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ABOUT KATE WEBB

I'm a Canadian journalist who has recently hopped the pond to Kent, U.K. to work for Northcliffe Media. My main reporting interests are political, environmental and investigative, but I also love adventure travel stories.

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Friday
07Aug2009

Canadians show how tourism can nurture

The Province, Fri Aug 7 2009, Page: A18/News

Diego Gamboa, 2, is one of 7,000 children who live in the Galapagos Islands. KW photo.As a British Columbian, I'm inspired every day by the immense natural beauty of this province and questions about how it can be properly protected.

When the opportunity came up in May to travel to Ecuador to write a series about Canadian development assistance, the same questions seemed even more pressing. The tiny South American country is the eighth most biologically diverse in the world, and its natural habitats are constantly being hacked back by mining and oil companies, urban development and the growing pains of modernization.

Read the full story here.

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