Population and livelihoods on the edge

Abstract

The amount of land in Africa that’s set aside for animals is tiny, mybe 3% of the Africa, and before Peace Parks was dwindling, and could only go one way as population grew and grew. And yet, what is Africa? Africa is its animals… and that’s the beauty of Africa - that’s what makes it different from the rest of the world and to lose those animals woul dbe catastrophic, so the wonderful thing about Peace Parks is trying to increase the amount of land for the animals, and by increasing the amount of land for the animals that will jelp human beings. The elephants are growing in numbers and… the last thing you would want to do is cull them, so what you ideally need to do is expand the land and space for the elephants. (Sir Richard Branson, Ambassador for Peace Parks’ Elephant Corridor between Botswana and Zambia)