This is Chalalan Lodge, a wholly Indian-owned and -operated ecotourism outfit through which a hundred indigenous families lifted themselves out of poverty – while creating benefits worth a half million dollars for the Bolivian economy each year. It is one of dozens of similar operations – from the world’s largest salt flats in the south, to Lake Titicaca in the west, to the eastern Pantanal wetlands – that combine economic growth with conservation.
这就是查拉澜小屋，一个完全由印第安人拥有和经营的生态旅游项目。因为它的存在， 当地100多个家庭在摆脱贫困的同时，还为玻利维亚创造了每年高达50万美元的利润。从南部全球最大的盐沼、到西部的的的喀喀湖，再到东部的潘塔纳尔沼泽地，类似这样把经济增长和生态保护相结合的旅游项目还有许多。玻利维亚的民主体系非常脆弱，是该半球仅次于海地的穷困国家，在这里能经营起这样的项目，看起来似乎有些不可思议。