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If you read this site, you probably value nature and biodiversity for its intrinsic worth: You want to protect it for its own sake, not human self-interest. Much of the rest of the world doesn't see things our way, though, and it's not because they're selfish. It's because they're too busy with the struggle for survival to worry about rare orchids or endemic birds. The chief scientist of the Nature Conservancy and the director of the Environmental Studies Institute argue in the October Scientific American that conservation efforts focusing on roping off biodiversity "hot spots" are doomed to failure, because they take away needed resources from the world's poorest people, thereby losing the support of the local community.You can find the entire article here http://aboutmyplanet.com/theories/matter-survival