“They're just paper parks”—90% of African PAs underfunded, study finds; US$1.2B/year needed to fix

As if illegal mining, logging and poaching weren’t bad enough, Africa’s national parks face another dire threat: They’re vastly underfunded.

According the most comprehensive analysis of conservation funding to date, 90 percent of nearly 300 protected areas on the continent face funding shortfalls. Together, the deficits total at least a billion dollars.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/22/science/africa-conservation-parks-funding.html