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Environment - Nature | Travel - Leisure
Central Africa's "Pygmies" gain from ecotourism
afrol News, 23 May - In three bordering national parks, covering parts of Cameroon, Congo Brazzaville and the Central African Republic, the most marginalised peoples have found new revenue sources as ecotourism projects are becoming successful. BaAka "Pygmies" are finally being paid in cash for having managed their forest livelihoods well for generations.
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Madagascar
Environment - Nature | Travel - Leisure
Madagascar's Atsinanana rainforest is world heritage
afrol News, 27 June - Six national parks along the eastern part of Madagascar have been found so unique that they were inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage List today. The Atsinanana site represents almost all the remaining rainforest on the Great Island, and almost 90 percent of all species in the forest live no other place on earth.
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Malawi
Travel - Leisure | Economy - Development
Malawi govt to support tourism business
afrol News / The Chronicle, 30 October - In its efforts to promote private/public sector partnerships, Malawi's Department of Parks and Wildlife has entered into a joint venture with Land & Lake Safaris (L&LS) to develop and run the Lilongwe Nature Sanctuary as a profitable tourist lodge, while also creating a rehabilitation centre for illegally captured wildlife.
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Cape Verde
Travel - Leisure | Environment - Nature
Will turtles survive Cape Verde tourist invasion?
afrol News, 7 February - Only a few years ago, the enormous marine turtles site at Ervatao beach on Cape Verde's sparsely populated Boa Vista Island was discovered. It is the world's third most important loggerhead nesting site. Environmentalists fear that Cape Verde's growing tourism industry will wipe out also this nesting site.
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» 22.12.2004 - Locals "evicted" by Ethiopia tourism project
» 04.10.2004 - Limited rhino hunt allowed in SA, Namibia
» 15.09.2004 - Gabon to ease access to new national parks
» 06.07.2004 - South Africa's Cape Floral Region a "biologic sensation"
» 21.06.2004 - South Africa announces more national parks
» 20.06.2004 - Northern Mozambique becomes "charter" destination
» 04.12.2003 - Ecotourism investments in SA's St Lucia Park
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