Green Girl

I found a fascinating article on News Food, an Italian site chronicling problems of world hunger. The article “Safety Nets,” which was prepared by the environmental research group Equilibrium, suggests that regions with well-managed protected areas not only serve as environmental stewards, but they also offer many benefits to area people living in poverty. Because poverty is a multi-faceted problem that includes issues far beyond inability to make enough money, these protected areas encourage people who are more dependent on natural resources to share those resources, to find spiritual fulfillment through caring for a common goal, and gives them access to clean water supplies and better productivity for home-grown crops.

Isn’t that lovely? As much as we put into caring for the earth, we get it right back…

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