As featured on Foreign Exchange. One of the few good stories to come out of Rwanda in the 1990s was about local conservationists saving the habitat of the endangered mountain gorilla. This helped fuel the economy by bringing tourism and much-needed dollars to the impoverished region. Unfortunately the experience of another Rwandan forest is far more representative of what happens to the environment during a war. After the 1994 genocide, refugees moved into the Gishwati forest reserve looking for a safe place to live and farm. Within in a few years almost the entire forest had been chopped down. Today we go to Rwanda to look at how conservation, or lack thereof, can impact a region's chances for post-war prosperity. For more information, visit www.pulitzercenter.org/showproject.cfm?id=16.