Category: Wildlife

Portugal creates Europe’s largest Marine Reserve

The new reserve protects 2,677 square kilometres around the Selvagens Islands, an archipelago in the North Atlantic. Marine ecosystems face three major threats: fishing, pollution, and the climate crisis. Protecting them against the first goes a long way towards helping them survive the second two.

Tribal-Run conservation in Africa proves resilient during the pandemic

The Covid pandemic has hit African tourism and the wildlife conservation it supports extremely hard. But Indigenous-managed projects, such as the Il Ngwesi eco-lodge and conservancy run by Maasai in Kenya, have benefited from local people’s stewardship of their lands.

Recall of the wild: South America’s new era of nature-led tourism

Macaws, jaguars, tapirs and woolly monkeys are just a few of the critically endangered species being reintroduced as part of Latin America’s rewilding drive. In Colombia, the government recently passed into law wide-reaching sustainable tourism policies under the banner 'Together With Nature'.

More resilient tourism industry emerging in 2022

The world's reaction to the fact that South Africa's scientists identified the omicron variant, was nothing short of devastating, especially for the South African...

The African nature based tourism platform – connecting funders to beneficiaries in 11 countries in eastern and southern Africa

Durban, South Africa - The newly launched African Nature-Based Tourism Platform is 8 months into its first year of the three-year project phase. It...

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