“Madagascar Declaration” Focuses African Development Policies On Value Of Nature

Ambitious goals for reducing poverty and disease in Africa are unreachable without radical changes that make biodiversity and its socioeconomic value the foundation for development policies, a global environmental conference concluded Saturday. The symposium organized by Conservation International, titled “Defying Nature’s End: The African Context,” produced a five-page “Madagascar Declaration” that challenges traditional aid and development models for the world’s […]