Old Practices, New Solutions: Indigenous Groups Sign Up For Conservation

Old Practices, New Solutions: Indigenous Groups Sign Up For Conservation   Although thousands of miles apart, the lush Kaya Kinondo forest on Kenya's eastern coast and the sprawling Cerro Chango reserve in the hills of southern Mexico have more in common than one might think. Both are exceptionally diverse habitats, teeming with plant and animal species, but, more unusually, the two areas are also administered by indigenous communities ( the Digo-Mijikenda and Chinanteco peoples ), whose...

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