Carbon Payments Help Protect Threatened Tropical Mammals
Friday, June 5, 2009 - 08:21
in Earth & Climate
A new report provides compelling evidence that paying to conserve billions of tons of carbon stored in tropical forests could also protect orangutans, pygmy elephants, and other wildlife at risk of extinction. The study is one of the first to offer quantitative evidence linking the drive to reduce carbon emissions from forests with the push to preserve threatened mammal biodiversity.