Climate & Environment
How droughts, floods, ecosystem failures and conservation finance reshape what is bookable, where, and at what price across the continent. The Climate Re-routing framework tracks the increasingly material gap between marketed wildlife products and what the climate now permits operators to deliver.
Gabon protected 11 percent of its land and built Africa's last Eden. Tourism is 0.8 percent of its economy.
Right now, through mid-September, humpback whales are breaching within sight of Gabon's beaches, where forest elephants walk the sand and gorillas can be tracked at the edge of the Atlantic. Gabon protected more of itself than almost any nation on earth and in 2023 pioneered the debt-for-nature swap. Yet travel and tourism is 0.8 percent of GDP, and the last park-visitor figure it published, for 2015, counted 2,500 people for the whole year. It financed the protection of its natural capital through an instrument never designed to finance the way in.
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