The failure to generate income for forest communities from the conservation of their forests is a tragedy for the country’s rural development, says Silas Siakor, one of the country’s most prominent environmental activists.

Mongabay’s Ashoka Mukpo spoke to Siakor about the project and what it could mean for forest protection globally.

Integrated Development and Learning, hopes it can find enough funding to scale up the pilot to a total of 200,000 hectares (494,000 acres) of rainforest.