A $2.30-a-day basic income trial is trying to save the Amazon rainforest

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• A pioneering project in Peru is giving $2.30 a day to people in Indigenous communities.
• Reducing poverty removes a lot of the incentives for deforestation, the organizers told BI.
• Those without money worries are less likely to sell their land or work for logging companies, they said.

Groups backing a universal basic income trial in Peru are hoping that unconditional payments to Indigenous...