{"id":3267,"date":"2019-06-24T07:07:25","date_gmt":"2019-06-24T07:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=3267"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:22","slug":"wildlife-economy-summit-to-launch-african-led-vision-for-conservation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/06\/24\/wildlife-economy-summit-to-launch-african-led-vision-for-conservation\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildlife Economy Summit To Launch African-Led Vision For Conservation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><strong>By UN Environment<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Businesses built on Africa\u2019s\nnatural landscapes and wildlife \u2013 including tourism, the harvesting of plants\nand natural products for food, cosmetics or medicines, wildlife credit schemes\nfor direct payments for conservation, or fees, taxes and levies tied to the use\nof nature, among others \u2013 employ millions of people and earn governments\nbillions of dollars in revenue. Alongside commercial rewards, conserved\nhabitats drive local, regional and global environmental benefits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A Working Paper by Space for\nGiants, supported by UNEP and the World Conservation Monitoring Center \u2013 to be\nreleased at the Summit \u2013 shows that consumer spending on tourism, hospitality\nand recreation in Africa, estimated at $124 billion in 2015, is expected to\nreach $262 billion by 2030. But even as economies built on wildlife continue to\ngrow, they must take into account economic, social and ecological\nsustainability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Key to social sustainability is\nensuring local communities are co-investors in the nature-based economy. The\npeople living with nature must be at the center of transactions, and\ncommunities must be treated as equal partners, with their own conservation and\ndevelopment aspirations similarly valued alongside important interventions to\nconserve species\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unenvironment.org\/news-and-stories\/press-release\/wildlife-economy-summit-launch-african-led-vision-conservation\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By UN Environment Businesses built on Africa\u2019s natural landscapes and wildlife \u2013 including tourism, the harvesting of plants and natural products for food, cosmetics or medicines, wildlife credit schemes for&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}