Developing nations need ecological support

As an environmental journalist, I have read many reports about the conservation of biodiversity. However, only one remains fresh for me, and the same question has cudgeled my brain since I read it: how can people in areas with rich biological diversity really benefit from those resources without damaging their surroundings?

The report opened with a conversation between the writer, a Western journalist, and a skinny man with a gun hanging over his shoulder, who was hunting animals for food on the Ethiopia-Sudan border.

The writer asked the man if he would stop killing animals. Instead of answering the question directly, the man pointed at the potbellied journalist and said, "Look at your belly and then at mine."