
“How can we use nature in a sustainable way?” That is a question I, together with colleagues from different parts of the world, have sought to answer for a decade. We are dedicated to studying issues related to the sustainable use of natural resources.
The question may seem simple, but to date no complete answers have been found. Recently, the traditional communities of the Pantanal, a wetland region that extends across parts of Brazil, Paraguay and Bolivia, have helped us to better understand this question.