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An American tech millionaire signed a 20-year deal to restore a Mozambican national park where civil war had wiped out about 95 percent of the large animals — two decades and tens of millions of dollars later, aerial counts have passed 100,000 large mammals
What was written off as a wasteland has become a test case for whether enough money and vision can restore an ecosystem to its former abundance.
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An American millionaire signed a 20-year agreement to recover Gorongosa National Park, where civil war had eliminated 95% of the big animals. Two decades and tens of millions of dollars later, the park has more than 100,000 large mammals. What came to be given as a devastated land became a case of studying whether money and sufficient vision can return abundance to an ecosystem. The first survey planes that flew over Gorongosa National Park afte…