On Sat, 10 Jan 2004 18:17:48 GMT, Liz wrote:
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(Eric Edwards) wrote:
Rwanda was $250 in 2002. Bwindi, at least, is now up to $270.

Aaah.
One of the brochures I was looking at had trips in Rwanda and Uganda, and I
noticed they were priced at "£XXXX plus permits".

I can see why!

(I hope the money goes directly to protecting the gorillas.)

I don't know the breakdown, but some of it goes to the nearby villages.
The principle is that the local people need to benefit from gorilla
tourism else they will be inclined to extract their benefit via
poaching.

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