Tropical forests and the human spirit: journeys to the brink of hope

This book highlights one solution for preserving the precious tropical forest resource: empowering local people who depend on the forest for survival.

The authors provide a tour of global efforts to empower community-based forest stewards.

Along the way, they show the fundamental importance of tropical forest ecosystems and urge our need to save them for the benefit of billions of rural people in tropical and subtropical regions as well as for countless species of plants and animals.