Q+A: Community forests in China's Sichuan province play a role in panda conservation
In the misty mountains of Pingwu County in China’s province of Sichuan, community forests could offer promising solutions to the dual problem of rural poverty and habitat loss. A recent case study by Tian Yongzhen and Xu Chen — two international natural resource management students at the University of British Columbia (UBC) — argues that Pingwu’s community forests and a blended approach to ecological conservation and poverty alleviation are having an impact. In the area, forest plots are allocated to local families and professional collectives for a period of 70 years under China...
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