Developments
A sustainable future for southern Africa's community rangelands?
Namaqualand, South Africa is, in terms of bio-diversity, definitely a hot spot. The region is also home to many pastoralist peoples, people whose communal land use system is now widely perceived to be the greatest threat to the fragile wealth of plant diversity....
Wildlife tourism - spreading the benefits
Like many rural communities across Africa, the Maasai and Kamba people who live alongside Kenya's national parks are under pressure to change their traditional ways of life. Evidence suggests that the poorest lose the most. No wonder that many who live on the edges of national parks are unable to see any benefits from wildlife...
Sustaining Albania's wild herb exports
Over the past decade, western European nations have almost doubled their imports of medicinal herbs, many of which come from poorer central and eastern European countries. Few of the plant species involved are cultivated but an Albanian project is one example of attempts being made to develop a more sustainable industry...
Over recent years, international logging companies have stripped the best of the once dense forests that covered the mountainous interior of the islands of Vanuatu but the local inhabitants have little to show for it. Fortunately, local action by an NGO, could be the basis for saving what remains of the forest cover...
At a busy passenger truck stop in Bolivia, men, women and children crowd around a small stall covered in leafy material. Several people ask questions, while others just stand and listen. The man behind the stall talks animatedly but...
