Improving rural health care reduces illegal logging and conserves carbon in a tropical forest.

ABSTRACT: Tropical forest loss currently exceeds forest gain, leading to a net greenhouse gas emission that exacerbates global climate change. This has sparked scientific debate on how to achieve natural climate solutions. Central to this debate is whether sustainably managing forests and protected areas will deliver global climate mitigation benefits, while ensuring local peoples' health and well-being. Here, we evaluate the 10-y impact of a human-centered solution to achieve natural climate mitigation through reductions in illegal logging in rural Borneo: an intervention aimed at expanding health care access and use for communities living near a national park, with clinic discounts offsetting costs historically met through illegal logging. Conservation, education, and alternative livelihood progra

SUBMITTER: Jones IJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7668090 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature