COVID-19 lockdowns and travel restrictions cratered ecotourism in Africa in 2020, depriving local communities of life-sustaining revenues. As a result, poaching surged across the continent—driven by desperation for food and income, or by profit, and exacerbated by weakened enforcement efforts, experts have said.
However, the people of Chyulu Hills in southeast Kenya—said to be the inspiration for Ernest Hemingway’s “Green Hills of Africa”—were able to tell a different story...
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