Inter-Linking Economic Development and Nature Conservation:

• "Efforts to involve local people in the conservation of biodiversity will not succeed in the long-term unless local people perceive those efforts as serving their economic and cultural interests" (Biodiversity Support Program, 1993).
• "The goal is to generate support for reserve protection from local people by improving economic productivity outside the protected area" (Kux, 1991).
• "Only by seriously examining how local communities will tangibly and immediately benefit from conservation activities will protected areas be sustainable and cost effective" (Pimbert and Pretty, 1995).
• "The aim is to compensate local people for economic losses caused by the establishment of a protected area; provide substitutes for resources to which access has been denied, such as meat, timber, and grazing; or provide alternative sources of income through new economic activities" (Wells et al, 1992).
• "Economic incentives aimed at encouraging rural people to conserve biological resources outside of protected areas can be very cost effective in terms of conservation achievement" (McNeely, Miller, Reid, and Mittermeier, 1990).

Basing the Development/Conservation Project on Local Participation:

• "Localized conservation can draw on the deep knowledge, traditions, ethics, and adaptive practices, of rural communities intimately linked to the land and nature" (Western, 1992).
• "Analysis, choice, experiment, project design and evaluation are conducted by and with people themselves, with outside professionals assuming a facilitating and supporting role" (Pimbert and Pretty, 1995).

Integrate Local Institutions:

• "A strength identified as contributing to enhancement of the program's credibility included providing support for existing and new local institutions" (Oldfield and Acorn, 1991).
• "Local institutional building or strengthening increases the capacity of people to initiate action on their own" (Pimbert and Pretty, 1995)
• "Whenever possible, enforcement should be administered by local people" (McNeely, Miller, Reid, and Mittermeier, 1990)
• "Successful local organizations can play positive roles for coordinating and spreading the benefits of outside assistance" (Honadle and VanSant, 1985).

Creating Park-University Partnerships:

• "Universities, research institutions, and non-government organizations need to be strengthened so that they can help governments assess their biological resources" (McNeely, Miller, Reid, and Mittermeier, 1990).

PCD Helping to Manage Conflict:

• "Conflict of interest have thus arisen in many areas of the world between protected areas and local people. Traditional approaches to park management and enforcement activities have been unable to balance these competing demands" (Wells, et al, 1992).
• "Projects adopting a participatory approach have made important progress in winning the trust and confidence of skeptical local populations and eliciting the participation of community members in project initiated activities" (Wells et al, 1992).
• "The involvement of governments in community-based conservation often generates new conflicts, since the interests of governments seldom coincide with community interests" (Strum, 1992).
• "Hostile relations between park personnel and local communities have become substantially more amicable as a result of project personnel performing a mediation role" (Munasinghe and McNeely, 1994).

Advance Multiple Interests Simultaneously:

• "Partnerships provide a basis for effectively addressing the challenge that distinguishes integrated conservation development programs from all other conservation and development projects: the need to link socio-economic development with biodiversity conservation" (Wells, Brandon, and Hannah, 1992).
• "Community-based conservation requires unprecedented collaboration--horizontally, often between competing institutions, and vertically, through institutions at different levels of society" (Wright, 1992).
• "Two things are certain about community-based conservation: It is possible, and it is difficult" (Strum, 1992).
• "When each person has attained some self-defined good, without preventing other individuals from doing the same--ideally, when all individuals can do this at once--it can be said that life's potential for bringing fulfillment has been realized, even though it has never been defined commonly" (Bush and Folger, 1994).

Train Park Personnel:

• "Agencies need to change from a purely enforcement orientation to one substantially more sympathetic to communities living in and around parks. This will require not only changes in attitude at all agency levels but also completely new skills in such areas as communication, extension, education, and mediation" (Wells, Brandon, and Hannah, 1992).
• "In most countries, those responsible for managing wildlife and protected areas are poorly paid, have insufficient opportunities for advancement, lack specialized training, and have low prestige" (McNeely, Miller, Reid, and Mittermeier, 1990).