
# 87: Rural communities and wildlife
Sometimes wildlife damage farms and destroy crops. In other cases, farming activities, including clearing forests for farming, harm wildlife and destroy their habitat. How can rural communities and wildlife co-exist? Villagers must grow food and make an income. People need to farm, but no-one wants to unnecessarily harm wildlife. What is the answer? How can wild species and human populations live harmoniously side by side?
- Balancing the interests of wildlife and rural communities: Lessons from Buabeng-Fiema monkey sanctuary in Ghana
- Butterfly farming generates income for rural community and protects the forest
- Forest communities generate income while conserving their environment
- Women are actively involved in planting jatropha in a Malian village
- Paying farmers for environmental services
- SolarAid’s micro solar project in rural Tanzania: Tremendous solar energy potential
- Biodiesel production: Generating income for small-scale farmers in Kenya
- The Love Letter project: An invitation for men to stand by their wives during pregnancy and childbirth