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- [Leadership programme for protected area management across the SADC region, starting in southern Mozambique](https://www.peaceparks.org/leadership-programme-for-protected-area-management-across-the-sadc-region-starting-in-southern-mozambique/) - The Administração Nacional das Áreas de Conservação (ANAC), in partnership with the Southern African Development Community (SADC), the Government of Germany and Peace Parks Foundation, is strengthening leadership across four national parks through a targeted development programme for 43 current and emerging protected area leaders. Collectively, these participants oversee approximately 378 rangers responsible for protecting
- [Ten Years. Thousands of Hours. One Big Five National Park.](https://www.peaceparks.org/ten-years-thousands-of-hours-one-big-five-national-park/) - Mozambique's first Big Five national park wasn't created when nine white rhinos stepped out of their crates. By then, the hard work had already been done.
- [Restoring hope and nature: How communities are reducing climate shocks in coastal Mozambique ](https://www.peaceparks.org/restoring-hope-and-nature-how-communities-are-reducing-climate-shocks-in-coastal-mozambique/) - In southern Mozambique, communities are stepping up to protect and restore nature, proving that climate action, conservation and community empowerment go hand in hand.
- [His Majesty the Litunga joins Peace Parks Foundation Board](https://www.peaceparks.org/his-majesty-the-litunga-joins-peace-parks-foundation-board/) - Stellenbosch, South Africa/Western Province, Zambia – 28 April 2026 Peace Parks Foundation today announced the appointment of His Majesty the Litunga, Lubosi Imwiko II of the Western Province, Zambia, to its Board of Directors. The Foundation is deeply honoured to welcome His Majesty, whose leadership in western Zambia has placed the protection of land and
- [First comprehensive survey establishes baseline for protection of Maputo National Park's Techobanine Reef System](https://www.peaceparks.org/first-comprehensive-survey-establishes-baseline-for-protection-of-maputo-national-parks-techobanine-reef-system/) - he Techobanine Reef System forms part of the Maputaland Hope Spot, designated by Mission Blue in 2024.
- [A New Generation Begins: Final Female Rhinos Arrive in Zinave National Park ](https://www.peaceparks.org/a-new-generation-begins-final-female-rhinos-arrive-in-zinave-national-park/) - The last of three major translocations strengthens Zinave’s breeding population and advances a long-term mission to restore rhinos to one of Africa’s most remarkable conservation recovery stories This week, Mozambique completed the final phase of a landmark rhino restoration effort, with nine female white rhinos successfully translocated to Zinave National Park in a complex cross-border operation. The latest arrivals mark an
- [Community leaders help shape landscape governance across Greater Kruger](https://www.peaceparks.org/community-leaders-help-shape-landscape-governance-across-greater-kruger/) - How do communities become part of systems shaping safety, conservation and decision-making across one of southern Africa’s most complex conservation landscapes? This question brought together 52 community representatives from across the Greater Kruger landscape, alongside government officials, conservation authorities and technical experts, at a three-day workshop hosted by the Southern African Wildlife College. Across the
- [In Conversation with Dr. Bartolomeu Soto](https://www.peaceparks.org/in-conversation-with-dr-bartolomeu-soto/) - Reflecting on over a decade of strategic collaboration: Mozambique’s National Administration for Conservation Areas (ANAC) recently celebrated 15 years of conservation leadership. At the anniversary celebrations in Maputo, Peace Parks Foundation was recognised for its long-term commitment and dedication to conservation in the country. The recognition was jointly received by former Mozambican President and Vice
- [Powered by players, protecting landscapes](https://www.peaceparks.org/powered-by-players-protecting-landscapes/) - In 2026, Peace Parks Foundation received extraordinary flexible support from three long-standing Postcode Lottery partners.
- [Creating Space: Angola and a New Future for the Largest Elephant Population in the World](https://www.peaceparks.org/creating-space-angola-and-a-new-future-for-the-largest-elephant-population-in-the-world/) - Blog by Werner Myburgh, CEO, Peace Parks Foundation Across southern Africa, elephants are under pressure not only from poaching and conflict. In many places, they are simply running out of space. Luengue-Luiana National Park in Angola is important because it sits at the centre of one of Africa’s most significant conservation opportunities. As part of
- [How connected landscapes are shaping the future of conservation](https://www.peaceparks.org/how-connected-landscapes-are-shaping-the-future-of-conservation/) - The Global Affairs Canada-funded Restoring African Rangelands Project Across southern Africa, conservation is increasingly moving beyond fenced parks and into shared landscapes where people, wildlife and livelihoods depend on the same land. In the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Conservation Area, a major cross-border initiative supported by Global Affairs Canada and implemented by six partners across three
- [An end-of-year message from our CEO](https://www.peaceparks.org/from-grassroots-to-great-plains-how-partnerships-drove-conservation-successes-in-2024/) - The development of alliances at all levels is at the core of how we are accelerating impact towards our 2050 vision of securing 980,000 km2 of functioning transboundary landscapes in southern Africa where people and nature live together in harmony. Partnerships with governments, communities, and like-minded organisations have been highlights of 2024. We signed another
- [How Peace Parks’ new era of developing communities in southern Africa is shifting the global conservation trend](https://www.peaceparks.org/15339-2/) - Zinhane, Mozambique – Ana Marta Francisco Chaúque viewed with pride the clearing where she stood. Two hectares of land had been planted with crops, and an additional five hectares were earmarked for this purpose. This small community development initiative represents a significant leap forward for conservation in southern Africa. By improving their agricultural practices, Chaúque
- [New partnership begins for Luengue–Luiana National Park](https://www.peaceparks.org/new-partnership-sets-course-for-luengue-luianas-recovery/) - Agreement between Angola and Peace Parks Foundation to boost conservation and community development in south-eastern Angola A new partnership between the Angolan Government and Peace Parks Foundation aims to strengthen conservation for Angola’s largest protected area, Luengue-Luiana National Park, and support benefits for local communities. A Memorandum of Understanding signed last week by Miguel Xavier, Director-General of Angola’s National
- [Bringing wilderness back from the brink](https://www.peaceparks.org/bringing-wilderness-back-from-the-brink/) - Maputo National Park has recovered so strongly that it can now help restore Banhine National Park, a landscape equally rich in potential.
- [“Exhausted and proud”: How we rallied to help flood-affected communities ](https://www.peaceparks.org/exhausted-and-proud-how-limpopo-national-park-rallied-to-help-flood-affected-communities/) - When Stephen Wright took up his new post as Peace Parks Foundation’s Head of Operations and Development at Limpopo National Park in September last year, he could not have foreseen the test that he and his team would face just a few months later. Extremely heavy rainfall from late December caused severe flooding across southern Mozambique, cutting off more than 27,000 people living
- [President Professor Arthur Peter Mutharika of The Republic of Malawi appointed Peace Parks Foundation patron ](https://www.peaceparks.org/president-professor-arthur-peter-mutharika-of-the-republic-of-malawi-appointed-peace-parks-foundation-patron/) - Patronage strengthens regional cooperation for long-term transboundary landscape stewardship and biodiversity conservation Peace Parks Foundation is pleased to announce the appointment of His Excellency Professor Arthur Peter Mutharika, President of the Republic of Malawi, as patron. The appointment reflects a shared commitment to the long-term stewardship of southern Africa’s transboundary landscapes, where healthy ecosystems and the communities who depend on
- [Urgent response brings relief to thousands after Mozambique’s devastating floods](https://www.peaceparks.org/urgent-response-brings-hope-to-thousands-after-mozambiques-devastating-floods/) - Twelve more communities have been reached with life-saving supplies in the past week, as roads reopen and relief efforts scale up. This brings the total to 41 villages reached within our operational area. Additional villages are expected to become reachable in the coming weeks, as repairs to roads and bridges continue. Almost half of the estimated
- [Mozambique flood relief update: 13 February](https://www.peaceparks.org/mozambique-flood-relief-update-13-february/) - Flooding in southern Mozambique Peace Parks Foundation has been responding to severe flooding affecting communities around Limpopo, Banhine and Zinave national parks, following the Mozambican Government’s declaration of a state of emergency and formal call for assistance. While floodwaters have mostly receded, some villages remain cut off in areas still experiencing very high water levels.
- [How a 20-year pact in Malawi is reshaping conservation governance](https://www.peaceparks.org/how-a-20-year-pact-in-malawi-is-reshaping-conservation-governance/) - In the Nyika Vwaza landscape, shared governance and long-term planning are offering a durable alternative to short-term conservation funding models. In Malawi’s Nyika Vwaza landscape, a long-term co-management agreement is aligning government authority, community participation and sustainable financing around the recovery of two nationally important protected areas. At a time when short-term conservation projects and
- [Peace Parks Foundation Welcomes Dr. Luísa Diogo to the Board ](https://www.peaceparks.org/peace-parks-foundation-welcomes-dr-luisa-diogo-to-the-board/) - Peace Parks Foundation is delighted to announce the appointment of Dr. Luísa Dias Diogo to its Board of Directors.
- [Statement by Joaquim Chissano, Vice-Chairman of Peace Parks Foundation, on the Passing of Dr Luísa Dias Diogo](https://www.peaceparks.org/statement-by-joaquim-chissano-vice-chairman-of-peace-parks-foundation-on-the-passing-of-dr-luisa-dias-diogo/) - It is with profound sorrow and deep regret that Peace Parks Foundation received news of the passing of Dr Luísa Dias Diogo, a member of our Board of Directors. Dr Diogo served the Republic of Mozambique with outstanding competence, integrity and a strong sense of State responsibility. She held the senior positions of Minister of
- [H.E. Daniel Francisco Chapo, President of Mozambique, Joins Peace Parks Foundation as Patron](https://www.peaceparks.org/president-of-mozambique-joins-peace-parks-foundation-as-patron-2/) - Peace Parks Foundation is delighted to announce the appointment of His Excellency Daniel Francisco Chapo, President of the Republic of Mozambique, as Patron. President Chapo joins a distinguished group of leaders committed to promoting biodiversity conservation and regional cooperation across Southern Africa. In accepting the invitation, President Chapo reaffirmed his commitment to making conservation a
- [2025: The Year in Review](https://www.peaceparks.org/ceo-end-of-year-message-the-power-of-vision-partnerships-and-persistence/) - A Year of Progress I am proud to reflect on a year that has been significantly impactful for Peace Parks Foundation. We made great strides in advancing our unique model of integrated co-management in Southern Africa. Co-management Breakthroughs This model brings together governments, local communities, private sector partners and civil society to manage parks using
- [CEO Blog: Why the Future of Conservation Lies with Africa – Coexistence and Robust Governance Are Non-Negotiable](https://www.peaceparks.org/why-the-future-of-conservation-lies-with-africa-coexistence-and-robust-governance-are-non-negotiable/) - By Werner Myburgh, CEO, Peace Parks Foundation Africa’s Conservation Future In the next 30 to 50 years, Africa’s conservation will face unprecedented challenges that demand a fundamentally new approach. With the trends already evident, the decisions we make now will define whether people, wildlife and ecosystems can remain healthy in a rapidly changing world. Unprecedented
- [In conversation with George Nxumayo](https://www.peaceparks.org/in-conversation-with-george-nxumayo/) - George Nxumayo’s connection to the Nyika-Vwaza landscape runs deep. He first started working in and around Vwaza Marsh Wildlife Reserve nearly two decades ago, in 2005. Today, as CEO of the Nyika-Vwaza Co-management Trust, he draws on a lifetime of conservation and community experience to guide one of Malawi’s most ecologically important regions toward a future that’s both sustainable and inclusive.
