Your Next Luxury Safari: Asilia’s Jabali Ridge in Southern Tanzania
It?s a story that?s been told before. Wealthy philanthropist and safari operator set out to conserve land and keep animals alive by convincing local communities of their tourism value. When done right, it can work very well.
Last year, British billionaire Jim Ratcliffe, chairman of the chemical company INEOS, began writing his version of that story, investing $10 million in a sustainable tourism and conservation effort in southern Tanzania?some of the country?s most vast, rugged and wildlife-rich national parks and reserves, which see only a fraction of the visitors who go to northern parks like the Serengeti. One of the southern parks, Ruaha, is home to 10% of the world?s remaining lion population and quite a few of the elephants, but because tourism has been sparse, it has been under threat from human encroachment and poaching. Asilia
?My view is that human encroachment is the greatest threat to endangered wildlife and that the only way that humans and wildlife will happily coexist is when the local human population have a strong vested interest in preserving the wildlife population,? says Ratcliffe, who has also invested heavily in conservation efforts in Iceland. ?The challenge is to create jobs and livelihoods that achieve the conservation objective, and the success of such a strategy is probably best illustrated in the Okavango Delta. That is the model that we are trying to replicate in southern Tanzania.?
Ratcliffe partnered with Asilia, one of the continent?s mos...
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