Word: wildness
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...front fee and annual payments of 15[cents] an acre. Even where loggers cannot be bought out, the damage they do can be reduced. In the Congo the Wildlife Conservation Society has persuaded the German firm CIB to feed its workers beef and chicken instead of wild bush meat from its logging concessions next to Nouable-Ndoki National Park...
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 and exploration at the Wildlife Conservation Society, based at the Bronx Zoo in New York City. "The ones that fail are where a project is set up and walked away from...
...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 protected status to some valuable wild area. Conservation International implemented the first debt-for-nature swap in Bolivia's Beni Biosphere Reserve in 1987. The U.S. Congress gave the strategy a boost in 1998 with the Tropical Rainforest Conservation Act, which authorized the President to reduce some countries' debt in exchange for forest protection. Governments...
...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 calls them, cover 46% of the land surface of the planet. With all the resources and strategies at our disposal, much of this precious territory can still be saved...
...effort to save the Pontal's forest is still evolving, and much work remains. But thanks to the Paduas, the future of both people and wild animals in this ecologically fragile region is looking more hopeful than hopeless...