- [Transformative conservation project in Maputo National Park](https://www.peaceparks.org/transformative-conservation-project-in-maputo-national-park/) - In a landscape where elephants roam coastal dunes and mangrove forests shelter countless marine species, a new partnership is creating pathways for both nature and communities to thrive. A collaboration between the TUI Care Foundation and Maputo National Park is set to demonstrate how tourism can be a genuine force for positive change. Restoring nature's
- [Partners4Nature](https://www.peaceparks.org/partners4nature/) - Peace Parks Foundation set out on a mission that has become one of Africa's largest nature conservation initiatives. But we cannot do it alone. The vistas are too vast, the challenges too real, the need too urgent. This is why we need partners and the expertise and investment they bring to the large landscapes where
- [How three nations are advancing human-wildlife coexistence across boundaries](https://www.peaceparks.org/how-three-nations-are-advancing-human-wildlife-coexistence-across-boundaries/) - Government agencies, community leaders, and conservation partners from Mozambique, South Africa, and Zimbabwe gathered in Maputo National Park from 12 to 14 August for a hands-on learning exchange focused on reducing conflict between people and wild animals.
- [An unexpected honour](https://www.peaceparks.org/an-unexpected-honour/) - Professor Andrew Nambota received a Medal for Excellent Efforts from Christina von Arbin, Chair of the Royal Patriotic Society of Sweden
- [Smart parks, safe paths: How a digital shield is rewriting Zambia’s elephant story  ](https://www.peaceparks.org/smart-parks-safe-paths-how-a-digital-shield-is-rewriting-zambias-elephant-story/) - Watering spots in Sikunzu farming settlement used to be the bane of farmers’ lives. An approaching elephant bull could cause significant damage to a crop in minutes, leaving livelihoods in tatters. In community meetings, families living along well-used elephant paths were urged to relocate their homes or put curfews in place to avoid night-time encounters.
- [In Conversation with Rachael Sinyama](https://www.peaceparks.org/in-conversation-with-rachael-sinyama/) - Rachael Kuliwa Sinyama leads the Kafue Zambezi Community Forest Project and other REDD+ initiatives in Zambia’s Western Province.
- [Maputo National Park joins the world stage as Mozambique’s first natural World Heritage Site](https://www.peaceparks.org/maputo-national-park-joins-the-world-stage-as-mozambiques-first-natural-world-heritage-site/) - UNESCO has officially inscribed Maputo National Park as a World Heritage Site, marking a significant achievement for Mozambique and a major step forward for biodiversity protection on the African continent. “This is a proud and historic moment for Mozambique,” said the Secretary of State for Land and Environment, Gustavo Dgedge. “To be recognised by UNESCO
- [Building a future that nurtures people and landscapes](https://www.peaceparks.org/building-a-future-that-nurtures-people-and-landscapes/) - Peace Parks Foundation’s conservation success demonstrates the power of partnerships Conservation that is resilient is never a singular effort. It flourishes through collaboration – governments, communities, conservationists, and donors united by a shared commitment to protect nature and uplift those who call it home. Peace Parks Foundation is a force for change on two powerful
- [Nature turning on the taps: New water scheme brings safe drinking water to 18,000 Malawians](https://www.peaceparks.org/nature-turning-on-the-taps-new-water-scheme-brings-safe-drinking-water-to-18000-malawians/) - The President of Malawi, the Hon. Lazarus Chakwera, today switched on the taps of a transformative community development project, the Nyika Vwaza Water Supply Scheme
- [Crime syndicates are plundering Zambia’s heritage plant – why it matters](https://www.peaceparks.org/crime-syndicates-are-plundering-zambias-heritage-plant-why-it-matters/) - In western Zambia’s Sioma Ngwezi National Park, a little-known medicinal plant is vanishing – not from overuse by local communities, but at the hands of international crime syndicates.
- [Building Futures: Maputo National Park’s Strategy to Improve Human-Wildlife Co-existence](https://www.peaceparks.org/building-co-existence-maputo-national-parks-strategy-to-reduce-human-wildlife-clashes/) - After a civil war that devastated Mozambique’s wildlife and landscapes over 16 years, Maputo National Park is once again teeming with life. Situated in one of the world’s most biologically rich eco-regions, the park has become a symbol of hope and renewal – but not without challenges. As conservation efforts successfully restored the ecosystem, the
- [Public notice: Stakeholder consultation for the extension of iSimangaliso Wetland Park World Heritage Site](https://www.peaceparks.org/public-notice-stakeholder-consultation-for-the-extension-of-isimangaliso-wetland-park-world-heritage-site/) - Background The Government of Mozambique is currently embarking on a process of inscribing its Maputo National Park as a Transboundary World Heritage Site through the extension of the existing iSimangaliso Wetland Park World Heritage Site. To this effect, the Government of Mozambique has contacted the Government of South Africa soliciting support for this initiative. It
- [How a park was born between two presidential signatures](https://www.peaceparks.org/how-a-park-was-born-between-two-presidential-signatures/) - Blog by Werner Myburgh, Peace Parks Foundation CEO Last month marked 25 years since Africa’s first transfrontier park was born – one that holds a special place in my heart because of a day I’ll never forget. It was in April 1999, in my first year working for Peace Parks Foundation, when we were a
- [In Conversation with Judge Twea](https://www.peaceparks.org/in-conversation-with-judge-twea/) - Taking the Nyika-Vwaza landscape to new heights. Meet His Honour Mr Edward Twea, retired Judge President of the Supreme Court of Appeal in Malawi and recently appointed Board Chairperson of the Nyika-Vwaza Co-management Trust. In this guiding role, Judge Twea brings a powerful voice to the protection of one of Malawi’s most vital landscapes. His
- [Transformative impact on Mozambique's protected areas in 2024](https://www.peaceparks.org/transformative-impact-on-mozambiques-protected-areas-in-2024/) - The Government of Mozambique is working with dedicated partners to enhance the immense value of its natural heritage.
- [Maputo National Park - a lost paradise reborn](https://www.peaceparks.org/a-lost-paradise-reborn/) - Blog by Werner Myburgh, Peace Parks Foundation CEO about the ongoing journey of Maputo National Park - Now a World Heritage Site The story of Maputo National Park, now recognised as a World Heritage Site, is one that I have had the privilege of being part of for many years. I witnessed and actively participated
- [In Conversation with Tildah Angoni,](https://www.peaceparks.org/flying-for-conservation-qa-with-tildah-angoni/) - Meet Tildah Angoni, Peace Parks Foundation’s newly deployed helicopter pilot, stationed in Mozambique’s Limpopo National Park.
- [Zinave National Park in Mozambique leads rhino renaissance](https://www.peaceparks.org/14968-2/) - Zinave National Park in Mozambique has become a haven for the critically endangered black and endangered white rhino in a spectacular rewilding effort that has helped create the nation’s first ‘big five’ national park, making it a global tourist attraction. This turnaround is remarkable after a 16-year civil war emptied the lush landscape of wildlife.
- [Revolutionising conservation: Innovative new partnership ignites a thriving future for the Greater Mana Pools Ecosystem ](https://www.peaceparks.org/revolutionising-conservation-innovative-new-partnership-ignites-a-thriving-future-for-the-greater-mana-pools-ecosystem/) - With the recent appointment of the first director of the Greater Mana Pools Ecosystem, it is poised to elevate its status as a premier conservation area with the potential to make a significant contribution to Zimbabwe’s socio-economic development.
- [Mapai workshop drives corridor vision forward: Why wildlife pathways matter](https://www.peaceparks.org/mapai-workshop-drives-corridor-vision-forward/) - 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
- [Hot peppers, cool solution](https://www.peaceparks.org/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
- [Africa’s Largest Community Forest Carbon Project launched in Zambia](https://www.peaceparks.org/africas-largest-community-forest-carbon-project-launched-in-zambia/) - The Barotse Royal Establishment officially launches the Kafue Zambezi Community Forest Project, driving sustainable conservation and community impact forward.
- [When nature has tangible benefits for people, they will protect it](https://www.peaceparks.org/when-nature-has-tangible-benefits-for-people-they-will-protect-it/) - Blog by Werner Myburgh, Peace Parks Foundation CEO Conservation areas have a lot to offer to the people living in remote landscapes. They have the potential to offer healthy food, clean water, fresh air and jobs in nature-based tourism. Yet these fruits of joint conservation efforts are not always immediately realised. With this in mind,
- [Black rhino founder population returns to Mozambique](https://www.peaceparks.org/black-rhino-founder-population-return-to-mozambique/) - This week, 10 additional critically endangered black rhinos were successfully translocated from South Africa to Zinave National Park
- [A new chapter for Banhine National Park: Communities start sharing revenue benefits](https://www.peaceparks.org/a-new-chapter-for-banhine-national-park-communities-start-sharing-revenue-benefits/) - For the first time since its creation over 50 years ago, Banhine National Park in Mozambique is directly sharing revenue benefits with the surrounding communities.
- [Victory for nature: How Zinave National Park is winning the war against illegal logging](https://www.peaceparks.org/15326-2/) - In a significant triumph for conservation efforts in Mozambique, illegal logging has been halted in Zinave National Park due to co-ordinated action to disrupt these operations by confiscating equipment and imposing steep fines on those arrested. The focus has now shifted to the buffer zones around the park, and to investments being made in the
- [The transformative impact of Herding for Health](https://www.peaceparks.org/the-transformative-impact-of-herding-for-health/) - through the Herding for Health programme, a partnership between Conservation International and Peace Parks Foundation, women are making significant impacts in areas typically dominated by men.
- [A funnel, helicopter and team of 6: The day that Zinave National Park turned a remarkable corner in recovery](https://www.peaceparks.org/a-funnel-helicopter-and-team-of-6-the-day-that-zinave-national-park-turned-a-remarkable-corner-in-recovery/) - A bittersweet realisation dawned on Bernard van Lente, Peace Parks Foundation’s Head of Operations and Development at Zinave National Park, while patrolling the park at sunrise late in 2023. The rewilded animals in the park’s sanctuary, built park to protect them, had flourished and outgrown it.
