Is Poverty Relevant to Conservation?

摘要

Have you ever wondered how the other half lives? That is, how do nearly 3 billion people scratch out a living on the equivalent of less than 2 dollar a day?A few months ago, I traveled to Sierra Leone, the West African nation with the miserable distinction of being dead last three years in a row on the U.N.'s Human Development Index. When I arrived, a friend who runs a wildlife sanctuary confided that his chimpanzees live longer than the average Sierra Leonean.