Forest conservation approaches must recognise the rights of local people
Wednesday, August 9, 2017 - 08:32
in Earth & Climate
Until the 1980s, biodiversity conservation in the tropics focused on the "fines and fences" approach: creating protected areas from which local people were forcibly excluded. More recently, conservationists have embraced the notion of "win-win": a dream world where people and nature thrive side by side.