Safari tourism quietly reshapes Africa's ecosystems, review warns

Safari tourism quietly reshapes Africa's ecosystems, review warns

Nature-based tourism has long been celebrated as Africa’s conservation success story, generating revenue that funds protected area management, incentivizes wildlife protection, and creates livelihoods for communities surrounding national parks. But a sweeping new review published in Frontiers in Sustainable Resource Management argues that this celebrated industry is also a pervasive yet under-recognized pressure on the continent’s ecosystems, on…