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Why we can’t overlook people in addressing climate change
''The future of conservation is one in which local economies, nature, and people—the soul of these landscapes—can flourish.''
As an old king from the floodplains of the Kwando River in Angola used to say, “A landscape without people is just a landscape. But a landscape with people, has history and soul.”
- Kerllen Costa
- Brookings
Much of the African continent’s natural environment is largely undisrupted for a variety of reasons—including about five centuries of a disrupting colonization process, independence conflicts, and political instability, among others.
And while it…