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But what if you could prove that the forest itself was a potential cash cow, and that leaving it alone might make more money than cutting it down?
That’s the premise of a new report [The Value of Forest Ecosystem Services to Developing Economies] from the Center on Global Development by the economist Katrina Mullan, who quantifies the value of forest ecosystems in an effort to complicate the traditional binary between conservation and development. Her hope is that more people will see the immediate benefits of conservation.
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