“Local people know a lot about managing tropical forests, and they are much better at it than we are.” So writes Charles M. Peters in his new book Managing the Wild; Stories of People and Plants and Tropical Forests.
As Kate E. Tode Curator of Botany at the New York Botanical Garden and professor of tropical ecology (adjunct) at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Peters is most certainly one to whose opinions on the subject of plant conservation attention should be paid. And as he illustrates them with stories from his thirty-five years of fieldwork around the globe, this new book promises to be both thought-provoking in what it proposes as well as both enlightening and entertaining in how it is proposed.
