Community-based forest ecotourism: A viable strategy for community forestry development and conservation?

At a time when forest issues have become a central subject of heated debate in the face of pressing environmental ills, community forestry has become an important strategy. As a result of disillusionment with the performance of the state as a resource manager, community forestry seeks to reinforce the use of forests and their trees for local rural development, based on self-management of the existing resources by working with local communities and their institutions. Community forestry is not an invention of development agents but is rooted in traditional systems of communal forest..