Inside Prince Harry's efforts to preserve African parks

摘要

In 2016, Prince Harry flew over a forest reserve in southern Malawi called Mangochi. He was shocked by what he saw. Though the reserve borders one of the country's most popular safari destinations, it looked badly deforested and neglected. People hadstarted moving in past the park's borders. "These communities are encroaching way beyond where they should be and this whole place is on fire," he recalls thinking.Malawi, a sliver of a country tucked into the borders of Mozambique, Zambia, and Tanzania, straddles the environment of both southern and east Africa. The electricity-poor region is reliant on charcoal for energy and reportedly has the highest rate of deforestation in the region. As conservation groups begin to tackle this crisis, a royal effort hopes to exert enough pressure to keep the indigenous forests preserved.