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Three Innovations That Might Save the Amazon

By Meg Symington

The World Wildlife Fund's senior director for the Amazon on smart new strategies for protecting the rainforest.

With each passing day, we lose more of our world's forests to deforestation and degradation.

But the good news is that in recent years, we've become considerably more sophisticated in how we try to protect the Amazon and other vulnerable areas.

While there are thousands of projects in the works worldwide, here we outline three of the best, most innovative strategies that give us hope — and have produced tangible results. Taken together, these strategies can contribute to an Amazon with not only healthy ecosystems, but also the conditions for falling poverty, sustainable...

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