According to the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, in the next 40 years, tropical forests are among the biomes projected to lose habitat and species most rapidly. Yet these biomes provide numerous ecosystem services that confer local, regional and global economic benefits. One of these forests,...

In recognition of the livelihood needs of local people that undermine non-use conservation objectives, protected areas are now said to have assumed a mandate to go beyond just biodiversity conservation to improving the welfare of local people through the provision of economic benefits across...