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From recovery to a stronger future: Zinave’s path to resilience
Zinave National Park has come back from decades of disruption. The next step is to build on that recovery, because the true test of conservation is not only what can be restored, but what can be made to last. Wildlife populations are returning. Infrastructure is being rebuilt. Communities surrounding the park are gaining improved access to services, livelihoods and economic […]
Old wisdom, new choices: how communities in Simalaha are restoring land and livelihoods
Restoring degraded land starts with something many thought impossible: hundreds of households agreeing to manage it together. Across Zambia’s Simalaha Community Conservancy, people are restoring rangelands and revitalising livelihoods through collective grazing management. Rather than every household deciding independently where cattle graze, farmers now work through Village Action Groups and Grazing Area Committees to plan […]
Hot peppers, cool solution
In drought-stricken Zambia, chilli farming is helping families beat hunger, protect their crops and coexist with wildlife. When the rain failed, chillies didn’t. Zambia’s climate crisis hit hard in 2023. Facing its worst agricultural season in four decades, nine million people were affected and over five million faced hunger. Amid this crisis, farmers in Simalaha […]
Mapai workshop drives corridor vision forward: Why wildlife pathways matter
A workshop in Mozambique’s Mapai District of the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Conservation Area marked an important step in putting a national plan into action: to connect Limpopo, Banhine and Zinave national parks through specifically designated ecological corridors. Ecological corridors are natural routes that help animals move safely between protected areas. They play a vital role […]
Prosperity and peace meet in the Limpopo landscape
Peace Parks Foundation works in transboundary landscape restoration with a focus on rewilding protected areas whilst protecting and supporting the communities that live alongside national parks and wildlife reserves. In Mozambique, successful rewilding initiatives have been implemented along with numerous community development programmes to ensure peaceful co-existence. The Limpopo National Park Livelihoods Improvement Programme The […]
Herding for Health celebrates five years in Limpopo National Park
This August, Conservation International and Peace Parks Foundation celebrate five years of Herding for Health in Mozambique’s Limpopo National Park (LNP). The programme rewarded 25 Herding for Health champions who have been part of this incredible community upliftment and landscape restoration project since the beginning. At the event, communities were invited to see the Herding […]
Kavango Zambezi and beyond: how you can help protect bird life in flight
The mighty Kavango Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA TFCA) is the largest transboundary landscape in the world, and Peace Parks Foundation has been working with member states to support its development since 2004. Its vast and remarkable mosaic of ecosystems is spread across five countries, encouraging abundant wildlife populations to roam freely across borders. Throughout […]
