From The Rainforest Foundation UK.

• Author: Counsell, Simon
• Position: FROM READERS - Letter to the Editor

Mac Chapin raises some very important points in his article "A Challenge to Conservationists."

Our own experience as an organization that has worked for the last 15 years to help indigenous communities throughout the tropics to secure their territories and protect their environment has been that ill-considered strict conservation projects are increasingly undermining the efforts of indigenous peoples. Indeed, many delegates to a recent international conference of indigenous representatives...