The costs of exclusion: recognizing a role for local communities in biodiversity conservation

PLoS Biol. 2007 Oct 23;5(11):e289. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050289.

Abstract

Two cross-cultural, community-based conservation initiatives in Borneo and Papua New Guinea incorporate poverty eradication into their biodiversity conservation programs in areas harboring some of the world's most endangered species.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Biodiversity*
  • Borneo
  • Conservation of Natural Resources* / economics
  • Ecology
  • Humans
  • Macropodidae
  • Papua New Guinea
  • Pongo pygmaeus
  • Residence Characteristics*