Helping people afford healthcare has reduced illegal logging in Borneo

Patients can pay with non-cash items such as handicrafts or seedlings or their own labor. People from villages that do not participate in illegal logging pay discounted rates.
Webb says the model works. Her group surveyed more than a thousand households and found that the number participating in logging had dropped by more than two-thirds in just five years.
She says slowing deforestation around the world starts with listening to local people.Webb We need to ask them what they need and then funnel those resources to them. Everyone in the world will do better if these communities do better.