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Forest conservation can have greater ecological impacts by allowing sustainable harvesting

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Phys.org

Publication Date
2018-01-30

New research at the University of Missouri has found that forest owners at greater risk of illegally cutting trees from their forests prefer to participate in conservation programs that allow sustainable timber harvesting. The findings of the study, conducted by Francisco Aguilar and Phillip Mohebalian, could be used to craft conservation contracts that are more likely to be accepted by forest owners and might succeed in preventing deforestation and forest degradation.

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https://phys.org/news/2018-01-forest-greater-ecological-impacts-sustainable.html