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Lubombo TFCA, Ponta do Ouro Partial Marine Reserve
Protecting Turtles And Marine Life
16 February 2016
The turtle monitoring season is in full swing in the Ponta do Ouro Partial Marine Reserve, the Mozambican component of the Ponta do Ouro-Kosi Bay TFCA, Africa's first cross-border marine reserve, in the Lubombo TFCA. The turtle monitoring programme links up with the one across the border in South Africa's iSimangaliso Wetland Park, a World Heritage Site, where turtles have been monitored since 1963.
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Chemucane Community Students Trained
27 Oct 2015
Altogether 18 members of the Chemucane community in Mozambique have been specially trained to work at the community’s 22-bed lodge, from which about 980 people will benefit. Ms Nonhlanhla Zwalaka, an SA College...
Community Development, Lubombo TFCA, Maputo Special Reserve, SA College for Tourism
Community Development Facility Making Progress
28 Aug 2015
Significant progress has been made in the Community Development Facility in the Mozambican component of the Lubombo TFCA.
Community Development, General, Lubombo TFCA, Mozambique Community Development
Building The Future Of Biodiversity Conservation In Mozambique
22 Jun 2015
President Filipe Nyusi officially launched BIOFUND on 10 June 2015 at an event in Maputo attended by international and national conservation and development partners, ambassadors, ministers, NGOs, and dignitaries of Mozambique.
Lubombo TFCA, Maputo Special Reserve, Rewilding
A Transfrontier Conservation Success Story: First Phase Of Wildlife Translocation Concluded
13 May 2015
This month will see the conclusion of the first phase of wildlife translocations to Mozambique’s Maputo Special Reserve with the introduction of 98 zebra and 117 blue wildebeest.
Lubombo TFCA, Maputo Special Reserve, Ponta do Ouro Partial Marine Reserve
Further Exquisite Coral Reefs Revealed
01 May 2015
Marine biologists from Centro Terra Viva and Ponta do Ouro Partial Marine Reserve conducted an annual reef survey in the marine reserve from 23 - 27 March 2015. In just four dives, the...
Lubombo TFCA, Ponta do Ouro Partial Marine Reserve
Turtle monitoring programme
28 Feb 2015
On 14 July 2009 the government of Mozambique took a significant step in protecting its coastline when it declared a 678 km² marine protected area, stretching from Ponta do Ouro in the south...
