How Does Greg Carr Plan To Help The African Country Of Mozambique?
How much can one man do to save a desperate nation? American entrepreneur Greg Carr is finding out, throwing himself and much of his fortune into one of the poorest places on earth. Mozambique, in East Africa, is a country of spectacular beauty, but it’s been laid waste by decades of war, by malaria and by HIV. It takes a lot of vision to see opportunity there, but as correspondent Scott Pelley first reported last fall, Carr thinks he’s found it, in a wildlife park called Gorongosa, which he believes could be the salvation of a nation, and maybe a model for the world. Greg Carr wanted Scott Pelley’s first experience of Gorongosa to be just like his was four years ago – a helicopter ride to see this park’s vast size and breathtaking diversity. “When we flew over this I said, ‘This is it.’ You know, because, I mean, it’s beautiful. It’s magnificent,” Carr remembers. It’s almost 1,500 square miles of African wilderness – lakes, plains, and even a rain forest. Gorongosa spreads across the
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/03/17/60minutes/main4543667.shtml June 28, 2009 One Man’s Plan To Save A Natural Treasure U.S. Entrepreneur Is Trying To Help Mozambicans By Reviving Gorongosa National Park (CBS) — [This story was first published on Oct. 26, 2008. It was updated on June 25, 2009.] How much can one man do to save a desperate nation? American entrepreneur Greg Carr is finding out, throwing himself and much of his fortune into one of the poorest places on earth. Mozambique, in East Africa, is a country of spectacular beauty, but it’s been laid waste by decades of war, by malaria and by HIV. It takes a lot of vision to see opportunity there, but as correspondent Scott Pelley first reported last fall, Carr thinks he’s found it, in a wildlife park called Gorongosa, which he believes could be the salvation of a nation, and maybe a model for the world. . . . ——
From CBS News: “How much can one man do to save a desperate nation? American entrepreneur Greg Carr is finding out, throwing himself and much of his fortune into one of the poorest places on earth. Mozambique, in East Africa, is a country of spectacular beauty, but it’s been laid waste by decades of war, by malaria and by HIV. It takes a lot of vision to see opportunity there, but as correspondent Scott Pelley first reported last fall, Carr thinks he’s found it, in a wildlife park called Gorongosa, which he believes could be the salvation of a nation, and maybe a model for the world. Carr’s non-profit foundation has an agreement with the Mozambican government to develop Gorongosa Park over the next 20 years.
