CSF and the Peruvian Attorney General’s office sign Agreement to collaborate in efforts against illegal gold mining

Lima, Peru - On Friday, July 11th, Conservation Strategy Fund (CSF) and the Attorney General's Office (PGE) signed an Interinstitutional Cooperation Agreement to strengthen technical capacities in the economic valuation of environmental damage caused by illegal gold mining.

What the Forest Is Worth: Valuing Indigenous Economies in Indonesia

Background

The Asmat Regency is one of four regencies in South Papua, an Indonesian province with abundant natural resources, among them tropical forest ecosystems, fisheries, mining, and inland aquatic ecosystems. Natural resource management and economic development are some of the key challenges facing the region and are often assumed to be in opposition to each other.