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Land Conservation In Central America

Decent Essays

After decades of conflict, countries across Central America emerged from the 1980s with a renewed possibility. Among the major accomplishments of that era was land reform and the creation of large reserves that aside large swaths of land for the sake of biodiversity.
Hundreds of thousands of acres were placed within their borders in the name of conservation.

According the forest activists, often overlooked was the role indigenous people played in preserving these habitats in the first place. Scant attention was paid to the rights of the indigenous people living within the boundaries of these conservation zones who earned their livelihoods through hunting and foraging, farming and forest resources. At times, restrictions placed on

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