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Tourism









































      Memory Phiri is a Travel and recreation con-
      sultant who has vast experience in the tourism
      industry. She also is a free-lance writer in ad-
      dition to being a sustainable activist. You can
      get in touch with her on phirimemory491@
      gmail.com.










                  xtinction is a terrifying   tourists  forever.  Thus,  the    are supposed to save this safari
                  line of thought and a      tourism pool is having sleepless   giant before it is wiped from the
          Ecomplete            nightmare     nights for the sake of the salient   face of this earth. A word to the

          for the tourism and hospitality    horn, which constantly brings      wise is enough. This gruesome
          consortium.  The idea of not       this inevitable predicament to     topic has been dragging on
          having  those  rhino  walking      our door. Poachers are ripping     for ages, and it’s high time
          trails is unthinkable; it’s gut-   us off and willingly putting their   we nailed the perpetrators for
          wrenching. Tourism depends on      lives on the line for hard cash    good. Speaking at length, dear

          safari and wildlife, so what will   that is realized from keratin     readers, there is a need to box
          be the point of going for a game   horn smuggling.                    many a poacher’s ears for them
          drive when there are no rhinos                                        to leave this special creature

          to gape at in astonishment? We     Suffice  it  to  say  that  the    alone.  Writing  this  article  has
          cannot fathom that our game        rhinoceros is endangered in        been very painful because our
          parks will be bland, thereby       the wild due to our greedy and     safari and wildlife  package  is
          lacking the power to excite        reckless actions. As a people, we   taking the fall in the long run.



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