The war on trees and what it means for disease
The Climate Question
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The Importance of Local People in Deforestation
We've heard how deforestation is causing our planet to warm and making pandemics more likely. So I guess that leaves the question, what do we do about it? When I speak to independent experts everywhere, so what they tell me is that if you don't involve people, local people especially, then your plan is bound to fail. One striking example in this is the smash hit story in Nepal, the country I come from. There are many hundreds of community forests there. Many forests are now given to communities. They have been taken care ofIt and they have kind of earned their livelihood from those forests. Even when Ebola was raining, we were still eating our monkeys. We buy the
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