Thousands of digital images shot from a low-flying airplane have revealed a startling new portrait of Africa.
There are places where the continent is so stressed by overexploitation that entire ecosystems are in or near collapse. The result is human misery, such as currently seen in Niger, where thousands of people are starving.
But there are also surprisingly large regions where herds of thousands of antelope still run free, millions of people live in stability on carefully nurtured soil, or where new sustainable land-use policies are bringing the return of environmental equilibrium.
“Overall, I was more impressed than depressed by what I saw,” said J. Michael (Mike) Fay, a conservationist with the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and the National Geographic Society. “Many Africans have figured out what they need to do to save their environment and themselves.”
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