Before I left for Brazil a family friend gave me a newspaper clipping, "Can We Be As Smart As Bats," on the Amazon Rain Forest and then much to my surprise it turned out to be a strikingly similar topic to my research here at Imazon.No, I am not studying bats, but I am researching incentives to avoid deforestation and encourage sustainable development in the Amazon. So I invite you to read this New York Times article and imagine the day when the act of not cutting down a tree is more valuable than removing it.
Picture Source: "NASA Earth Observatory." Available at: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NasaNews/ReleaseImages/20040727/05_Forest_burning.jpg
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