Shifting the Power: Decentralization and Biodiversity conservation

In the last few decades, conservationists and natural resource managers have moved away from trying to keep people out of pretected areas and toward developing productive relationships with resource users. Conservationsists now study and vigorously debate the extend to which other human activities should be included in conservation programs and sites. Most new conservation - oriented decision making about natural resources management and benefits and by extension about biodiversity. ( 2 copies)