Controversial tour operator Wilderness Safaris has won a 'World Savers Award', despite erecting a luxury tourist lodge with swimming pool on the land of Kalahari Bushmen who are struggling for water.
Wilderness Safaris opened the Kalahari Plains Camp inside the Central Kalahari Game Reserve in 2009, having failed to consult the Bushmen on whose ancestral lands the lodge sits. The lodge sports a bar and swimming pool for tourists, while Bushmen in the reserve are banned from accessing a well which they rely on for water.
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