Paradise Inc.

"Paradise Inc. is the culmination of a twenty-year effort to document the final days of the great East African wilderness. It is the result of numerous expeditions into the African bush, during which I visited nearly every country on the continent. As a Frenchman with Malagasy heritage, born in Madagascar and raised in Kenya, I have witnessed firsthand the dramatic changes reshaping the continent over the past three decades through my work as a documentary photographer. The purpose of all these trips was to explore the remaining wildernesses of Eastern Africa which has been my home for a long time, and to observe and document the efforts of those people who are trying to preserve them." [Back Cover]



PARADISE INC. looks at the issues of climate change and the precarious conditions under which the wild world survives in the face of human activity, as well as the impact of Western influence and the double standards of international policies on financial aid and nature conservation. It also looks at the hundreds of millions of dollars invested in conservation over the last forty years, often without significant results.