Time for some good news – a piece in the Telegraph about how one person – well two people working together – can really make a difference:
Endalk was now a king pin of Simien conservation, working for an Austrian non-governmental organisation in co-operation with Unesco. His influence was everywhere: new park headquarters were rising from the dirt, as were more sophisticated facilities at the campsites in the park. The rabble of self-proclaimed guides who used to besiege the tourist buses was gone, replaced by a licenced, trained, uniformed elite.
Best of all – to my mind, incredibly – animal numbers were rising. The formula was simplicity itself: harsher penalties for poaching, rewards for informants, more patrols, and village sessions to educate pastoralists about the benefits of tourism. I was in awe: the man was a whirlwind.
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