ABSTRACT
Trust funds are increasingly used to distribute financial benefits to communities and others according to agreed-upon objectives. The Healing Forest Conservancy, for example, has recently launched a trust fund with the Bioresources Development and Conservation Programme in Nigeria; a few of the International Cooperative Biodiversity Groups’ (ICBGs’) programmes have similarly made use of community trust funds; and the Tikina Verata in Fiji has established a biodiversity trust fund to administer funds from biodiversity prospecting (see Chapter 11).
