Some of the World's Poorest People Are Bearing the Costs of Tropical Forest Conservation
Thursday, July 5, 2018 - 18:07
in Earth & Climate
Researchers from Bangor University in the UK and the University of Antananarivo in Madagascar show that new conservation restrictions in Madagascar bring very significant costs to local people. In their paper published in PeerJ - the Journal of Life & Environmental Sciences, the researchers estimate that 27,000 people have been negatively impacted by the conservation project.