- [In memory of Pamela Isdell](https://www.peaceparks.org/in-memory-of-pamela-isdell/) - It is with deep sadness that we mourn the passing of Pamela Isdell, who succumbed to cancer on Tuesday, 18 March. Pamela was passionate about nature and birds in particular. She and her husband Neville are well known for their philanthropic work supporting WWF, The Nature Conservancy, Birdlife and Peace Parks for many years. Pamela
- [Breaking rangeland barriers: The women herders and leaders who are inspiring a new generation in Zambia](https://www.peaceparks.org/breaking-rangeland-barriers-the-women-herders-and-leaders-who-are-inspiring-a-new-generation-in-zambia/) - In many communities in southern Africa, looking after the family’s prized cattle is the preserve of men. Thanks to opportunities offered by the Herding for Health programme more women are stepping into this traditionally male-dominated arena.
- [New horizons for the people of the land](https://www.peaceparks.org/new-horizons-for-the-people-of-the-land/) - Maputo National Park implements a remarkably successful community development programme in the Matutuíne district just south of the timeless city that is Maputo in Mozambique, southern Africa.
- [A Hidden Jewel in Mozambique: The story of Banhine National Park where wilderness breathes](https://www.peaceparks.org/a-hidden-jewel-in-mozambique-the-story-of-banhine-national-park-where-wilderness-breathes/) - Deep in the heart of Mozambique’s Gaza province lies Banhine National Park, a remote and untamed wilderness shaped by the rhythm of seasonal floods and shifting sands. This vast landscape, named after its inland delta, is a sanctuary where water, wildlife, and people are intricately connected. As the rains arrive, the park’s shimmering wetlands stretch
- [Tribute to Russell Smart](https://www.peaceparks.org/tribute-to-russell-smart/) - On 27 November 2024, Russell Smart, a dear colleague and friend of Peace Parks Foundation, succumbed to respiratory complications.
- [Nyika-Vwaza Agreement Shapes a Sustainable Conservation and Community Future](https://www.peaceparks.org/nyika-vwaza-agreement-shapes-a-sustainable-conservation-and-community-future/) - In a pivotal development for Malawi wildlife conservation, the country's Minister of Tourism, The Hon. Vera Kamtukule, and the Chief Executive Officer of Peace Parks Foundation, Mr. Werner Myburgh, today signed a ground-breaking 20-year co-management agreement to secure the long-term protection and sustainability of two vital ecological havens in Malawi: Nyika National Park and Vwaza
- [The story of a lion rescue in Zinave National Park](https://www.peaceparks.org/africas-silent-killer-thwarted/) - Rangers in Mozambique’s Zinave National Park were excited by signs of a new lion in the sanctuary. Their first sighting, however, of an extremely skinny young male, galvanised them into action. The lion had a cruel wire snare around his neck, that was cutting deep into his flesh. He was clearly in extreme pain and
- [Fisheries for the future](https://www.peaceparks.org/fisheries-for-the-future/) - Maputo National Park was proclaimed in 2021 after the merging of Maputo Special Reserve and Ponta do Ouro Partial Marine Reserve. One of Earth’s most biologically rich and endangered ecoregions, it is a jewel in the crown of Mozambique’s National Administration for Conservation Areas and Peace Parks Foundation who signed a 15-year agreement in 2018
- [Building resilience to climate change in Zambia ](https://www.peaceparks.org/building-resilience-to-climate-change-in-zambia/) - International Climate Initiative’s Growing Greener Project is working in Simalaha Community Conservancy to combat desertification and build resilience to climate change.
- [Whale season in Maputo National Park](https://www.peaceparks.org/14982-2/) - The humpback whale’s scientific name Megaptera novaeangliae, carries a sense of magic. The two words "Mega," meaning giant, and "Ptera," meaning wing in ancient Greek, perfectly describe these colossal, winged beings that soar through the deep blue. Imagine for a moment if novaeangliae translated to "new angel"—these gentle giants would become the ocean’s winged angels,
- [Peace Parks welcomes President Cyril Ramaphosa as Honorary Patron](https://www.peaceparks.org/14976-2/) - Peace Parks Foundation is deeply honoured to welcome the President of South Africa, His Excellency Cyril Ramaphosa, as an Honorary Patron . As Honorary Patron, President Ramaphosa will be joining the Heads of State of Angola, Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia, as well as His Majesty King Letsie III of the Kingdom of Lesotho and His
- [In Mozambique, partnerships make magical places](https://www.peaceparks.org/in-mozambique-partnerships-make-magical-places/) - The Government of Mozambique understands the value that its wild spaces hold. This government has placed a quarter of the entire country under formal protection, making it one of the most conservation-oriented nations in Africa. Peace Parks Foundation has been privileged to work in Mozambique for many years. Our partnership with the government has a
- [A vision come to pass](https://www.peaceparks.org/a-vision-come-to-pass/) - In the dark of the African night, with the sounds of the vibrant bush calling across the open savannah, two eyes reflect, white in the light of a baited camera trap. A large shaggy head looms into view as two more white shining eyes, appear glinting just behind. A pair of male lions are making their presence known in the remote wilderness of Mozambique’s Zinave National Park.
- [Progress Made In The Nyika TFCA](https://www.peaceparks.org/progress-made-in-the-nyika-tfca/) - In 2012 the World Bank announced that all conditions had been met for it to release a Global Environmental Facility Trust Fund Grant to the value of $4.82 million to develop the Nyika TFCA between Malawi and Zambia.
- [NEW LIFE FOR ELEPHANTS IN NYIKA NATIONAL PARK](https://www.peaceparks.org/new-life-for-elephants-in-nyika-national-park/) - Malawi’s Ministry of Natural Resources, Energy and Mining through the Department of National Parks and Wildlife, supported by South African-based NGO, Peace Parks Foundation, this month translocated 34 elephants from Liwonde National Park to the plateau of Nyika National Park.
- [Update: Translocated Nyika Elephants Settle In](https://www.peaceparks.org/update-translocated-nyika-elephants-settle-in/) - In August 2017, 34 elephants were translocated from Liwonde National Park to Nyika National Park, Malawi. The elephants are all healthy and settling in to their new habitat on the Nyika Plateau.
- [Mozambique proclaims Maputo National Park](https://www.peaceparks.org/mozambique-proclaims-maputo-national-park/) - On 7 December, Mozambique’s Council for Ministers issued a decree to formally merge the spectacular terrestrial and marine ecosystems of Maputo Special Reserve and Ponta do Ouro Partial Marine Reserve into one conservation area —the new Maputo National Park.
- [Prestigious award recognizes excellence in the management of Maputo National Park](https://www.peaceparks.org/prestigious-award-recognizes-excellence-in-the-management-of-maputo-national-park/) - The Park Warden of Mozambique’s Maputo National Park, Miguel Goncalves, has been announced as a recipient of the prestigious Tusk Award for Conservation in Africa.
- [The King of the Scavengers: Hyena Royalty Returns to Maputo National Park](https://www.peaceparks.org/the-king-of-the-scavengers-hyena-royalty-returns-to-maputo-national-park/) - Without impalas and hyenas, the lion cannot be the king of the jungle. African Proverb Apex predators have serious status; the lion lies in first place in the mighty hierarchy of Africa’s food chain – a fair call given their magnificence, and top-down significance. But no species exists in isolation; survival hinges on the interplay
- [Government of Mozambique and Peace Parks Celebrate Inauguration of Award-Winning Membene Lodge in Maputo National Park](https://www.peaceparks.org/government-of-mozambique-and-peace-parks-celebrate-inauguration-of-award-winning-membene-lodge-in-maputo-national-park/) - The Government of Mozambique and Peace Parks celebrates the official inauguration of Membene Lodge, Maputo National Park’s latest, award-winning, tourism asset.
- [Prosperity and peace meet in the Limpopo landscape](https://www.peaceparks.org/prosperity-and-peace-meet-in-the-limpopo-landscape/) - The three-year Livelihoods Improvement Programme, launched in 2023, enables communities within Limpopo National Park to use natural resources sustainably.
- [Herding for Health celebrates five years in Limpopo National Park ](https://www.peaceparks.org/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).
- [Herding for Health connects community farmers with markets](https://www.peaceparks.org/herding-for-health-connects-community-farmers-with-markets/) - Farmers participating in the Herding for Health programme in Massingir in the Gaza province bordering the Limpopo National Park in Mozambique, no longer lose cattle to predation. Cattle are heathier, fatter and now they are ready to go to market. Healthy cattle and vibrant soil Delcio Juliao, Implementation Manager of the Herding for Health
- [Innovative multi-party agreement on Tembe Elephant Park strengthens conservation efforts in a transboundary landscape in Africa](https://www.peaceparks.org/innovative-multi-party-agreement-on-tembe-elephant-park-strengthens-conservation-efforts-in-a-transboundary-landscape-in-africa/) - A Memorandum of Understanding was signed today by Tembe Traditional Authority in conjunction with the Tembe Community Trust, Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife and Peace Parks Foundation, laying the foundation for a long-term collaborative management agreement for Tembe Elephant Park in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
- [2023, the year in review, is all about partnerships](https://www.peaceparks.org/2023-the-year-in-review-is-all-about-partnerships/) - It is thanks to our partners that we are able to succeed in the transboundary landscape restoration work that is vital to all of our futures. Peace Parks Foundation undertakes the rehabilitation and preservation of natural ecosystems across 68 million hectares of land throughout southern Africa. In our 2023 Annual Review, we extend our thanks
- [In remembrance of Dr Frank Raimondo](https://www.peaceparks.org/in-remembrance-of-dr-frank-raimondo/) - Dr Raimondo passed away on 2 July after a short illness, surrounded by his family and loved ones. A stern supporter and friend of Peace Parks for over a quarter of a century, Dr Raimondo actively participated in shaping and steering the growth and development of the organisation. Renowned for his deep understanding of Africa’s
- [Peace Parks Foundation’s support to rangers, for people and nature](https://www.peaceparks.org/peace-parks-foundations-support-to-rangers-for-people-and-nature/) - Peace Parks Foundation thanks the rangers protecting communities and nature, using their skills to conserve biodiversity and build a peaceful relationship between humans and wildlife.
