Peace Parks News
21 September 2007New tourism route launched
LADYBRAND. - A new Maloti-Drakensberg tourism route was launched at Giant's Castle in the drakensberg on Tuesday. The route links the Sehlabathebe National Park in Lesotho and the Ukhahlamba Drakensbe
4 September 2007France funds rehabilitation of Limpopo national Park
The French Development Agency will fund restoration and "biodiversity and ecosystem" protection projects in the Limpopo National Park in Mozambique.The newspaper Noticias reported that AFD h
13 August 2007Winning the battle against poverty and unemployment
AMON Sithole, works for the Wildlands Conservation Trust (the fund-raising arm of Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife). He is the project leader at Usuthu Gorge.Describing the area as poor with no hope of upliftmen
12 August 2007Park gives power to the people
It's been dubbed conservation without borders - linking South Africa`s conservation areas with those in adjoining countries. Myrtle Ryan looks at some of the spin-offs of the Lubombo Transfrontier Con
16 July 2007Makuleke Wetlands declared a Ramsar Site
ON THE International Day of Biodiversity on May 22 this year, the environment and tourism department announced the Ramsar listing of a new Wetland of International Importance: the Makuleke Wetlands in
11 July 2007DaimlerChrysler Automotive Academy
The Automotive Academy at the Southern African Wildlife was established by DaimlerChrysler Financial Services to provide basic training in auto mechanics and electronics to young people from the areas
29 June 2007Africa plans largest game park
Plans to create the world's largest game park are being finalised at a meeting in Botswana in southern Africa.The planned conservation area will straddle the borders of Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Zamb
29 June 2007DaimlerChrysler donates fourth vehicle
DaimlerChrysler donated a fourth vehicle to Peace Parks Foundation. The Mitshubishi Colt 4x4 will be used by the Regional Coordinator for the Kavango Zambezi TFCA, Mr Sedia Modise.
28 June 2007South Africa gets 8th World Heritage Site
The Richtersveld Cultural and Botanical LandscapeSTATEMENT BY THE OFFICE OF MARTHINUS VAN SCHALKWYK, MINISTER OF ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS AND TOURISM, THURSDAY 28 JUNE 2007SOUTH AFRICA GETS 8TH WORLD HER
14 June 2007Elephants tread lightly in old minefields of Angola
Research is showing that the displaced pachyderms of Africa's wartorn areas are beginning to return to their former grazing grounds, writes Leon MarshallElephants moving into warravaged southern Angol