Managing village water
Staying afloat in changing tides
Local culture is moulding conservation approaches on an eastern Indonesian island
Empty seas and hard times
A community in western Bali hopes that government regulation and a shift to eco-tourism will save it from the decline of its traditional fishing industry
Ideals that don’t make money
Environmental activists have done a lot for rural communities, but some are feeling the pinch
Catching songbirds in a national park
Livelihoods trump conservation in a Sumatran village
Using old resources in new ways
Taman Dayaks owe their existence to carefully nurtured resources, but they have to adapt if they want to survive
Where custom meets conservation
Conservation has to adapt to the constraints imposed by local customs and traditions
Struggling for control
Winning the right to manage its own forest is not easy for a community in West Lombok
Seeing the forests for the trees
Villages hope a regulation allowing them to manage forests will protect them from commercial interests
White rice or black sago?
On the island of Siberut, eating rice is both a status symbol and a sign of destruction of traditional ways
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