“…Alternatively, other conservation enterprises create sustainable livelihoods by directly linking conservation and livelihood outcomes to the product (USAID, 2017). Participants in the livelihood program help to alleviate conservation threats through their participation, as the program connects benefit sharing, community aspirations, and environmental conservation (Kimengsi, Pretzsch, Auch, & Balgah, 2019). Some conservation programs create sustainable extraction programs for non‐timber forest products to produce items for sale and reduce destructive logging (Awono et al, 2010; Carr et al, 1993; Jumbe & Angelsen, 2007), while others teach skills to the rural poor that can reduce their demand to consume forest products (Adams et al, 2004; Coomes, 2004; Savage, Giraldo, Soto, & Garcia, 2000; Savage, Soto, & Giraldo, 2000).…”