Managing the Wild: Stories of People and Plants and Tropical Forests

Drawn from ecologist Charles M. Peters’s thirty‑five years of fieldwork around the globe, these absorbing stories argue that the best solutions for sustainably managing tropical forests come from the people who live in them. As Peters says, “Local people know a lot about managing tropical forests, and they are much better at it than we are.”

With the aim of showing policy makers, conservation advocates, and others the potential benefits of giving communities a more prominent conservation r...