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Suzanne Bayly-Coupe is the owner of Classic Portfolio, a strategic marketing company that works with a collection of privately-owned lodges and camps across 14 African countries. Peter and Suzanne discuss the impact COVID-19 is having on smaller lodges and camps across Africa. Suzanne talks about the cost of conservation efforts and how hard it is for camps to sustain them without any guests. As staff at remote lodges are let go, there has been a rise in poaching, and years of conservation work are being undone. Suzanne talks about the need for future bookings paid in full for the lodges to keep themselves afloat, and about the philanthropists who are stepping in where governments are lacking. This episode is really useful for those of us in Europe, it allows us to examine how other parts of the world are faring in these times.\\xa0