Thursday, November 15, 2012

Wildlife Tourism

"The program achieved its goals of improving tourism, creating business linkages, enhancing awareness of conservation, and contributing to increased household income in the region."

http://allafrica.com/stories/201211151452.html

This article talks about how a program in Uganda has helped tourism increase which in turn "has been a 60% average increase in tourism revenues to the UWA; a 27% average increase in household income; an approximately 35% reduction in the number of people living in severe poverty; and an over 20% increase in the number of people whose incomes rose above the poverty line."

This sounds like this program is very good for Uganda and their economic system.