HOW CONSERVATION STRATEGIES CONTRIBUTE TO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

The world is now so tied together by flows of energy, information, and commodities, that action in one part of it is likely to have implications for many other parts. Numerous biological resources “particularly wildlife and forests “are being depleted more by foreign demand than by direct local consumption. Money earned by depleting resources is then often invested in imported industrial products, which themselves may have had negative environmental impacts in the country of their production. As examples we may cite certain pesticides which, on being banned in the countries of their production, are exported to others. © 1990, Foundation for Environmental Conservation. All rights reserved.