- [Remembering Arrie van Wyk: A true conservation pioneer](https://www.peaceparks.org/remembering-arrie-van-wyk-a-true-conservation-pioneer/) - On 23 July 2024, Arrie van Wyk sadly passed away from a heart attack. He was in the bush in the Mozambique component of the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Conservation Area. A vast transboundary landscape spanning 100,000 km2, incorporating five national parks and three countries. Arrie dedicated much of the last 23 years of his life
- [Kavango Zambezi and beyond: how you can help protect bird life in flight](https://www.peaceparks.org/route-to-safety-bird-migration-in-the-kavango-zambezi/) - 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
- [The Hunger Project: Feeding communities and championing gender equality in Zinave](https://www.peaceparks.org/the-hunger-project-feeding-communities-and-championing-gender-equality-in-zinave/) - In the area bordering Mozambique’s Zinave National Park, global non-profit The Hunger Project and Peace Parks Foundation are addressing community resilience and hunger, through a series of life-changing developments with a view on long-term impact. Hunger in Africa Having enough to eat is one of the fundamental basic human needs. In Africa, it is an
- [Peace Parks’ Partnership Pacts to Protect Biodiversity](https://www.peaceparks.org/peace-parks-partnership-pacts-to-protect-biodiversity/) - Historic. Ambitious. A win for the planet. Those were the words used in 2022 to describe the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, an ambitious pact signed by 198 countries to protect, restore and live in harmony with the natural world. It includes goals and targets from here to 2050 that aim to protect biodiversity, halt species extinction, and ensure that
- [Peace Parks joins the People’s Postcode Lottery family](https://www.peaceparks.org/peace-parks-joins-the-peoples-postcode-lottery-family/) - Peace Parks Foundation is deeply grateful to players of People’s Postcode Lottery for their ongoing support, enabling another step closer towards #NatureWithoutBorders. Players of People’s Postcode Lottery have raised an incredible GBP 1 million for Peace Parks Foundation which we can use to restore nature and build the resilience of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities.
- [Presidential Visit Marks Nationwide Significance of Thazima Water Scheme Project](https://www.peaceparks.org/presidential-visit-marks-significance-of-thazima-water-scheme/) - [Thazima, Rumphi District, 13 March]: In a significant gesture of commitment and support, His Excellency Dr. Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera, President of the Republic of Malawi, today visited the site of the Thazima Gravity-Fed Potable Water Supply Scheme. The President celebrated the progress made by the project that will be supplying water to 18,000 people this
- [Historic 20-year multi-party partnership agreement to restore and protect the Sioma Ngwezi landscape in Zambia](https://www.peaceparks.org/historic-partnership-to-protect-and-restore-zambias-sioma-ngwezi/) - Livingstone, 27/03/2024 - The Department of National Parks and Wildlife (DNPW) in collaboration with the Barotse Royal Establishment (BRE), Peace Parks Foundation and WWF Zambia, have entered into a unique agreement to co-manage the Sioma Ngwezi Management Complex for the next twenty years. The involvement of Indigenous Peoples in the management of ancestral territories reflects
- [Rhino poachers sentenced to lengthy imprisonment](https://www.peaceparks.org/rhino-poachers-sentenced-to-lengthy-imprisonment/) - Rapid response, well-coordinated efforts and irrefutable evidence provided by the Limpopo National Park anti-poaching unit, working in close collaboration with their counterparts across the border in Kruger National Park, led to the arrest and conviction of the two poachers in Mozambique.
- [Zinave security teams uncover illegal logging operation](https://www.peaceparks.org/security-operation-uncovers-large-illegal-logging-operation/) - In October 2019 a successful security operation led to the arrest of several suspects involved in a large illegal logging operation in Mozambique’s Coutada 4, a hunting concession that lies on the northern border of Zinave National Park.
- [Sensor Sensation: Colette Leads the Way for Women in Conservation Technology](https://www.peaceparks.org/colette-leads-the-way-for-women-in-conservation-technology/) - Colette Terblanche, is an anti-poaching powerhouse.
- [Peace Parks Mourns the Passing of Namibia’s President Hage Geingob ](https://www.peaceparks.org/peace-parks-mourns-the-passing-of-president-hage-geingob/) - It is with great sadness that we learned of the passing of Namibia’s President Hage Geingob, at the age of 82. In 2016, he accepted the invitation to become an Honorary Patron of Peace Parks. Throughout his time in this position, he offered his full support of transboundary conservation and the vital role it plays
- [The Wonders of Simalaha's Wetlands](https://www.peaceparks.org/the-wonders-of-simalahas-wetlands/) - Situated secretively within the expansive Kavango Zambezi (KAZA) Transfrontier Conservation Area, the Simalaha Community Conservancy is shaped, sustained and drained by a network of rivers flowing through the Kavango and Zambezi river basins. These waterways are the lifeblood of a complex wetland ecosystem, which holds both vital resources and crucial solutions. Simalaha was established in
- [A Year of Impactful Partnerships](https://www.peaceparks.org/a-year-of-impactful-partnerships/) - If there is one thing that Peace Parks Foundation understands, it is the value of partnerships. It is the ultimate key to conservation success. When working at the scale that we do, we cannot do it alone. We need to join hands with like-minded organisations, drawing on the strengths that each role player brings to
- [Unleashing the Wild: Colette's Ultra AFRICA Race](https://www.peaceparks.org/unleashing-the-wild-colettes-ultra-africa-race/) - ‘Running for your life’ has a different meaning for Colette Terblanche, Peace Parks’ Combatting Wildlife Crime Project Manager and freshly victorious Ultra AFRICA Race participant. She recently completed this immense 220 km feat through southern Mozambique, over five days, in intense heat on gritty, sandy trails. The entire experience was incredible. I always expected it to
- [Zimbabwe and Peace Parks Foundation Sign Historic 20-Year Agreement to Co-Manage the Iconic Greater Mana Pools Ecosystem](https://www.peaceparks.org/zimbabwe-peace-parks-20-year-co-management-pact-for-iconic-greater-mana-pools/) - The Government of Zimbabwe and Peace Parks Foundation signed a Co-Management Agreement for the Greater Mana Pools Ecosystem – home to World Heritage and Ramsar sites and a main draw of tourism income for the country. The long-term partnership agreement underscores a shared dedication to effective stewardship of this iconic landscape, grounded in a robust
- [Sky Count: Wildlife Numbers Shaping Conservation](https://www.peaceparks.org/aerial-census-brings-mozambiques-wildlife-into-view/) - In October 2023, an aerial census was conducted by the Maputo, Zinave, Banhine and Limpopo national parks to determine their wildlife populations, with support from Peace Parks Foundation and Mozambique’s National Administration for Conservation Areas (ANAC). Early estimates indicate a substantial growth in wildlife species across the participating parks, all attributed to successful conservation efforts.
- [Farmer Field Schools Grow Productive, Peaceful Livelihoods](https://www.peaceparks.org/farmer-field-schools-grow-productive-peaceful-livelihoods/) - The communities of the Maputo Environmental Protection Area in southern Mozambique are benefiting from a new focus on sustainable livelihoods and marine protection, thanks to the recently rolled-out Blue Action Fund Kuvikela programme. Here, Farmer Field Schools are on the rise, with small-scale farmers coming together to learn how to solve food production problems
- [Ranger Revolution: Specialised Training Takes on Wildlife Crime](https://www.peaceparks.org/ranger-revolution-specialised-training-takes-on-wildlife-crime/) - A revolution in ranger training is poised to take effect in southern Africa. It is aimed at closing the gap between transnational organised crime and rangers on the frontlines of conservation – on both sides of national borders. Driven by strong global demand, and high prices on the illegal market, poaching and trafficking of
- [Elevating Nyika: Flying High for Forests and Wildlife](https://www.peaceparks.org/elevating-nyika-flying-high-for-forests-and-wildlife/) - Nyika National Park tests helicopters for use in counter-poaching strategies, bringing the benefits of aerial surveillance to its conservation efforts.
- [Annual Review 2022](https://www.peaceparks.org/annual-review-2022/) - This year we celebrate a momentous 25 years of conservation at scale – a journey travelled to make healthy transboundary landscapes a vibrant reality across southern Africa. We are proud of the impact achieved, which bears testimony to the uniqueness of how we work and the many partnerships we’ve been so fortunate to have forged.
- [Herding For Health, Food For Life](https://www.peaceparks.org/herding-for-health-programme-fuels-food-for-life-across-africa/) - Zvi Tangawamira has her feet firmly on African soil, with her eyes set on the horizon. It’s an exciting time for Peace Parks’ recently appointed Senior Programme Manager for Herding For Health (H4H),an initiative set up in 2019 by founding partners Conservation International and Peace Parks Foundation. So far it's been an amazing experience working
- [Taking the LEAD to Save Lives](https://www.peaceparks.org/taking-the-lead-to-save-lives-protection-for-rangers-and-nature/) - Imagine a medical first responder course, specifically designed for senior game rangers operating at the frontlines of conservation and the combat against poaching. These men and women are guided through reality-based training, tailored to the situation on the ground. They emerge as certified coaches empowered to instruct taskforces in their own protected areas, with access
- [CI and Peace Parks Commit to Restoring 20 Million Hectares of Nature in Africa](https://www.peaceparks.org/conservation-international-and-peace-parks-foundation-partner-to-restore-african-rangelands/) - Landmark Investment Announced at Africa Climate Week to Drive Sustainable Grazing and Climate Resilience Across the Continent NAIROBI, Kenya (Sept. 5, 2023) – Conservational International (CI) and Peace Parks Foundation (Peace Parks), in collaboration with Indigenous pastoralists, Civil Society Organisations, and the private sector have announced an ambitious plan to restore 20 million hectares of
- [Transforming Wildlife Monitoring and Protection](https://www.peaceparks.org/earthranger-unleashes-the-power-of-conservation-tech-to-protect/) - Peace Parks Foundation and EarthRanger have formed an impactful partnership to revolutionise wildlife monitoring and protection. In Mozambique, three parks across the Great Limpopo transboundary landscape, as well as Maputo National Park in the Lubombo transboundary landscape, are integrating EarthRanger to help with real-time tracking of wildlife and resources and enhance the way conservationists respond
- [Werner Myburgh: 25 Years of Passion, Purpose and Conservation](https://www.peaceparks.org/werner-myburgh-25-years-of-passion-purpose-and-conservation/) - To wake up every day and to love what you do, whilst making a difference and having a positive impact on conservation in Africa, just about sums up the 25 years I have been with Peace Parks. What a privilege and an honour. Werner Myburgh, CEO of Peace Parks Foundation, this year celebrates a remarkable
- [INL Collaboration Unleashes the Power of Combating Wildlife Crime in southern Africa](https://www.peaceparks.org/collaboration-unleashes-the-power-of-combating-wildlife-crime/) - Collaboration Combats Wildlife Crime: US Department of State International Bureau of Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) visits South Africa’s Wildlife Zones Project and is recognised for their ongoing support and commitment to combating wildlife crime in southern Africa. Peace Parks Foundation’s Combatting Wildlife Crime Programme works tirelessly to combat transnational organised wildlife and forest
- [Mozambique Government, Peace Parks Foundation and Partners Secure Massive Success for Rhino Survival](https://www.peaceparks.org/mozambique-government-peace-parks-foundation-and-partners-secure-massive-success-for-rhino-survival/) - Third group of rhino from South Africa to Mozambique establishes viable population in Zinave National Park. [Zinave National Park, 10 September 2023]: In an extraordinary achievement for transboundary conservation and community livelihoods, an additional 10 rhinos have been successfully transported from South Africa to Zinave National Park, Mozambique. This marks a significant milestone in the
- [Fresh INSIGHT: Global Platform Relaunches to Boost Combating Wildlife Crime Efforts](https://www.peaceparks.org/fresh-insight-newly-relaunched-global-platform-for-combating-wildlife-crime/) - INSIGHT: Global Platform Relaunches to Boost Combating Wildlife Crime Efforts
- [Moving Giants, together: Sanctuary and Success for Zinave's Elephants](https://www.peaceparks.org/seeking-sanctuary-and-success-for-zinaves-elephants/) - Zinave National Park is a breathtaking 400 000 hectares of lush forest and grassland. One of Mozambique’s flagship protected areas, it paints a vivid picture of how life can make a comeback, given a chance. Efforts made by people, teams and partnerships, often across borders, are shifting the entire landscape into a new state of
- [Night-Vision Equipment for Kruger National Park Rangers](https://www.peaceparks.org/night-vision-equiptment-for-kruger-national-park-rangers/) - On 9 July 2015 the Kruger National Park’s ranger corps received a collection of top-of-the-range monocular night-vision equipment to the combined value of R3.4 million from Peace Parks Foundation, in order to assist them in their efforts to combat wildlife crime.
