What happens when a crocodile scientist realizes that saving the rainforest depends on helping local people make a living?
In this Explorer’s Way clip, Olivier BEHRA shares the turning point: understanding that unless rural communities had a sustainable income source, they would be pushed toward logging, poaching, burning and other destructive uses of the forest.
➡️ That insight sparked a search for a local medicinal plant that could be ethically commercialized, creating value chains where protecting biodiversity and supporting livelihoods became two sides of the same leaf.
This is exactly what the EBI Network is dedicated to: building biodiversity-positive, community-centered value chains that make standing forests more valuable than cut ones.
If you want to learn more, collaborate, or support these local regenerative economies, reach out at EthnopharmEBI@gmail.com
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Forest Guardians, Not Forest Poachers 🌿
