Indigenous Territories, Ecosystem Services and Conservation Finance in Bolivia Windows of Opportunity for biodiversity conservation and local livelihoods.doc

Indigenous Territories, Ecosystem Services and
Conservation Finance in Bolivia:
Windows of Opportunity for biodiversity
conservation and local livelihoods
Bernardo Peredo Bernardo Peredo is a PhD candidate at Oxford University Center for the Environment in Oxford, United Kingdom. He can be reached by email at bernardo.******@ .
Background
It is widely evidenced that biodiversity conservation and ecosystem services provide a range of benefits and have a total economic prising use and non-use values (Ekins, 1999; Pearce, 2003; Munasinghe, 1994; Adams, 2001). heless, it is imperative to recognize that only new ways of drawing e from natural landscapes will save biodiversity from continuous destruction, being the race on how to develop methods to draw e from landscapes without killing them as the poorest countries are rapidly decapitalizing their natural resource and unintentionally wiping out much of their biodiversity in a scramble to meet development targets (Wilson, 2001).
The intangible value that biodiversity conservation yields, cannot under prevailing development frameworks, generate the short-term benefits that poor people and financially poor countries need (Koziell, 2001). Since the value of conserving biodiversity can be considerable, conservation should be seen as a form of economic development and investments in conservation should be judged in e