Rwanda and Burundi, two countries that have suffered concurrent ethnic strife and civil war, signed an agreement last month to establish a transnational conservation area. The newly demarcated area encompasses the largest swath of mountain forest remaining in East Africa. The agreement covers Rwanda’s Nyungwe National Park and Burundi’s Kibira National Park, together representing 1,400 […]
Recent initiatives show signs of hope for reviving long-dormant tourist sectors in war-torn Afghanistan and Iraq. The Swiss-based Aga Khan Foundation is contributing $1 million over the next three years to the Bamiyan Ecotourism Project in central Afghanistan. According to Sanjeev Gupta, a regional program coordinator for Aga Khan, the project’s goal is to develop […]
With Colombia’s most popular theme park dedicated to the coffee bean, it was only a matter of time before a park opened in recognition of the country’s other lucrative cash crop. “Here begins a truly wild adventure,” reads the sign above the door to Hacienda Napoles, the former grounds of cocaine-trafficker Pablo Escobar’s 3,700-acre compound […]
