Giving £2 a day to people in the Amazon helps protect rainforest, pilot project finds

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• A two-year pilot gave 211 Indigenous people in Peru's Asháninka region six cash transfers of 1,032 soles each, about £2 a day, to spend freely.
• Almost 90% of participants adopted environmentally beneficial practices such as collective reforestation, water source restoration and reduced forest burning.