or protection against nature conservation

[GoodTaste]

I don't understand "or protection against nature conservation". The phrase sounds clueless. Whose protection? Protection of what? I have no clue. The best guess I've got is that it might refer to "the protection of your logging activities." I am not sure.

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“Dear logging companies, should you ever need to justify your destructive and extractive (illegal) activities in the Amazon + SE Asia, or protection against nature conservation NGO’s [nongovernmental organizations] or legal action, please refer to the following paper in @CurrentBiology,” primatologist Adriano Lameira of the University of Warwick wrote in one of several sarcastic tweets about the paper.

Source: Science
Claim that coconut oil is worse for biodiversity than palm oil sparks furious debate
By Dyna Rochmyaningsih Jul. 17, 2020
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/202...e-biodiversity-palm-oil-sparks-furious-debate

 

[teechar]

should if you (logging companies) ever need to justify your destructive and extractive (illegal) activities in the Amazon + SE Asia, or protection against nature conservation NGO’s, [nongovernmental organizations] or legal action, please refer to the following paper

In the above, "should" means if.

I added the writing in blue to clarify the sentence.