A question of scale: large funding, increased debt, few beneficiaries, small geographic area. Madagascar; Hydrology

Tartuffe’s Madagascar: conservation hypocrisy

Lucienne Wilmé, Patrick O. Waeber

Abstract


The international donor community's unbreakable interest

Some are more equal than others

The good, the bad, and the ugly of peer-reviewed publishing


Keywords


Madagascar; rosewood; ebony; CITES; traffic; World Bank; PADAP; donors; millions of dollars; GDP; debts; governance; forest; wetlands; Alaotra; VIP; Galápagos; Borneo; origins; archaeology; frugivores; nitrogen; Sci-Hub; conservation; development

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