Paying people to see wildlife: Inside a $1-per-hectare conservation experiment in Borneo

Mongabay
May 12, 2026, 6:34 am125 ptsTrending
Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. Stop telling people to protect wildlife. Start paying them instead. That’s the idea in a new experiment in Kapuas Hulu district, in Indonesia’s West Kalimantan province,…

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