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* | What They're Selling In Namibia: On Oct. 28, Namibia's government held the first legal ivory auction since 1999, with more than seven tons of elephant tusks raising over $1 million from buyers in China and Japan. The sale--sanctioned by an international-wildlife-trade agreement--will soon be...
Throughout the University’s weeklong sustainability celebration, the Phillip Brooks House Association sought to bring global environmental problems down to the local level, with a series of events focused on environmental justice. The sustainability celebration coincided with PBHA’s decision to give keynote speaker Al Gore...
Razafindrasolo is one guide in the many networks of local guides that are springing up in Andasibe and increasingly throughout Madagascar. The government is dedicated to tripling the size of its national park system, which directly supports the economic livelihood of the people who live near them - in Madagascar, the...
Environmentalists who decry the impact of travel should know that if Andasibe can't attract tourists, the people who live there will have to find another way to make a living - probably by exploiting nature, rather than protecting it. (A major nickel mine being developed near Andasibe is an ominous...
2. How do you measure your contribution to conservation or to local communities? In Madagascar, for example, the government splits park revenue 50-50 with locals - that's the kind of thing you should be looking for.