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Steps touted to thin out crowds
Business, Molpasorn Shoowong, Published on 14/06/2024
» Easing overtourism requires proper management and cooperation with local communities, according to the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC), which suggests Thailand disperse tourists to new destinations through infrastructure development.
Is greenwashing taking travellers to the cleaners?
Business, Published on 13/03/2024
» Every hotel wants you to save the planet. The messianic messages are everywhere -- on little tent cards on the desk, proud notices on the bathroom door, and in dolorous the-end-is-nigh letters from the GM. Every hotel is saving the Yanomami Indians, Atlantic salmon and mountain gorillas.
The precarious life of gorillas
Oped, Published on 27/09/2023
» Have you ever wondered what it is like to stand face to face with a creature so powerful yet so achingly human in its gaze? Imagine, for a moment, to be in the heart of Africa's mystical forests, surrounded by towering trees and the ethereal sounds of nature. And there, in that sacred realm, you find yourself in the presence of gorillas -- these gentle giants, our kin in the animal kingdom, who hold a mirror to our own humanity.
At least 37 slain as jihadists attack Ugandan school
AFP, Published on 17/06/2023
» KAMPALA: Militants linked to the Islamic State group hacked and burned 37 students to death in western Uganda in the country’s worst such attack in over a decade, army and police officials said on Saturday.
Panda woe Number One
News, Postbag, Published on 23/04/2023
» Re: "Giant panda Lin Hui dies in Chiang Mai", (BP, April 20).
Gabon counts on visitors to help preserve great apes
AFP, Published on 22/04/2022
» LOANGO NATIONAL PARK (GABON) - Around a bend on a narrow trail that runs deep into the forest of Gabon's Loango national park, Kamaya comes into view. The huge silverback gorilla coolly watches visitors arrive, then goes back to his meal.
Too many gorillas? The great apes' hunt for space in Rwanda
AFP, Published on 23/12/2021
» VOLCANOES NATIONAL PARK (RWANDA) - A huge male silverback gorilla nibbles on a tasty bamboo shoot before farting loudly, oblivious to his neighbours -- farmers working fertile fields a stone's throw away.
US special forces in east DR Congo to fight militia: sources
AFP, Published on 19/08/2021
» GOMA (DR CONGO) - US special operations forces have arrived in the east of the DR Congo to help in the fight against a feared jihadist militia enjoying "sanctuary" in the region's nature parks, US and Congolese sources said Wednesday.
Body of Italian ambassador killed in DR Congo returns home
AFP, Published on 24/02/2021
» ROME - The body of the Italian ambassador killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo arrived in Rome late Tuesday, as Rwandan Hutu rebels denied accusations they were behind the attack and instead blamed the armies of the DRC and Rwanda.
Italian ambassador killed in DR Congo attack
AFP, Published on 22/02/2021
» GOMA (DR CONGO) - Italy's ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo was killed on Monday when a UN convoy came under attack in the troubled east, DRC sources and the government in Rome said.