WCS projects have been developing and testing a variety of different incentives for people to engage in conservation-friendly livelihoods that minimize or avoid degradation of the landscapes and seascapes where we work. Conservation Support has been working with WCS field staff to document and analyze the effectiveness of these incentive schemes, and to better understand the enabling conditions that help achieve conservation while supporting local livelihoods. A growing library of case-studies is helping us to document and share how Payments for Ecosystem Service (PES) programs represent a promising way to effect conservation by supporting rural livelihoods in biodiversity-rich, developing countries. Case evidence is now available on:

• Carbon markets and REDD
  
• Water markets
  
• Enterprise-based conservation
  
• Wildlife, livestock and human health
  
• Governance of natural resources

Additional materials generated by WCS partners (Forest Trends, The Land Tenure Center at the University of Wisconsin, Enterprise Works-Vita/Relief International and the Earth Institute at Columbia University), through funding provided to WCS by the TransLinks program of the United States Agency for International Development, are available on the TransLinks site of the USAID RM Portal.