Growth of U.S. Conservation Movement

Saving the rain forests has become a celebrity cause; it is politically and socially correct to do things which will save the rain forest from destruction by loggers and slash-and-burn techniques used by farmers to clear the land. At the forefront of this movement, are nonprofit corporations. These nonprofit Corporations have been set up, in the United States, to market products and raw materials acquired from the rain forest, in ways that can sustain production, without harming the total biodiversity of the rain forest. These products are marketed to producers and consumers in the developed countries. To succeed in saving the rain forests, the economic consequences

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s as a middleman for products which have been sustainably harvested from the forest. It charges a five percent premium on all products and returns the full value of the product to the people who harvested it. In this way, Cultural Survival encourages native people to protect the forest and gives them an economic incentive to keep the forests intact. Cultural Survival is also, at the forefront, having the local harvesters share in the profits made by the company which utilizes forest produce in their products (Clay 305). Cultural Survival sells products, from the rain forest, to a diverse group of companies. The need for multiple end uses, of a product, gives stability to the international market for the product. Keeping in mind good business practices, Cultural Survival encourages local indigenous people to find various products they can sustainably harvest from the forest and market. Many companies, which purchase raw materials from Cultural Survival, also, directly provide funds for the purchase of rain forest land. Murky land titles, and government policies often mean what is thought to be preserved does not get preserved (Nations 196-7). In 1989, Charles Peters, of the New York Botanical Garden's Institute of Economi
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