Controversial Tourism Company Ignores Bushman Rights, Wins ‘World Savers Award’

Controversial Tourism Company Ignores Bushman Rights, Wins ‘World Savers Award’   Controversial tour operator Wilderness Safaris has won a ‘World Savers Award’, despite erecting a luxury tourist lodge with swimming pool on the land of Kalahari Bushmen who are struggling for water.   Wilderness Safaris opened the Kalahari Plains Camp inside the Central Kalahari Game Reserve in 2009, having failed to consult the Bushmen on whose ancestral lands the lodge sits. The lodge sports a bar and swimming...

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