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...Cardamoms, the most damage was being caused by hunting. Under an agreement with the Cambodian government, Conservation International pays for 125 rangers to patrol the area to stop poachers and protect against illegal logging. The group is also establishing agricultural and health projects to help local people replace lost income. "The people have been living off illegal forest activity, so going back to farming is less money," explains David Mead, who runs the program in Cambodia. "They don't like that." One plan involves buying draft animals to help locals plow rice paddies so that they will no longer need...
...best to protect wilderness? Since each region is unique, strategies have to account for local conditions, says Rabinowitz, who helped set up a jaguar reserve in Belize and a national park in Myanmar. In Hkakabo Razi National Park in northern Myanmar, Rabinowitz discovered that locals were hunting wildlife, particularly red pandas and leaf deer, in far greater numbers than were needed for food. People were swapping the skins with Chinese traders for salt, which does not occur naturally in the area. So Rabinowitz instituted a salt-distribution program. At a cost of less than $5,000 a year...
Americans are an optimistic people, especially when it comes to protecting our environment and public health. Our nation has made extraordinary environmental progress over the past 30 years, which helped, not hurt our economy. Americans Americans are an optimistic people--especially when it comes to protecting our environment and public health. Our nation has made extraordinary environmental progress over the past 30 years, which helped, not hurt our economy. Americans believe renewed leadership and technological innovation can once again protect our air and water and create a strong economy for all our citizens...
First and foremost, we must lead at home, where Americans' unrivaled ability to drive economic growth through innovation can protect the environment and create jobs. Why not set a national goal of having 20% of our electricity come from domestic alternative and renewable sources, including wind and solar power, by the year 2020? Isn't that a vision worthy of America? Developing new energy technologies can create thousands of good new jobs. Renewable energy can be generated, transported and consumed in America. And we can export our technology. I don't think we should take a backseat to the Germans...
...making a comeback in this impoverished region, thanks largely to the Instituto de Pesquisas Ecologicas (Institute for Ecological Research), an organization co-founded in 1992 by Padua and her husband Claudio, a primatologist at the University of Brasilia. IPE's mission is as simple as it is ambitious: to protect--and insofar as possible--reconnect the last precious remnants of the Mata Atlantica, the great forest that once covered virtually the whole of eastern Brazil...