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Lubombo TFCA, Maputo Special Reserve
Opening of Marine Reserve’s headquarters, Mozambique
27 May 2011
On 17 May 2011, Mr Fernando Sumbana, Mozambique’s Minister of Tourism, officially opened the headquarters of the Ponta do Ouro Partial Marine Reserve in the Lubombo Transfrontier Conservation and Resource Area (TFCA). Minister Sumbana said that this was an important day for conservation in Mozambique and a significant step in the development of this, Africa’s first marine TFCA.
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Community to develop ecotourist lodge in Maputo Special Reserve, Lubombo TFCA
05 May 2011
On 25 March 2011, the Ahi Zameni Chemucane, a community association representing 850 people from three rural Mozambican communities, signed a 25-year partnership agreement with the Bell Foundation to develop a luxury ecotourist...
Lubombo TFCA, Maputo Special Reserve
Development of Mozambique’s Maputo Special Reserve
21 Sep 2010
The first wildlife translocation to Maputo Special Reserve took place from 14 - 16 September 2010.
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Transfrontier marine park a first
21 Oct 2009
Africa’s first – and largest – transfrontier marine conservation area has been established, connecting Maputaland in South Africa’s World Heritage Site, the iSimangaliso Wetland Park, with Mozambique’s first marine conservancy, the Ponto de...
Lubombo TFCA, Maputo Special Reserve
Mozambique woos tourists
21 Nov 2007
Mozambique plans to draw tourists back to its national parks by encouraging international hotel chains to provide luxury accommodation and so end the image of the existing tourism facilities as being old huts...
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Mozambique helped to conserve wild places, develop ecotourism
15 Dec 2005
The conservation of biodiversity and natural ecosystems in Mozambique on Africa's southeastern coast is about to receive supportive grants totalling $33.7 million from the World Bank, the Global Environment Facility and the...
Lubombo TFCA, Maputo Special Reserve
Extension of Maputo Special Reserve
19 Oct 2005
The Mozambican authorities have begun the process of extending the Maputo Special Reserve in order to link it, via the Futi Corridor, to Tembe Elephant Park in South Africa.
