What is the best way to save forests?

"USE it or lose it" is an idea that is gradually penetrating the conservation movement. Its latest incarnation is a report snappily entitled "Making markets work for forest communities", which was launched in London on March 7th. Put out by Forest Trends, an American non-governmental organisation, and the Centre for International Forestry Research, a research group based in Indonesia, this report tackles the perception-widespread among drawing-room conservationists-that forests are wild areas devoid of people.