This commentary is purely based on what we saw and learned during our months traveling and visiting with people in Malawi, Kenya and Tanzania. Wildlife conservation as a concept has morphed from preserving fauna and flora in natural ecosystems to a biodiversity notion. Phrases like, “sustainable use” and “wildlife management” have made a commodity out of what we once revered as sacred. There was a time when animals, birds and nature were reverenced, respected and deemed as rightful inhabitants of planet earth. Today, the “if it doesn’t pay it doesn’t stay” mentality has become the norm. Trophy hunters, wildlife farmers…
