News Headline

Cut emissions and poverty, not trees, by letting locals manage forests

Source
Reuters

Publication Date
2019-05-06

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Giving local communities the responsibility to manage forests - which are shrinking worldwide - could help ease poverty and deforestation, scientists said on Monday in what they described as one of the largest studies of its kind.

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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-nepal-climatechange-forest/cut-emissions-and-poverty-not-trees-by-letting-locals-manage-forests-idUSKCN1SC1GP