Into the Wild Africa: Liwonde National Park (Malawi)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 พ.ค. 2024
- Liwonde National Park in Malawi is heralded as one of Africa's great conservation success stories. Its spectacular setting on the banks of the Shire River, and its healthy Big Five population, make it a top tourist destination. So successful have its conservation strategies been that it is now a source of wildlife for repopulating other protected areas in Malawi. But is the hype really justified? Only one way to find out! So I jumped into my trusty Land Rover and drove across the Zambezi river to go have a look. And boy, was I glad I did!
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Nuff respect!
My home ❤ I miss this place
Really inspiring thank you
My home I miss this place
Please share contacts of the liwonde national park
Nice
My sweet home.
looks beautiful - clean and well stocked with healthy looking animals. Thanks Gus!
My pleasure. I love this Park!
Amazing Gus, always love these videos so much! The sounds are so beautiful. Been thinking of a Malawi trip recently and this has definitely convinced me!
Malawi is a stunning country and you should definitely go for it. You'll have a fantastic time, I guarantee!
Thanks for the tips 🙏
What is the music track at the start of this video?
The Baka
Few people on earth have as close a relationship to the forest as the Baka, Indigenous hunter gatherers who have lived in, protected and shaped the Congo Basin rainforest for generations. Yet they are facing human rights abuses in the name of conservation.
The creation of Protected Areas on their ancestral lands, from colonial times up until today, has brought violence, land theft, dispossession and hunger to the Baka. Park rangers, funded and equipped by big conservation organizations (like WWF and African Parks), subject them to harassment, rape, beatings, torture and even death.
Once their land is stolen, their sustainable ways of life are criminalized and they are pushed into “alternative livelihoods” to conform with mainstream society. Self-sufficient people are turned into landless and dependent “beneficiaries" of conservation-funded projects or into tourist attractions; while the real culprits of environmental destruction, like mining, oil, logging companies and trophy hunters are considered “partners” of conservation and allowed to carry on with business as usual.
The very existence of the Baka as a people is threatened. It’s time to decolonize conservation.
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