What Is Seeing A Wild Gorilla Worth?
I often find myself in conversation justifying the cost of gorilla trekking permits, and I've come to a simple answer: the fee we pay for the privilege of meeting these beautiful, intellligent, emotional and critically endangered animals is one of the few things that stands between them and extinction.
I don't think this is right, just a sad fact of the world we live in.
Of course behind that simple answer is a vastly complex process, so let's look at how the fees we pay are used in positive ways to protect gorillas as a species.
