What makes indigenous peoples conserve or degrade biodiversity? The experience of the Wachiperi of the Peruvian rainforest provides key elements to understanding indigenous environmental behavior, which is the basis for the design of sound conservation strategies. The reasons why indigenous communities end up degrading or conserving natural resources are addressed in an accessible manner in this book, filling a critical gap in current knowledge about the socioeconomic drivers of biodiversity loss, and the rise of community-based conservation.
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