An orangutan in a swath of jungle destroyed by fire in Indonesia. The palm oil industry is shrinking the animals’ habitat, but a CBI might be an alternative for workers. Paying people living in fragile forests €5 a day could be the best way to halt biodiversity loss, a new study suggests.
Similar to the concept of a universal basic income, a conservation basic income (CBI) is an unconditional cash payment given to people living in protected areas or alongside endangered species.
Variations of this idea are already having transformative effects on ecosystems around the world. In Costa Rica in the […]
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