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🚁 Heli view: How Africa’s most nature-dependent sector is going green
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Winners build coalitions. The continent’s environment contains the largest carbon sinks on the planet, making it central to limiting climate change.
While safeguarding those rich & diverse landscapes is essential to tourism.
Win-win: Climate activism and the hospitality sector are natural allies in Africa. Both rely on nature’s bounty. Yet until recently their shared interest was far from obvious.
Activists griped about emissions from long-distance air travel.
And tour operators feared association with political causes.