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CONSERVATION CONCESSIONS Conservation groups are leasing or buying timber concessions in endangered areas and placing them off limits to logging. They are surprisingly affordable, in part because profit margins on felled timber in remote areas can be low, which means there are few potential buyers. The Nature Conservancy bought the...
To finance the reserve, Conservation International is setting up an offshore trust fund, using the annual returns to pay the reserve's running costs. In exchange for this long-term commitment, the government last month declared 1 million acres of the Cardamoms permanently off limits to logging, canceling six concessions...
Efforts like these tend to work only when there is constant on-the-ground monitoring, environmental groups say. Otherwise, funding is often diverted to other projects or siphoned off by corrupt officials. "The difference between success and failure in protecting wild areas is presence," says Alan Rabinowitz, director of science...
DEBT-FOR-NATURE SWAPS Most countries with surviving wilderness also happen to be relatively poor and indebted to the developed world. In 1984 Thomas Lovejoy, then with the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), had the idea of converting vice to virtue by buying off or forgiving debt if developing countries gave...
A survey by Conservation International found 37 wilderness areas left that have at least 70% of their original vegetation intact, are at least 10,000 sq km in size and have a human population of no more than 5 people per sq km. These "last wild places," as the group...