Dr Nirmal Jivan Shah

Dr Nirmal Jivan Shah

Nirmal Jivan Shah

Nirmal Jivan Shah is a mul­tiple award-win­ning Seychel­lois envir­on­ment­al­ist and sus­tain­able devel­op­ment prac­ti­tion­er with almost 40 years of exper­i­ence in the gov­ern­ment, private, and NGO sec­tors and as a con­sult­ant for the World Bank, IUCN, UNESCO, UNEP, and oth­ers. He cur­rently serves Nature Seychelles as its chief executive.

From overtourism to no tourism in Seychelles: What now for conservation?

October 27, 2020
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Seychelles is well known for its natural beauty (Photo: Nature Seychelles, Peter Chadwick)

Acclaimed envir­on­ment­al­ist and sus­tain­able devel­op­ment pro Dr Nirmal Shah has no solu­tion to con­ser­va­tion’s budget crisis in the COVID-19 era. And no-one else appears to have any answers either. In this “Good Tour­ism” Insight, the Nature Seychelles chief offers a brief his­tory of eco­tour­ism in Africa’s most pros­per­ous nation and lets us in on the […]

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