ABSTRACT
In many parts of the developing world, rainforests are being converted to other land uses such as agriculture, forestry and fuelwood gathering, which are seen as more beneficial than conservation. Countries such as Cameroon simply cannot afford to conserve large areas of rainforest. In order to promote the conservation that the international community often calls for, conservation must be viable and some form of compensation to developing countries may be required. Monetary transfers and debt-for-nature swaps have been widely propagated as means of promoting rainforest conservation in developing countries. A method is therefore needed to help determine the appropriate allocation of scarce international funding between specific rainforests.
