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No # Travel can help preserve destinations, as local people learn that there is more economic value in preserving nature for tourists than in farming or timber harvesting.
# Visiting endangered places does make one appreciate the natural world and its.
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In this photo released by NBC, “Today” show’s Ann Curry climbs Mount Kilimanjaro, in November 2008, in Tanzania, as part of the “Today” show’s “Ends of the Earth” series. The NBC reporter was sent on assignment for the popular morning show’s...
