Wilderness Safaris Celebrates 35 Years of Travelling with Purpose
Monday, July 23, 2018
Wilderness Safaris
When Wilderness Safaris registered as a company in 1983, it was the first safari outfitter at the time to realise the need for its financial benefits to flow back to the country and its people, ultimately ensuring the sustainable protection of Botswana’s diverse wilderness.
According to Wilderness CEO, Keith Vincent, even though this approach forms the cornerstone of ecotourism all over the world today, it was a groundbreaking philosophy in the early 1980s that set Wilderness Safaris apart, and set its course for the next three-and-a-half decades.
It is a clear signal that the government’s purse is empty and that our own behaviour has left veterinary officials fighting with one hand tied behind their backs. We have been here before. During COVID-19, many of us thought we knew better. We ignored simple rules, we carried on as if the danger was someone else’s problem, and the virus took lives and left our economy on its knees. We are still broke from that experience. Yet now, with FMD...