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Integrated conservation and development projects (ICDPs), are biodiversity conservation projects with rural development components. It is an approach that aspires to combine social development with conservation goals.[1] These projects look to deal with biodiversity conservation objectives through the use of socio-economic investment tools. The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), first introduced ICDPs in the mid-1980s. They wanted to attend to some of the problems associated with the “fines and fences” (non-participatory) approach to conservation.[2]