EcoVitality.org protects ecosystems in remote areas of poor countries.
Title
EcoVitality: Combining Conservation, Ecotourism, and Sustainable Development in Poor Nations!
Description
EcoVitality is a non-profit, tax-exempt environmental group set up to protect ecosystems and wildlife in remote rural areas of poor countries, where most of the Earth's biodiversity is located. When conflicts arise between economic development and environment in these regions, economic pressures almost always win out. This means the currently-accepted conservation approaches, including environmental law, education, and advocacy by environmental groups, have been FAILING to prevent ecological degradation when nature is most threatened.
EcoVitality has a better idea . We plan to create new conservation-compatible business enterprises in poor rural areas , to market the resulting goods or services in the U.S. and other wealthy nations, and to send the profits to the producing communities in return for effective conservation commitments. We are now applying this strategy by using the profits from African wildlife safaris to fund lion conservation programs in Namibia.
Under current worldwide economic and trade conditions, good opportunities for making conservation profitable in developing countries are uncommon. However, conservationists cannot afford to accept this condition as inevitable and must try to change the underlying circumstances. Accomplishing this difficult but vital task requires that EcoVitality use a comprehensive approach that devotes careful attention to every facet of creating and maintaining conservation-compatible enterprises that can prove successful in international markets, including:
Languages
English
Contact
- EcoVitality, Inc.
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- New York NY
- United States 10013
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- +1.21296619