- [Learning To Identify Bird Species](https://www.peaceparks.org/learning-to-identify-bird-species/) - Joe Grosel, chairman of BirdlifeSA in Limpopo province, conducted a four-day specialist birding course with the tracker students currently based at Londolozi Game Reserve. For each group, Joe gets the students to correctly identify as many bird species as possible in a 24-hour period. The birding 24-hour day is conducted after an intensive few days
- [Richtersveld Transfrontier WILDRUN®](https://www.peaceparks.org/ritchersveld-transfrontier-wildrun/) - 45 intrepid trail runners braved 200 km of the arid Richtersveld over five days from 13-17 June 2016 during the Richtersveld Transfrontier Wildrun®, traversing this vast mountain desert wilderness area and crossing the Orange River to complete the first cross-border trail race between South Africa and Namibia
- [Action for Rhinos: Flying High with The Bateleurs](https://www.peaceparks.org/action-for-rhinos-flying-high-with-the-bateleurs/) - In a bid to conserve endangered wildlife and mitigate environmental crimes, The Bateleurs, a non-profit organisation has joined forces with Peace Parks Foundation. This partnership provides crucial aerial anti-poaching support to the Integrated Wildlife Zones Project (IWZP). The IWZP is an initiative led by South Africa’s Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment, gaining crucial
- [Enhancing Wildlife Protection: A Personal Triumph from Sandra's Journey in Namibia ](https://www.peaceparks.org/enhancing-wildlife-protection-a-personal-triumph-from-sandras-journey-in-namibia/) - Namibia, adorned with vast and awe-inspiring landscapes, plays a vital role in the Kwando Wildlife Dispersal Area (WDA) by protecting the diverse wildlife that roam across borders that serve as an essential corridor for natural migration. Unfortunately, poaching and illegal logging pose significant challenges to the conservation efforts in this area, combined with the difficulties
- [Peace Parks Foundation pays tribute to the late Senior Chief Inyambo Yeta of the Sisheke Chiefdom, Zambia](https://www.peaceparks.org/peace-parks-foundation-pays-tribute-to-the-late-senior-chief-inyambo-yeta-of-the-sisheke-chiefdom-zambia/) - Exemplary leader, visionary and ambassador for conservation.
- [Mozambique Hails Golden Jubilee Gems and Conservation Wins in Zinave and Banhine](https://www.peaceparks.org/mozambique-hails-golden-jubilee-gems-and-conservation-wins-in-zinave-and-banhine-national-parks/) - Along the Savé river, in the north-west of the Province of Inhambane, Zinave National Park makes the transition between the wet tropical lands and the dry lands of Mozambique; it represents an important crossing point for the nomadic animals migrating through the region. Giraffe, an icon of this park, lope through vegetation rich in acacias
- [<strong>Blue Action for Planet Ocean: Turning the Tide for Climate Change</strong>](https://www.peaceparks.org/blue-action-for-planet-ocean-turning-the-tide-for-climate-change/) - Maputo National Park's Blue Action Fund target area.
- [Guardians of Wild Africa: Celebrating Rangers, Raising a Challenge](https://www.peaceparks.org/the-guardians-of-wild-africa-need-you/) - World Environment Day is the perfect platform to celebrate the remarkable role of rangers and to raise a game-changing challenge.
- [Zimbabwe-Zambia Seal Landmark Conservation Pact](https://www.peaceparks.org/zimbabwe-zambia-seal-landmark-conservation-pact/) - A new transfrontier conservation area agreement has cemented the bond between nations, communities and wildlife across the Lower Zambezi and Mana Pools
- [Water brings life to Limpopo National Park and beyond ](https://www.peaceparks.org/water-brings-life-to-limpopo-national-park-and-beyond/) - A new water supply benefits livestock and livelihoods enabling a crucial move from the park to richer areas beyond.
- [Building back biodiversity, across borders](https://www.peaceparks.org/building-back-biodiversity-across-borders/) - Rewilding is key to building back global biodiversity and mitigating climate change. Peace Parks is helping solve these challenges at scale.
- [Life-changing water scheme uplifts Malawi's rural communities](https://www.peaceparks.org/life-changing-water-scheme-uplifts-malawis-rural-communities/) - Thazima Gravity-fed Potable Water Scheme launch marks the onset of great benefits for the communities living alongside Nyika National Park and Vwaza Marsh Wildlife Reserve
- [<strong>Earth Day 2023: How to invest in our Planet, Peace Parks style</strong>](https://www.peaceparks.org/earth-day-2023-how-to-invest-in-our-planet-peace-parks-style/) - Celebrate this Earth Day with a stunning view of Maputo National Park, where the land meets the ocean
- [Limpopo National Park communities feel a vital livelihood lift thanks to a €1.5m grant through the SADC Financing Facility](https://www.peaceparks.org/limpopo-national-park-communities-feel-a-vital-livelihood-lift-thanks-to-iucn-funds/) - Limpopo Livelihoods Improvement Project brings multiple life-changing benefits to local communities
- [Canine hero Sasa claims bold cross-border win against wildlife crime in Mozambique](https://www.peaceparks.org/canine-hero-sasa-claims-bold-cross-border-win-against-wildlife-crime-in-mozambique/) - Sasa and team with the goods seized during the spot bust at Maputo Airport, resulting in an arrest and prison sentence for the Vietnamese national.
- [A wild dog revival in Limpopo National Park](https://www.peaceparks.org/a-wild-dog-revival-in-limpopo-national-park/) - Wild dogs are naturally moving into Limpopo National Park, revealed by heat maps and increased sightings, signifying healthy ecosystems and reduced risks from human activity.
- [Blue Action Fund boost brings coastal hope to people and nature in Mozambique](https://www.peaceparks.org/blue-action-fund-boost-marine-protection-in-mozambique/) - Marine and coastal protection in Mozambique has been given a significant boost with a € 5.9m grant awarded to Peace Parks Foundation, welcoming great partnerships into this exciting programme.
- [Wondrous wetlands: why should we care?](https://www.peaceparks.org/wondrous-wetlands-why-should-we-care/) - Our world depends upon wetlands: these unique ecosystems hold both vital resources and crucial solutions for people everywhere. Vwaza Marsh Wildlife Reserve is a beautiful, vital example..
- [Leading the way with conservation at scale](https://www.peaceparks.org/leading-the-way-with-conservation-at-scale/) - With the invaluable support of donors, partners and staff, Peace Parks Foundation celebrates connectivity throughout our many shining highlights of 2022, and the certainty that we are following our unique and vital course: conservation at scale.
- [Booming wildlife populations a treat for visitors to Maputo National Park ](https://www.peaceparks.org/booming-wildlife-populations-a-treat-for-visitors-to-maputo-national-park/) - A second group of 26 eland has been successfully translocated to Maputo National Park as a follow-up operation to a similar translocation in 2019 that saw 20 eland reintroduced back into the park after the species had been absent for more than three decades.
- [400 animals added to Simalaha Community Conservancy's booming wildlife populations  ](https://www.peaceparks.org/400-animals-added-to-simalaha-community-conservancys-booming-wildlife-populations/) - Over the past three months, Peace Parks Foundation translocated 400 animals representing seven plains game species from a selection of reserves in Namibia to Simalaha Community Conservancy in Zambia.
- [Peace Parks Foundation bags another Kudu!](https://www.peaceparks.org/peace-parks-foundation-bags-another-kudu/) - We are immensely proud to be the 2022 recipient of a SANPark’s Kudu Award, in recognition of the strength and dedication of Peace Parks’ work in combating wildlife crime in Kruger National Park.
- [Unique new ranger training inspires formidable leadership in the field](https://www.peaceparks.org/unique-new-ranger-training-inspires-formidable-leadership-in-the-field/) - Seven star ranger leaders from protected areas across southern Africa have taken part in a ground-breaking Leadership and Resilience Training course - and it's been a ranger game-changer for them, their teams and their vital work.
- [Eland mega-herd translocated to Zinave National Park  ](https://www.peaceparks.org/eland-mega-herd-translocated-to-zinave-national-park/) - A seventy-five-strong herd of eland has been successfully translocated to Zinave National Park, Mozambique.
- [Tusk Conservation Awards 2022: Shortlist Announced!](https://www.peaceparks.org/tusk-conservation-awards-2020-shortlist-announced/) - Miguel Goncalves, Park Warden for Maputo National Park - that is co-managed by the National Administration for Conservation Areas and Peace Parks Foundation - has been nominated for the prestigious Tusk Conservation Awards 2022.
- [SHORT FILM: African rhinos return to Zinave National Park, Mozambique](https://www.peaceparks.org/video-african-rhinos-return-to-zinave-national-park-mozambique/) - New video release: Join us as we translocate white and black rhino from South Africa to Zinave National Park in Mozambique through two of the longest road-transfers of rhinos ever done.
- [Rhino return to Zinave National Park after 40 years](https://www.peaceparks.org/rhino-return-to-zinave-national-park-mozambique-after-40-years/) - 9 white rhinos have been successfully translocated from South Africa to Zinave National Park in Mozambique through the longest road-transfer of rhinos ever done
- [Black rhinos return to Zinave National Park in Mozambique](https://www.peaceparks.org/black-rhinos-return-to-zinave-national-park-in-mozambique/) - Seven critically endangered black rhino have been safely translocated from South Africa to Zinave National Park in Mozambique.
