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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Gabon
Politics | Travel - Leisure | Economy - Development
"Gabon is stable" says tourism brochure
afrol News, 10 November - In a drive to market Gabon's "unspoilt" forests and coastline to Western tourists, the government shies no efforts. Only weeks before the elections, where President Omar Bongo plans for yet another non-transparent re-election, a new tourism brochure emphasises that "Gabon is a stable country."
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Ethiopia
Travel - Leisure | Environment - Nature | Society | Human rights
Locals "evicted" by Ethiopia tourism project
afrol News, 22 December - As tourist facilities have been developed in southern Ethiopia's Nechasar National Park, local residents have been forcibly evicted without any compensation, a new report says. The park is managed by a Dutch foundation, which is developing eco-tourism facilities. The foundation claims relocations were "negotiated" and voluntary.
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» 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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