I thought of an idea of turning poachers to farmers, i left them with that and they started farming, and when I came back six months after I found they had harvested enough -- they had enough food at home, but they were [also] selling more in the markets.

Edwin Sabuhoro

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It was magical, he sat right there and looked me straight in the eye. I felt something in me that I couldn't define.

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One old man looked at me and said, 'Your kids are starving to death. Would you poach to feed your family?' it was an eye-opener for me.

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We had a lot of cases of poachers ... killing, setting snares, cu... by Edwin Sabuhoro

We had a lot of cases of poachers ... killing, setting snares, cutting bamboo.

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I started a tour company called Rwanda Eco Tours, and I said for tourism to thrive in the country we need eco-tourism where tourists can give back to the community and then the communities will have an incentive to conserve the park. So we built a cultural village in 2006 -- before we finished, we had tourists visiting us. in 2010, we got $30,000 net income from the cultural village and put this back to different activities in the village level.

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If we can work together, on a regional level, continent level, we can save these species, because these are the last species that we have. And as human beings we can't afford to fail the wildlife.

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That's when I decided that what I was doing was not part of giving a solution to what is wanted outside the park.

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