$25m raising adds impetus to sluggish REDD effort

Arild Angelsen, CIFOR senior scientist gives his comments on PEN study result. 'People are getting quite a lot of resources out of the forests so it is important that if for conservation reasons you need to restrict access to the forest you should be very careful to find out what are the resources that are most important for poor people and incorporate them. The stronger the enforcement of forests, the more the poor are excluded,' he said.