Ecotourism’s Potential to Protect West Africa’s Endangered Species

Bad news about West Africa’s rapidly declining biodiversity often seems endless, the result of forest destruction, poaching, poverty, etc. (Some Nigerian examples: Deforestation , Endangered chimps and Gorilla habitat). Not only are irreplaceable species and ecosystems being lost forever, but so too are many opportunities for tourism employment, entrepreneurship and government revenues. For remote regions,...