To help offsetting adverse effects of resource use limitations or conflicting interests, and where feasible, LLCTC explores options of developing alternative incomes, especially where there is a clear opportunity cost incurred through conservation. Options include the integration of ecotourism with conservation, such as building eco-lodges or to develop eco-timber operation as an alternative to industrial logging.
- Feasibility of eco tourism related investments
- Cooperation and support from external partners, such as NGOs.
Some tribes and communities expect conservation to provide money immediately, a result of past experience with logging royalties in the Solomon Islands. This thinking will fade provided there is sufficient education and awareness building by local partners. Communities will slowly understand that monetary benefit is not the only benefit. The integration of ecotourism and conservation will potentially support livelihoods in tandem with biodiversity conservation. The Lauru PAN is not just about conservation but to tie resource management, food security and human sustainability. Thus, there is a need to integrate other projects in sites where LLCTC works, not only in view of livelihood projects but also sanitation, and perhaps other basic community infrastructures and services. However, it should be noted that it may sometimes be difficult to provide compatible livelihood options.