Policy harmonisation

The harmonisation and integration of various policies to improve the cooperative management of the Transfrontier Park are under way. → read more…

Background

Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park straddles the borders of Mozambique, South Africa and Zimbabwe and joins some of the most established wildlife areas in Southern Africa into a huge conservation area of 35 000km² (± the size of the Netherlands). This forms the core of the second-phase transfrontier conservation area (TFCA), measuring almost 100 000km² - the world's greatest animal kingdom.

The larger transfrontier conservation area will include Banhine and Zinave national parks, the Massingir and Corumana areas and interlinking regions in Mozambique, as well as various privately and state-owned conservation areas in South Africa and Zimbabwe bordering on the Transfrontier Park.

Progress

© 2009 Michael Viljoen The three heads of state signed a treaty establishing Great Limpopo on 9 December 2002. In 2006 the Giriyondo Access Facility between the Kruger and Limpopo national parks was opened. Almost 5 000 animals have been translocated from Kruger to Limpopo National Park. This, combined with 50 km of fence being dropped, has encouraged more animals, including about 1 000 elephants, to cross the border of their own accord. The harmonisation and integration of various policies to improve the cooperative management of the Transfrontier Park are under way. Processes such as standardising a fee and rate structure, introducing a border-crossing protocol and a tourism strategy that will optimise the Transfrontier Park’s tourism development opportunities, in particular cross-border products, are also far advanced.

Current Projects

© Koos van der Lende Mozambique proclaimed Limpopo National Park on 27 November 2001 and requested Peace Parks Foundation's assistance in overseeing its development as a SADC-approved project, funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development throughKfW, Agence Française de Développement (AFD), the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) and the World Bank. In 2001 a project implementation unit was set up to develop this million-hectare park.

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