Travel Africa

The only international magazine dedicated to exploring Africa's diverse attractions, national parks, wildlife, culture and history. Travel Africa draws on some of the world's top photographers, writers and experts to create an inspiring and practical resource for anyone interested in the world's most exciting continent.

Travel Africa

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Evolutionary tales • Sarah Marshall has travelled extensively across Africa, visiting all corners, over two decades. Here, she reflects on the changes she has witnessed and ponders what her future adventures will look like. Does this echo your own experiences?

Completing the circle • The reason tourism matters has shifted quite significantly in recent decades, ensuring greater rewards for all. Pippa de Bruyn explains

More to explore • In recent decades Africa’s travel landscape has expanded dramatically, spreading the benefits of tourism to considerably more remote areas and giving travellers evermore opportunities to immerse themselves in the continent’s abundant natural spaces. With so much to choose from, we encourage you to venture further afield, visit somewhere new, mix up the experiences…

WHO PAYS FOR THE WILD? • Paul Harrison of Nature Investment looks at what it takes, at a strategic level, to open up and sustain Africa’s wild places… and how the finance actually works

Organisations AT WORK

THE LONG GAME • The transformation and protection of Africa’s landscapes in recent decades has been a significant and positive shift. This has been driven by a large cohort of conservation bodies, international donor agencies, philanthropists and governments working together around a collective vision. Among them is African Parks, which today shares responsibility for the long-term management of 24 national parks and reserves spanning over 20 million hectares across 13 countries - the largest and most ecologically diverse of any conservation organisation on the continent. Sue Watt spoke to founder and CEO Peter Fearnhead about tourism, challenges, successes and future plans

SUCCESS STORIES • Over the last few decades there has been an extraordinary effort to revive struggling national parks across the continent, giving impetus to conservation and economic development while enabling travellers to access once again some of Africa’s greatest wild spaces. Much of this work is being done in inhospitable areas to secure important landscapes for the future. And some has transformed more accessible parks into thriving destinations. Here, Sue Watt selects just five for you to add to your bucket list.

LEVERAGING THE BUFFER • The landscapes neighbouring national parks have become valuable conservation tools, creating wider tourism opportunities in the process. Sarah Kingdom looks at Zambia as a case study

Boundless HORIZONS • Ecosystems across southern Africa are now jointly managed by 11 countries with the aim of conserving nature and bringing the benefits of tourism to rural areas. It’s good news for all, including travellers, says Dianne Tipping-Woods

WHY TFCAS MATTER

THE RISE OF THE CONSERVANCY • The need for a more integrated approach to managing landscapes has resulted in a proliferation of conservancies across the continent; a quiet revolution that has opened swathes of land for tourists, offering a more holistic experience.

THE NAMIBIAN COLLECTION

Beyond the parks: EXPANDED HORIZONS • Nowhere is the proliferation of the conservancy model more visible than in Kenya. What does this mean for visitors, asks Paul Udoto?

ENONKISHU CONSERVANCY, GREATER MARA

How to create A CONSERVANCY • A new community conservancy is set to boost tourism to Uganda’s northern Kidepo region. Peter Muiruri finds out about the process involved in getting it established

Renewed INTEREST •...