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The locals are hearing a lot about protecting the wildlife and the forests these days. For years the 2.5 million acres of rain forest and the wildlife that lives in it--including tigers, leopards, barking deer and gibbons--were left alone while Cambodia was at war. The Cardamoms were used...
Wilderness, in the elegant words of the 1964 U.S. Wilderness Act, is land "where man himself is a visitor and does not remain." Wilderness areas are critical for protecting biodiversity: tropical rain forests alone, which cover 6% of the planet's land area, are home to more than half of...
"It sounds counterintuitive, but you have to build economies around protection," says Gustavo Fonseca, senior vice president for science at Conservation International. With 6 billion people and counting, the world is too crowded to fence off wilderness areas and ignore the impact on human livelihood. Communities must be able to...
How 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...
Here are some of the most promising strategies being applied to conserve wilderness areas around the world: