caption: Black cardamom farmers head up the mountains in Hoang Lien National Park, near Vietnam's border with China. Many local Vietnamese families have cultivated cardamom here for decades. Enforcing conservation rules with precision in Vietnam's protected areas is often impossible because so many people with modest incomes live nearby, said <PERSON>, author of Forests Are Gold: Trees, People, and Environmental Rule in Vietnam. ``It's just not going to happen, so you have to have some sort of alternate model.''
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