Nature reserves can be bad for animals and good for people. That’s the counterintuitive bottom line of a new study showing that conservation dollars spent on infrastructure in and around these parks attract new residents, who in turn engage in illegal poaching and deforestation.
Nature Parks: Loved to Death? — Stokstad 2008 (703): 1 — ScienceNOW
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