Nature Reserves Attract Humans, But At A Cost To Biodiversity ...Environmental News Network: 2 views since Monday, July 7, 2008 at 10:27 AMRather than suppressing local communities in developing nations, nature reserves attract human settlement, according to a new study by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley. In an analysis of 306 rural protected areas in 45 countries in Africa and Latin America, the researchers found that, on average, the rate of human population growth along the borders of protected areas was ...
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