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‘Instead of scuba diving on shrinking reefs, we helped regrow them’: readers’ best conservation tourism experiences
From a sea turtle rescue centre in Italy to rewilding in the Scottish Highlands, here are some of your favourite trips that give a little back The Ropes of Hope works for coral reef restoration in the Mafia Island marine park , off Tanzania. Instead of scuba diving to see shrinking reefs, we got involved with a project regrowing them. It’s the brainchild of Jean de Villiers, a South African molecular biologist…
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