Fund is a $5 million, 10-year program established by Enviva Holdings, LP in
December 2015 to permanently protect environmentally sensitive bottomland and wetland forests.
Administered by the U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities (the “Endowment”), the Fund awards
grants annually to nonprofit organizations and government agencies for conservation projects in North
Carolina and Virginia.

“There are opportunities to protect tracts having high ecological and conservation values that may not
lend themselves to the current funding cycle. Having the flexibility to support those opportunities could
help avoid the threat that a particular parcel will be converted to non-forest use or miss the opportunity
to protect an area that links to other conservation plans,” said Alicia Cramer, Senior Vice President at the
Endowment.

The Fund’s goal is to be a catalyst for investments in forest and habitat conservation in the North Carolina
coastal plain and southeastern Virginia region. Three years into the planned 10-year partnership, eight
projects have been funded with a total commitment of over $1.5 million. When these projects are
completed, the Fund will have protected an estimated 14,000 acres of sensitive wetland forest and other
habitats.

Follow these links to the application: usendowment.org/rfps/envivafund or envivaforestfund.org

To learn more about the Enviva Conservation Fund, please visit envivaforestfund.org.

About the Enviva Forest Conservation Fund
The Enviva Forest Conservation Fund is a $5 million, 10-year program established by Enviva Holdings, LP in
December 2015 to permanently protect environmentally sensitive bottomland and wetland forests.
Administered by the U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities, the Fund awards grants annually to
nonprofit organizations and government agencies for conservation projects in North Carolina and Virginia.
The next grant cycle will begin in late 2018. To learn more about the Enviva Conservation Fund, please
visit envivaforestfund.org. In 2018, the Fund expanded into southeastern North Carolina to include
additional high-priority conservation areas. Now most counties in the North Carolina coastal plain as well
as counties in southeastern Virginia are eligible for the Fund.

About the U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities
The U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities (the Endowment) is a not-for-profit public charity
working collaboratively with partners in the public and private sectors to advance systemic,
transformative, and sustainable change for the health and vitality of the nation’s working forests and
forest-reliant communities. To learn more about the Endowment, please visit our website at
www.usendowment.org.

For more information contact:
Alicia Cramer, Senior Vice President
U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities
alicia@usendowment.org
(205) 792-8650