- [GONAREZHOU Conservation Trust: sharing responsibilities in conservation](https://www.peaceparks.org/gonarezhou-conservation-trust-sharing-respsibilities-in-conservation/) - Speaking at the launch of the Gonarezhou Conservation Trust, Minister Oppah Muchinguri said: "The trust will not only generate the much-needed revenue amid ever rising challenges that include poaching activities, but will also bring in sustainability and consistence in the general conservation of Zimbabwe’s wildlife.”
- [Shaping southern Africa’s greatest sanctuary for transfrontier vultures](https://www.peaceparks.org/shaping-southern-africas-greatest-sanctuary-for-transfrontier-vultures/) - Zinave has become a Vulture Safe Zone – the largest of its kind in southern Africa.
- [Photo story: The incredible journey of Zinave's white rhinos](https://www.peaceparks.org/photo-story-the-incredible-journey-of-zinaves-white-rhinos/) - Ever wondered what it takes to move 19 rhino across international borders on the longest road transfer of rhino ever undertaken? Join us on our journey in this photo story!
- [Annual Review 2021](https://www.peaceparks.org/annual-review-2021/) - The Peace Parks Foundation 2021 Annual Review is now available.
- [Equipping champions -  a custodianship approach to combat wildlife crime](https://www.peaceparks.org/equipping-champions-a-custodianship-approach-to-combat-wildlife-crime/) - In late 2019, the South African Government launched the GEF 6 Project that aims to strengthen institutions, information management and monitoring to reduce the rate of illegal wildlife trade in South Africa.
- [Celebrating the Kruger National Park Fence Environmental Monitors](https://www.peaceparks.org/celebrating-the-kruger-national-park-fence-environmental-monitors/) - The Fence Stewardship programme has increased the number of feet, hands and eyes along the fence line, working to protect wildlife, people and their property and improve the relationship between people and nature.
- [Green innovation takes the Gold](https://www.peaceparks.org/green-innovation-takes-the-gold/) - Simalaha’s Community Cookstove Programme has been awarded the Gold Standard for a certified Carbon Credit future.
- [Building Zinave’s future](https://www.peaceparks.org/building-zinaves-future/) - Peace Parks embarked on a massive $3.2 million infrastructure development project to improve the efficiency of park operations and conservation in Zinave National Park.
- [Online training supports conservation change-makers](https://www.peaceparks.org/online-training-supports-conservation-change-makers/) - Last year the COVID-19 pandemic had a devastating impact on the education sector. The College, with the rest of the world, was faced with finding solutions quickly in order to continue with their training initiatives. Whilst the SAWC believes in a first-hand applied approach to training, this did not stop them from quickly responding to this by developing the ability to deliver online training.
- [Swedish Postcode Foundation supports Peace Parks Foundation](https://www.peaceparks.org/swedish-postcode-foundation-supports-peace-parks-foundation/) - Peace Parks Foundation is the very grateful recipient of R5,5 million from the Swedish Postcode Foundation for 2010.
- [Southern African Ministers give impetus to TFCAs](https://www.peaceparks.org/southern-african-ministers-give-impetus-to-tfcas/) - As part of the preparations for the 2010 Soccer World Cup, the Southern African Ministers for the Environment and Tourism met today in Johannesburg for discussions about a sub-regional approach to unlock the tourism potential of Southern Africa's transfrontier parks. The Ministers attending were from Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Lesotho, Namibia, Mozambique and Botswana and senior officials from Angola.
- [Boost for tourism](https://www.peaceparks.org/boost-for-tourism/) - MORE local tourists can look forward to enjoying the pride of the Kalahari now that the Kgalagadi Transfrontier National Park is offering discounts on its tented parks in a bid to make it more accessible to average South Africans.
- [Innovative road-building method enhancing KZN wetland park's status as World Heritage Site](https://www.peaceparks.org/innovative-road-building-method-enhancing-kzn-wetland-parks-status-as-world-heritage-site/) - An environment-friendly road-building project in the iSimangaliso (formerly Greater St Lucia) wetland park is enhancing the area's status as a natural World Heritage Site. It is also providing jobs for the local community and cutting road maintenance costs. iSimangaliso Wetland Park Authority CEO Andrew Zaloumis said last week that concrete strips were being laid about
- [Two students on their way to Italy](https://www.peaceparks.org/two-students-on-their-way-to-italy-2/) - Ms Roselyn Kamumvuri from Zimbabwe (second best student) and Ms Kahimbi Kaingu from Zambia (best student) are on their way to Italy for three months. "Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but they don't quit." Quoting the famous American hotelier, Conrad Hilton, Ms Antonette Madi, a Namibian
- [Proclamation of Marine Protected Area in Africa’s first Marine TFCA](https://www.peaceparks.org/proclamation-of-marine-protected-area-in-africas-first-marine-tfca/) - On 14 July 2009 the government of Mozambique took a significant step in protecting its coastline when it declared a 678km² Marine Protected Area stretching from Ponta do Ouro in the south to the Maputo River Mouth in Maputo Bay in the north and including the Inhaca and Portuguese islands. The Marine Protected Area stretches
- [Financial Boost for LSDI](https://www.peaceparks.org/financial-boost-for-lsdi/) - THE LEBOMBO Spatial Development Initiative (LSDI) has received an added boost with the announcement that it will receive an US$80m budget.
- [Mozambique helped to conserve wild places, develop ecotourism](https://www.peaceparks.org/mozambique-helped-to-conserve-wild-places-develop-ecotourism/) - 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 government of Japan.
- [Kalahari dreaming](https://www.peaceparks.org/kalahari-dreaming/) - The Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, incorporating the Kalahari Gemsbok National Park, was officially opened in 2000 and is one of the most pristine conservation areas on earth.
- [Zimbabwe to relocate villagers for transfrontier park](https://www.peaceparks.org/zimbabwe-to-relocate-villagers-for-transfrontier-park/) - ZIMBABWEAN authorities will relocate 700 families from villages in the southern districts of Chiredzi to make way for a transfrontier game reserve, an official said yesterday
- [Families must go to expand game park](https://www.peaceparks.org/families-must-go-to-expand-game-park/) - Zimbabwe is to remove 700 families who settled illegally near Gonarezhou National Park, the country's second largest game reserve, to make way for a planned transfrontier regional park.
- [Road to boost park](https://www.peaceparks.org/road-to-boost-park/) - The first section of an access road to the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park in the Northern Cape was officially opened yesterday
- [Bergwatch: Its activities and accomplishments](https://www.peaceparks.org/bergwatch-its-activities-and-accomplishments/) - By 1991 it was evident that an organisation committed to mountain wilderness needed to be formed to provide a handbrake to the sometimes injudicious development of the Drakensberg foothills. A group of concerned individuals and organisations became motivated to create a watchdog NGO that was christened Bergwatch.
- [Maximising tourism benefits for the /Ai /Ais-Richtersveld Transfrontier Park area](https://www.peaceparks.org/maximising-tourism-benefits-for-the-ai-ais-richtersveld-transfrontier-park-area/) - Significant progress was made in the development of the /Ai /Ais-Richtersveld Transfrontier Park (ARTP) last week when local stakeholders in the tourism industry gave the nod to a tourism strategy being developed for the ARTP and surrounding areas.
- [Development of 1.8 billion Rand resort announced](https://www.peaceparks.org/development-of-1-8-billion-rand-resort-announced/) - The development is situated on an 11,000 hectare property granted on a 99 year lease by His Majesty, King Mswati III of Swaziland. It incorporates the Swaziland portion of the Jozini Dam and is bordered to the West by a railway line and to the East by the Lubombo Mountains.
- [Big skies and distant horizons lure travellers](https://www.peaceparks.org/big-skies-and-distant-horizons-lure-travellers/) - A major contributor to the semidesert`s growth as a tourist attraction are its nature reserves.
- [Transfrontier poverty relief project launched](https://www.peaceparks.org/transfrontier-poverty-relief-project-launched/) - THE FIRST phase of the Tshanini poverty relief project, which will see the Ndumo and Tembe parks linked to the Maputo Elephant Reserve in Mozambique, was launched recently.
- [Zimbabwe denies scuppering development of transfrontier park](https://www.peaceparks.org/zimbabwe-denies-scuppering-development-of-transfrontier-park/) - The Zimbabwe Tourism Authority (ZTA) this week dismissed concerns by South African and Mozambican tourism ministries that Zimbabwe was scuppering development on its side of the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park by failing to finance capital development projects on the Gonarezhou National Park.
- [Uniting against unsustainable fishing practices](https://www.peaceparks.org/uniting-against-unsustainable-fishing-practices/) - Peace Parks Foundation in partnership with the Simalaha Community Conservancy and the Namibia Nature Foundation established the Kavango Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area’s (KAZA TFCA) first community-managed transboundary fishery project. This initiative looks to establish fish reserves and protect critical fish breeding sites on the Namibian and Zambian sides of the Zambezi River.
- [Conservation training get major cash boost](https://www.peaceparks.org/conservatio-training-get-major-cash-boost/) - The annual African Wildlife Heritage Gala Dinner, now in its sixth year and aimed at supporting worthy conservation causes, recently raised a remarkable R1, 286-millon in one night. The event’s fundraising efforts over the past six years top R8-million, which underpins the Professional Hunters Association of South Africa (PHASA’s) commitment to conservation.
- [SA College for Tourism Tracker Academy successes](https://www.peaceparks.org/sa-college-for-tourism-tracker-academy-successes/) - Every year 90 young women and 16 young men – all unemployed and from impoverished rural backgrounds – are sponsored for a year-long training course at the SA College for Tourism in hospitality service skills and tracking skills respectively. Athenkosi Diba and Ernest Mnisi, both from poor rural areas, were given the opportunity to change their lives by being admitted to the tracker skills training course.
- [2012 Desert Knights Mountain Biking Tour](https://www.peaceparks.org/2012-desert-knights-mountain-biking-tour/) - The October full moon provided the perfect send-off for a group of intrepid mountain bikers on their journey of approximately 300 km through the stark, desolate areas of the /Ai/Ais-Richtersveld Transfrontier Park. The tour is not for the fainthearted, as it entails five days of gruelling cycling up and down canyons, along gravel roads, and, most punishing of all, the sand dunes which tested the cyclists' skills to the utmost.
- [Creating a Climate for Change](https://www.peaceparks.org/creating-a-climate-for-change/) - Peace Parks Foundation congratulates Jeff Barbee and his co-producer Mira Dutschke on winning the prestigious Jury Award at the Film Festival of Colorado for Best Environmental Film in June 2012.
- [Major donation to Peace Parks Foundation Sweden](https://www.peaceparks.org/major-donation-to-peace-parks-foundation-sweden/) - Peace Parks Foundation Sweden is now a permanent recipient of the Swedish Postcode Lottery. On 13 October 2010 Peace Parks Foundation Sweden became the very fortunate permanent recipient of the Swedish Postcode Lottery, which donated more than SEK 5 million for 2010 (approximately €538 000 or R5.1 million).
