Joy Grant is helping the Nature Conservancy to become a global environmental organization.
"[Joy Grant] took the organization's information systems manager into the jungle in Guatemala, by helicopter, foot, boat, and car, then by boat to Belize. Now, she says, he understands why people in the field can't be online monitoring their email all day... Certain things I would take for granted that everybody knows, they don't know," she said. For example, in the U.S., the Nature Conservancy has long followed the model of owning land to protect it -- but in developing countries, this model often doesn't work. 'I know that if you try to set large tracts of land aside in the developing world, you have to get buy-in of the local people. You cannot police it,' Grant said."
Thanks to Laura Kranz
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