Word: xcaret
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Dates: during 1999-1999
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...build a visitors center, upgrade trails and construct canopy walkways has saved Ghana's Kakum rain forest from logging and other depredations. The park now employs 2,000 local people and attracts 40,000 tourists a year. Receipts from about 1,600 visitors each day are keeping afloat the Xcaret ecopark in Yucatan, Mexico--and also funding the 50 scientists who work there. Off Zanzibar, the island of Chumbe is preserving its local coral reefs and fish species with tourist income...
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