IT's TIME TO GIVENATURE BACKTO LOCAL PEOPLE

摘要

Global conservation projects and state-run national parks don't always work. Often local people are better at stopping deforestation, so why not hand protected areas over to them, asks Fred Pearce.NSB icholas Fredericks is a thoroughly modern memberof Wapichan tribe in southern Guyana. A cowboy in his youth, and now a community leader, he broke open a beer as we mm watched the 2014 World Cup on a communal, solar-powered TV in his remote forest village in the former British colony. His voice washoarse from cheering on Brazil. But suddenly he turned away from the screen, looked towards the trees and became deadly serious. "These forests are our life, but they are being taken from us," he told me quietly. "We have to protect them for the future of our people."