A Virtuous Cycle for Conservation (Arancha González, John E. Scanlon, Project-Syndicate)

Poor and rural people around the world rely on plants and animals for shelter, food, income, and medicine. In fact, the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 15) on sustainable ecosystems acknowledges many developing societies’ close relationship with nature when it calls for increased “capacity of local communities to pursue sustainable livelihood opportunities.” But how is this to be achieved?

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/wildlife-trade-rural-poverty-by-arancha-gonz-lez-and-john-e--scanlon-2016-10