One of the biggest dilemmas for conservationists is that preserving the environment often conflicts with the needs of the poorest communities who live there.
In many areas, forests of outstanding biodiversity are being chopped down by poor subsistence farmers in need of firewood and land to grow the food they need to survive, ecologists say.
Enter Payments for Environmental Services, or PES, an idea gaining popularity among conservationists as a way of allowing communities to benefit from conservation of their environment.
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