- [Support for SA College for Tourism](https://www.peaceparks.org/support-for-sa-college-for-tourism/) - The Swedish Postcode Foundation has donated more than R2 million to the SA College for Tourism.
- [Dutch Postcode Lottery donation](https://www.peaceparks.org/dutch-postcode-lottery-donation/) - Peace Parks Foundation has secured a €7 million donation from the Dutch Postcode Lottery over the next five years.
- [Mandela award site in World Heritage conservation row](https://www.peaceparks.org/mandela-award-site-in-world-heritage-conservation-row/) - A team of experts from UNESCO arrives at Mapungubwe this week to assess the impact that the Vele mine might have on the famous Mapungubwe World Heritage Site. The site is now the setting of a conflict that has launched an international environmental campaign against an Australia-based coal mining company. South Africa's former president and Nobel Peace Prizewinner, Nelson Mandela, was the first recipient of South Africa's highest honour, the Order of Mapungubwe, which is named after the treasured site.
- [Major Swedish event](https://www.peaceparks.org/major-swedish-event/) - Peace Parks Foundation was privileged to participate in a major event kindly hosted by the Swedish Postcode Foundation
- [Dutch Postcode Lottery's tremendous support - Another million Euros!](https://www.peaceparks.org/dutch-postcode-lotterys-tremendous-support-another-million-euros/) - On 5 February, Peace Parks Foundation was again the very fortunate recipient of another €1 million from the Dutch Postcode Lottery. The Lottery, which is the largest charity lottery in the Netherlands, contributes 50 percent of its annual profits to carefully selected aid organisations and charities concerned with bettering the lives of people and of nature.
- [Transfrontier venture gratifies ministers](https://www.peaceparks.org/transfrontier-venture-gratifies-ministers-2/) - KATIMA MULILO - The five SADC ministers with the portfolios of environment and tourism in Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe yesterday expressed satisfaction with the progress made on the proposed transfrontier tourism park.
- [Toyota Enviro Outreach: In conversation with Theresa Sowry](https://www.peaceparks.org/toyota-enviro-outreach-in-conversation-with-theresa-sowry/) - Litnet's Naomi Bruwer interviews Theresa Sowry, Executive Manager: Training of the Southern African Wildlife College, seen here at the 2008 graduation ceremony. What is the Southern African Wildlife College (SAWC)? What training do you provide and how many students are involved? The SAWC was established in 1997 by the World Wide Fund for Nature, South
- [Birth of Earth's greatest park](https://www.peaceparks.org/birth-of-earths-greatest-park/) - The Chobe and Zambezi are the arteries of a gigantic peace park in the making; one that is set to alleviate the overpopulation of elephants along these banks and transform tourism in southern Africa. The Transfrontier Conservation Area (TFCA) is known as KAZA (Kavango Zambezi) and incorporates vast tracts of land around these two river
- [Avis keeps Peace Parks Foundation on the move](https://www.peaceparks.org/avis-keeps-peace-parks-foundation-on-the-move/) - Avis has once again renewed its commitment to the Peace Parks Foundation by sponsoring the non-profit organisation (NGO) with the use of a Volkswagen Polo and a Toyota Fortuner. Avis chief executive, Wayne Duvenage says the sponsorship forms part of Avis corporate social responsibility (CSR) and sustainability programme - Avis Cares - which reinforces the
- [Region to stamp conservation efforts](https://www.peaceparks.org/region-to-stamp-conservation-efforts/) - NGOMA - The five participating countries in the Kavango Zambezi (KAZA) Transfrontier Conservation Area (TFCA) are expected to sign the multilateral treaty that will formally establish the KAZA TFCA in April next year, which is set as the deadline when the KAZA project should be in place. A memorandum of understanding to pave the way
- [NWR opens Ai-Ais hot springs spa](https://www.peaceparks.org/nwr-opens-ai-ais-hot-springs-spa-2/) - /Ai /Ais-Richtersveld - Namibia Wildlife Resorts (NWR) has re-opened its newly refurbished and former rest camp Ai-Ais Hot Spring Spa for business as it strategically positions its operations ahead of the 2010 international soccer showcase to be hosted by neighbouring South Africa.
- [Wild editor hosts transfrontier series](https://www.peaceparks.org/wild-editor-hosts-transfrontier-series/) - Cameron Ewart-Smith, editor of Wild magazine, the official publication of the Wild Card programme and its partner parks, will reveal transfrontier conservation areas or peace parks on SABC. The six-part TV series plans to bring plants, animals and people of the peace parks to life, as Ewart-Smith and crew begin with Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, after
- [Innovative road-building](https://www.peaceparks.org/innovative-road-building/) - Innovative road-building method enhancing KZN wetland park's status as World Heritage Site An environment-friendly road-building project in the iSimangaliso (formerly Greater St Lucia) wetland park is enhancing the area's status as a natural World Heritage Site.
- [Swedish Postcode Lottery more than doubles its support to Peace Parks Foundation](https://www.peaceparks.org/swedish-postcode-lottery-more-than-doubles-its-support-to-peace-parks-foundation/) - On 13 February 2012, Peace Parks Foundation Sweden was the very fortunate recipient of €1.13 million (SEK 10 million) from the Swedish Postcode Lottery. This is more than double the amount (approximately €538 000) received in October 2010 when Peace Parks Foundation Sweden became a permanent beneficiary of the Lottery.
- [Swedish Postcode Lottery funds Simalaha Community Conservancy programme](https://www.peaceparks.org/swedish-postcode-lottery-funds-simalaha-community-conservancy-programme/) - The Swedish Postcode Lottery today announced that Peace Parks Foundation Sweden is the very fortunate recipient of SEK10 million for a special programme to be implemented in the Simalaha Community Conservancy in Zambia. This follows on an application jointly submitted by Peace Parks Foundation Sweden and the Joaquim Chissano Foundation.
- [Major donations by Swedish National Postcode Lottery and Fondation Harafi](https://www.peaceparks.org/major-donations-by-swedish-national-postcode-lottery-and-fondation-harafi/) - The Swedish National Postcode Lottery has just donated US$1 million to fund Peace Parks Foundation projects in 2008. Furthermore, the Fondation Harafi has donated R800 000 over three years to support the Southern African Wildlife College and the TFCA Veterinary Programme. Peace Parks Foundation is a very grateful recipient of these enormous contributions to its
- [The Dutch Postcode Lottery continues to support transfrontier conservation](https://www.peaceparks.org/the-dutch-postcode-lottery-continues-to-support-transfrontier-conservation/) - The Dutch Postcode Lottery again supported Peace Parks Foundation with a generous donation of €1.35 million this year. The funding enables Peace Parks to continue working on the protection and sustainable development of transfrontier conservation areas in southern Africa.
- [Video Of Wild Rhino Competition Winners](https://www.peaceparks.org/video-of-wild-rhino-competition-winners/) - Inspired by their first true wilderness experience and face-to-face meeting with the iconic rhinoceros, the Vietnamese young people visiting South Africa have fervently committed themselves to rise up as ambassadors for the cause and to speak out against the use of rhino horn in their native country.
- [Dutch Postcode Lottery Extends Its Cooperation](https://www.peaceparks.org/dutch-postcode-lottery-extends-its-cooperation/) - Margriet Schreuders, Head of Charities, Dutch Postcode Lottery, said: "Peace Parks Foundation realises special cross-border nature reserves in southern Africa, thereby supporting economic development, biodiversity conservation and regional stability. The Dutch Postcode Lottery considers it important to continue to support this work, made possible thanks to the contribution of 2.7 million participants.”
- [Uniting with Africa’s rangers in the Wildlife Ranger Challenge](https://www.peaceparks.org/wrc2021/) - On 18 September 2021, hundreds of rangers - including eight teams of our own conservation guardians - will gear up to take part in the Wildlife Ranger Challenge.
- [In Order To Stop The Killing, We Have To Stop The Demand.](https://www.peaceparks.org/in-order-to-stop-the-killing-we-have-to-stop-the-demand/) - The demand for rhino horn in Asian countries remains one of the main driving forces behind the escalation in poaching of rhinos in Southern Africa, with more than 80% of illegally trafficked rhino horn passing through Vietnam either for local use or for export to other countries, such as China.
- [Welcome to Ponta Malongane – the whales’ stage](https://www.peaceparks.org/welcome-to-ponta-malongane-the-whales-stage/) - The idyllic waters along this stretch of Mozambique’s coastline are frequented by majestic whales during the months of July to December. Entrancing all who are lucky enough to glimpse them, with their songs and acrobatics, they migrate from polar to tropical waters in search of food and the best conditions for reproduction. This video of frolicking whales was taken off the coast of Ponta Malongane recently by Bruno Pedro.
- [7 000 000 Swedish krona to restore wild spaces in Africa](https://www.peaceparks.org/7-000-000-swedish-krona-to-restore-wild-spaces-in-africa/) - On 17 March 2022, the Swedish Postcode Lottery, during the online Annual Charity Event, showed its continued support to Africa's transfrontier conservation initiatives, with a contribution of SEK 7 000 000 to conservation not-for-profit Peace Parks Foundation.
- [Historic return of rhinos to Mozambique](https://www.peaceparks.org/historic-return-of-rhinos-to-mozambique/) - For more than 40 years, rhino have been absent from Zinave National Park. This year will see their historic return to the park, as a new founder population for rhino in the Mozambique.
- [New Equipment For Simalaha Community Conservancy](https://www.peaceparks.org/new-equiptment-for-simalaha-community-conservancy/) - Thanks to MAVA Fondation pour la Nature support, 10 February marked the arrival of a new tractor, a new trailer and a rotary mower, all of which will be used in the Simalaha Community Conservancy to manage roads, fire-breaks and for general management.
- [The missing link between climate change and biodiversity](https://www.peaceparks.org/the-missing-link-between-climate-change-and-biodiversity/) - Man-made methods for climate sequestration are often expensive, time-consuming, and sometimes even risky. Fortunately, there is an efficient and affordable alternative, a solution that naturally draws tons of carbon from the atmosphere: rewilding!
- [Message from our CEO: Restoring ecosystems in the new ‘normal’](https://www.peaceparks.org/restoring-ecosystems-in-the-new-normal/) - Peace Parks Foundation – with the continued support of the donor community and our partners – managed to celebrate some of our most significant milestones to date in 2021.
- [Securing the biodiversity of Africa’s warmest heart](https://www.peaceparks.org/securing-the-biodiversity-of-africas-warmest-heart/) - Malawi’s Nyika National Park is the country’s largest and oldest protected area. When travelling from the entrance gate at the foot of the plateau towards the highest point in the park, it is remarkable to witness how the landscape changes from deep green forests to rolling grasslands boasting magnificent antelope. Peace Parks Foundation has a long history with this landscape, dating back nearly two decades when, together with the governments of Malawi and Zambia, the Foundation started exploring the conservation benefits and commercial opportunities that a peace park could offer to this region.
