Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. Stop telling people to protect wildlife. Start paying them instead. That’s the idea in a new experiment in Kapuas Hulu district, in Indonesia’s West Kalimantan province, which is testing whether conservation can be made to work with local incentives rather than against them. The initiative, known as KehatiKu, asks residents to record wildlife sightings i
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KehatiKu Program name
Kapuas Hulu, West Kalimantan, Indonesia Location
Pays Residents To Record Wildlife Sightings Approach
Incentives Over Restrictions For Conservation Key innovation