How do you save a rainforest? Create a national park, hardcore conservationists would say. That isn't practical, though, if you're a nation with 45 million acres of rainforest-an area about the size of Washington state-and a per capita income of just over $8,000 a year. "A tree left standing is not valuable to a family who can't feed their children three square meals a day," says Pradeepa Bholanath, head of planning and development for the Guyana Forestry Commission.
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