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In the rush for commercial exploitation of rain forest areas, one aspect that is often neglected as timber is extracted or forest is felled for agricultural land is the multitude of non-timber forest products that are available. Non-timber forest products (NTFPs) have been a vital resource for the survival of forest dwellers, whether indigenous or settlers, for many generations. It is the NTFPs that provide food, medicine, fibres, arrow poisons, shelter and many other essentials to life. As indigenous peoples have come into contact with the more developed world and as settlers have occupied the rain forest, NTFPs have entered the economy in a large way. They already provide considerable income to forest peoples, and even more to those people who prey upon them. For example, de Beer and McDermott (1989) state that 29 million forest dwellers in South-East Asia depend on NTFPs for their livelihood. It is therefore important to consider the potential of NTFPs in this volume, and to discuss their role in the sustainable management and conservation of rain forest.
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Prance, G.T. (1998). Indigenous non-timber benefits from tropical rain forest. In: Goldsmith, F.B. (eds) Tropical Rain Forest: A Wider Perspective. Conservation Biology Series, vol 10. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4912-9_2
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