Getting Creative Individuals and Communities Their Due:

Convention on Biological Diversity provides for the first time an opportunity to break the nexus widely observed between the biodiversity and the poverty. It is recognized that one could not conserve biodiversity by keeping people poor even if historically biodiversity survived only under such conditions. Studies have shown that many of the communities which conserve diversity have remained poor because of their superior ethical values. The challenge before us is to modify our own ethical positions. And at the same time ensure that with improvement in the livelihood prospects through the implementation of CBD, the communities will conserve diversity along with associated ethical and cultural values.