Paying for healthcare with a healthy rainforest




Mongabay Newscast show

Summary: Kinari Webb founded Health in Harmony, which provides healthcare to people to save Indonesian rainforests: she realized that most illegal deforestation happens when villagers have to pay for medical care, because all they have to generate cash with is timber. The program has reduced infant deaths by 2/3 and illegal logging by 90%. Plus we round up the top environmental news, so if you like what you hear, please leave a positive review, subscribe, and tell a friend.