Date: February 28, 2008
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For hundreds of millions of people, biodiversity is about eating, staying healthy, and finding shelter. Meeting these people’s basic needs should receive greater priority in the conservation agenda.
Wild and semi-wild plants and animals contribute significantly to nutrition, health care, income, and culture in developing countries, andthe poorest and most vulnerable people often rely on those resources most. Depleting those resources or making them inaccessible can impoverish these people evenfurther. ‘Pro-poor conservation’—that is, conservation that aims to support poor people—explicitly seeks to address basic human needs.