Local Voices, Local Choices: The Tacare Approach to Community-Led Conservation [Hardcover]

Discover the stories behind Jane Goodalls visionary approach to community-led conservation.

You know of Jane Goodalls work with wild chimpanzees and her lifelong career advocating for environmental justice. But just as transformative is her work empowering local communities that live on the edge of human settlement to act to protect their natural resourcesor to risk losing them forever.

Local Voices, Local Choices: The Tacare Approach to Community-Led Conservationis the story of the Jane Goodall Institutes holistic approach to conservation, which puts the local people in charge of preserving their surrounding ecosystems. Rather than conservationists leading the effort and imposing their solutions, local communities that live in the affected regions make their own decisions. Working with science and technology and with the support of conservationists, these communities grow to understand their human impact on the environment. By choosing to adopt sustainable livelihoods, they decide their own path into the future, finding ways to balance their environmental impact with their communities needs.

Story by story,Local Voices, Local Choicesbrings readers into the diverse perspectives behind this approach to community-driven conservationnot only those of JGI staff and program partners but also, and equally, those of the local people who lead these initiatives.

Read about:

• The origins of the Tacare approach, originally designed as a 1994 reforestation project with an abbreviation pronounced ta-CAR-reh
• A retired village member keeping the knowledge of medicinal plants alive in his community
• Spiritual and cultural story-holders who are vital to the recording and preservation of their traditional ecological knowledge
• Local people participating as forest monitors, village health workers, beekeepers, small-business owners, and educators of the next generation
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