Interview with UNEP Africa climate change expert Dr Richard Munang
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Lagazel solar lamps provide a ray of hope in Africa
In poverty-stricken Burkina Faso, electricity is still a dream for many. But locally-manufactured solar lamps provide a gleam of hope.
Conservation tourism for Africa’s wildlife and local communities
Great Plains Conservation offers responsible tourism in Botswana, Kenya, and Zimbabwe. In their eco-camps, safari-lovers can experience the amazing African wildlife while helping sustain the existing wilderness and local communities. The award-winning organisation says that their “model takes stressed and threatened environments, surrounds them with compassionate protection and intelligent, sustainable management, and funds them with sensitive, low-volume, low-impact, tourism.”