Deforestation happens because the tropical rainforests are misperceived by tropical rainforest nations to have little value for both nation’s broader development goals and large agro, mining, hydroeltrical dams and other traditional destructive timber ext
Meanwhile tropical rainforests have crucial value for millions of indigenous peoples and millions of other people who are inhabiting them.
The key to saving the tropical rainforests is to increase their value in absolute and relative economic terms.
