{"id":4683,"date":"2019-08-16T09:56:33","date_gmt":"2019-08-16T06:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=4683"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:28","slug":"africa-yet-to-unleash-full-potential-of-its-nature-based-tourism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/08\/16\/africa-yet-to-unleash-full-potential-of-its-nature-based-tourism\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa Yet To Unleash Full Potential Of Its Nature-Based Tourism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>By the UN Environment<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAfrica\u2019s unique diversity of wildlife and\nhabitat has the potential to radically transform the continent\u2019s economy,\u201d said\nthe report. Yet, \u201cat present, few of Africa\u2019s protected areas are meeting their\npotential as engines for tourism growth and are underfunded by up to ten times\nthe required level.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Countries in Africa\ncan do more to develop tourism in protected areas, which would in turn create\njobs in rural places, diversify and grow their economies and improve\nenvironmental resilience in the face of growing pressures, a report has said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Africa\u2019s biodiversity\ncould \u201ctransform\u201d the continent\u2019s economy, but at present many governments are\nscaling back on protection because of limited budgets needed for other pressing\npublic needs, a report produced by conservation organization&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/spaceforgiants.org\/\">Space for Giants\nClub<\/a>and\nthe UN Environment Programme said. To preserve their wildlife and wild places,\ngovernments should look at protected areas not only as environmental assets but\neconomic ones as well, with the continent\u2019s 8,400 protected areas producing\nUS$48 billion in revenue. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unenvironment.org\/news-and-stories\/story\/africa-yet-unleash-full-potential-its-nature-based-tourism\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By the UN Environment \u201cAfrica\u2019s unique diversity of wildlife and habitat has the potential to radically transform the continent\u2019s economy,\u201d said the report. Yet, \u201cat present, few of Africa\u2019s protected&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4684,"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-4683","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\/4683","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=4683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}