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Developing New Conservation Tools:
Conservation Concessions
In recent years, the conservation community has focused on indirect methods of conserving tropical forests in nations wishing to develop those resources for economic ends. CEP is developing a new mechanism, the "conservation concession," which aims to combine conservation and development in a more direct way: concession payments are made directly to the government or citizens to compensate for revenue or employment lost by agreeing not to exploit a given resource. This mechanism will provide countries with an alternative means to capitalize on owning vast tracts of globally important tropical forest without the need to resort to destructive development. Conservation concessions will help create a market that will allow conservation to compete directly with extractive industries for the rights to natural resources.
Conservation International Creates New Market Mechanism to Conserve Global Forests
WASHINGTON, D.C.- Conservation International, working with the government of Guyana, has established an unprecedented and powerful new tool for biodiversity conservation, by obtaining an exploratory lease of 200,000 acres of pristine forest in Guyana as the world's first "conservation concession."
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| |  | | Bioscience publishes four articles by CABS authors on defining strategies to create, maintain, and fund protected areas.
View/Download AbstractsThe latest issue of Species, newsletter of IUCN-SSC, is available. It details the state of over 100 species and includes contributions by CABS authors.
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