Payments to Protect Forests Are Worth It (1 of 1) (IMAGE)

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Payments to Protect Forests Are Worth It (1 of 1)

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Participants in the PES program receiving their payments for conserving trees. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the July 21, 2017 issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by S. Jayachandran at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL, and colleagues was titled, 'Cash for carbon: A randomized trial of payments for ecosystem services to reduce deforestation.'

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Photo courtesy of Chimpanzee Sanctuary and Wildlife Conservation Trust

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