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'Community ownership' might be the best way to fight deforestation

'Community ownership' might be the best way to fight deforestation

Forests owned, managed and governed by their communities naturally preserve biodiversity and have very low levels of deforestation.
Kenya: Bees help indigenous Yiaku defend and monitor their ancestral forest
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Kenya: Bees help indigenous Yiaku defend and monitor their ancestral forest

The Yiaku's use of beekeeping and other traditional practices to conserve their forest has earned them recognition and autonomy from the Kenyan government, which in 2008 granted the community full responsibility for managing the forest.

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