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What it means to be GREEN

Seven years does not seem to be enough time in which to completely change a game; and yet that is how long it’s taken for the African safari industry to go from being noticeably brown to convincingly green.

It is also the length of time since Colin Bell and I conducted an extensive survey of 250 safari camps across the continent — for the Africa’s Finest project (www.africasfinest.co.za) — looking for the 50 greenest ones.

Back then it was hard

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