- [Supercharging Ecosystem Carbon Sinks](https://www.peaceparks.org/supercharging-ecosystem-carbon-sinks/) - A high-level group of 60 scientists, economists, and civil society organisations have launched an initiative that, by 2023, will demonstrate the direct impact of nature solutions on solving the climate emergency.
- [Providing water - a life source for people, livestock and crops](https://www.peaceparks.org/providing-water-as-a-life-source-for-people-livestock-and-agriculture/) - As part of the MozBio Water and Agriculture Project, two of four multi-use water systems were this week handed over to the Gala and Guengu communities
- [Protecting The ‘Birthplace Of Rhino’](https://www.peaceparks.org/protecting-the-birthplace-of-rhino-2/) - The birthplace of rhino” – this is the name often given to Hluhluwe iMfolozi Park (HiP) in KwaZulu-Natal where the southern white rhino was saved from the brink of extinction half a century ago. Over the past few months, though, this sacred rhino protection area, managed by conservation agency Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife, has had a significant escalation in rhino poaching.
- [No More ‘Hiding In The Dark’ For Poachers Entering Kruger National Park](https://www.peaceparks.org/no-more-hiding-in-the-dark-for-poachers-entering-kruger-national-park/) - However, unbeknown to these wildlife criminals, the South African National Parks (SANParks) counter-poaching night-watch - sitting many kilometers away - has been closely watching them as they traverse the protected area. With the use of new wide area surveillance technology and specialised long range optics installed in the so-called Meerkat system, poachers no longer have the luxury of relying on invisibility as they illegally enter South Africa’s primary rhino stronghold.
- [RHINO ORPHANS GET A SECOND CHANCE AT A 'WILD' LIFE](https://www.peaceparks.org/rhino-orphans-get-a-second-chance-at-a-wild-life/) - Although the process of rhino orphan rehabilitation is lengthy and requires extensive resources, Ezemvelo’s veterinary services – supported by Peace Parks Foundation through the Rhino Protection Programme - remain dedicated to seeing these once traumatised animals rehabilitated and reinstated as wild rhino that breed naturally and add to a growing rhino population. This is entirely possible if the rehabilitation process is managed carefully.
- [The KAZA UNIVISA Is Back!](https://www.peaceparks.org/the-kaza-univisa-is-back/) - Travellers to the Kavango Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area ( KAZA TFCA) can now explore Zambia and Zimbabwe with much more ease with just one visa to travel between the two countries. It also covers people who want to enter Botswana through the Kazangula border for day trips. The KAZA univisa was first introduced as a
- [Loss Of Dr LUC HOFFMANN](https://www.peaceparks.org/loss-of-dr-luc-hoffmann/) - Peace Parks Foundation is deeply saddened by the loss of Dr Luc Hoffmann, who passed away on 21 July 2016. Dr Hoffmann was one of the foundation's first supporters, becoming a founding member of the Peace Parks Club in June 1997, and subsequently a Club 21 member. Dr Hoffmann was also a much-valued member of its board of directors.
- [Development Of Zinave Under Way](https://www.peaceparks.org/development-of-zivane-under-way/) - The development of Zinave National Park as an integral component of Great Limpopo Transfrontier Conservation Area (TFCA), the larger area surrounding the core transfrontier park, got under way in January 2016.
- [Vietnam, Be My Hero Campaign Launched](https://www.peaceparks.org/vietnam-be-my-hero-campaign-launched/) - A new rhino awareness campaign that launched this month in 11 international schools throughout Ho Chi Minh City, is calling on the young people of Vietnam to be superheroes and speak out against the use of rhino horn in their country.
- [Dutch Postcode Lottery supports Peace Parks Foundation](https://www.peaceparks.org/dutch-postcode-lottery-supports-peace-parks-foundation/) - On 4 February 2010, Peace Parks Foundation was the very fortunate recipient of €2.9 million from the Dutch Postcode Lottery
- [Safeguarding The Future Of GONAREZHOU National Park](https://www.peaceparks.org/safeguarding-the-future-of-gonarezhou-national-park/) - Gonarezhou National Park, situated in the south-eastern lowveld of Zimbabwe and covering an area in excess of 5 000 square kilometres, is a vital component of the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park. Gonarezhou, meaning 'Place of many Elephants' is an extraordinarily scenic park.
- [Kgalagadi Ninth In The Top 50 Best Safari Parks Of Africa](https://www.peaceparks.org/kgalagadi-ninth-in-the-top-50-best-safari-parks-of-africa/) - Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park has been ranked ninth in the Top 50 Best Safari Parks of Africa. Numerous parks that are part of southern Africa's transfrontier conservation areas are also in the Top 50. Kgalagadi is the only transfrontier park on the list.
- [FAB CHEF Competition At The SA College For Tourism](https://www.peaceparks.org/fab-chef-competition-at-the-sa-college-for-tourism/) - On Friday 22 May, the SA College for Tourism Class of 2015 participated in their own Master Chef-style cooking competition aptly named Fab Chef – the college is after all an all-women institution!
- [Building The Future Of Biodiversity Conservation In Mozambique](https://www.peaceparks.org/building-the-future-of-biodiversity-conservation-in-mozambique/) - 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.
- [Further Exquisite Coral Reefs Revealed](https://www.peaceparks.org/further-exquisite-coral-reefs-revealed/) - 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 biologists identified more than 60 species of reef fish.
- [World Bank Supports Mozambique’s Conservation And Biodiversity Effects To Reduce Poverty](https://www.peaceparks.org/worlds-banks-supports-mozambiques-conservation-and-biodiversity-effects-to-reduce-poverty/) - On 18 November 2014 the World Bank Group’s Board of Executive Directors approved a US$40 million International Development Association (IDA)* grant to support the implementation of the government of Mozambique’s Conservation Areas for Biodiversity and Development Project, known as Mozbio
- [Traffic And Alibaba Group Sign Mou To Jointly Reduce Illegal Wildlife Trade Online](https://www.peaceparks.org/traffic-and-alibaba-group-sign-mou-to-jointly-reduce-illegal-wildlife-trade-online/) - On 14 October wildlife trade monitoring network TRAFFIC and Alibaba Group announced the signing of a strategic memorandum of understanding (MoU) to join forces to address the illegal wildlife trade that is devastating threatened and endangered species of wild plants and animals worldwide.
- [Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park Launches Website](https://www.peaceparks.org/great-limpopo-transfrontier-park-launches-website/) - Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park has launched its own website and Facebook page.The new website will act as both the public face of the project as well as a portal to share and disseminate information between Great Limpopo's key stakeholders.
- [Rhino Protection Programme Agreements Strengthen Mozambique’s Efforts To Combat Wildlife Crime](https://www.peaceparks.org/rhino-protection-programme-agreements-strengthen-mozambiques-efforts-to-combat-wildlife-crime/) - A historic agreement between the government of Mozambique, Joaquim Chissano Foundation and Peace Parks Foundation will strengthen Mozambique’s efforts to combat wildlife crime by supporting the development of dedicated anti-poaching operations in and around Limpopo National Park, an integral component of the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park and Conservation Area.
- [Pioneering cross-border wilderness trails in Great Limpopo](https://www.peaceparks.org/pioneering-cross-border-wilderness-trails-in-the-great-limpopo-tran-park/) - Another successful cross-border wilderness trail, the Trans-Limpopo Walking Trail, was held in the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park from 5 - 8 September this year.
- [Moving Toward Accreditation Of The Lead Tracker Course](https://www.peaceparks.org/moving-toward-accreditation-of-the-lead-tracker-course/) - An initiative, started in 2013, to identify experienced trackers who have advanced their tracking skills to a level beyond the norm, was continued with success this year at the SA College for Tourism Tracker Academy. With the support of the Field Guides Association of Southern Africa, the Tracker Academy established a Lead Tracker training programme.
- [Transfrontier Park Management Committee](https://www.peaceparks.org/tranfrontier-park-management-committee/) - Maputo Special Reserve and Tembe Elephant Park now have a transfrontier park management committee to provide direction and guidance on the implementation of the two parks' joint operational strategy.
- [2014 Nedbank Tour De Tuli A Resounding Success](https://www.peaceparks.org/2014-nedbank-tour-de-tuli-a-resounding-success/) - August 2014 – The 2014 Nedbank Tour de Tuli has been lauded a resounding success, once again living up to its reputation as one of southern Africa’s premier mountain biking events. Organised by Children in the Wilderness (CITW), the 10th edition of the event saw 340 participants cycle across over 250 km of challenging and remote terrain in Botswana, Zimbabwe and South Africa in the Greater Mapungubwe TFCA, between 1 and 6 August.
- [Further Funding For The Malawi-Zambia TFCA](https://www.peaceparks.org/further-funding-for-the-malawi-zambia-tfca/) - The German Federal Ministry for Cooperation and Development (BMZ) has committed €18 million ($24.1m) to the Southern African Development Community (SADC) under its financial cooperation in order to develop the Malawi-Zambia TFCA. KfW, the German Development Bank, is mandated by BMZ to carry out German financial cooperation.
- [Nedbank Tour De Tuli 2014](https://www.peaceparks.org/nedbank-tour-de-tuli-2014/) - The Nedbank Tour de Tuli is a renowned, premier mountain bike tour through some of Africa’s most pristine wilderness areas in Botswana, Zimbabwe and South Africa. It will take place from 1 to 6 Aug 2014 for a maximum of 350 cyclists. This year will be the 10th annual fundraising cycling event.
- [South Africa And Vietnam Discuss Biodiversity Conservation](https://www.peaceparks.org/south-africa-and-vietnam-discuss-biodiversity-conservation/) - South Africa and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam concluded fruitful discussions in Pretoria on 28 March 2014 on issues related to biodiversity conservation and management.
- [Community Rangers Graduate](https://www.peaceparks.org/community-rangers-graduate/) - Thirty previously unemployed youth proudly bid farewell to the Southern African Wildlife College after completing a 12-month training for a National Certificate in Resource Guardianship. The training programme, which is aimed at helping safeguard Africa’s threatened species, is part of a youth development programme initiated by the College, funded by the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) Jobs Fund and supported by the Rand Merchant Bank Environment Fund, the Welverdiend Community and Kruger National Park.
- [South African Government Remains Committed To Efforts To Fight Rhino Poaching](https://www.peaceparks.org/south-african-government-remains-committed-to-efforts-to-fight-rhino-poaching/) - The South African government remains committed to intensifying interventions to fight against rhino poaching through the enhancement of international relations. It has drawn up and negotiated a number of Memoranda of Understanding (MOUs) with a number of countries and is in negotiations with critical range states, such as Mozambique.
- [Governor Inaugurates New Boundary Fence](https://www.peaceparks.org/governor-inaugurates-new-boundary-fence/) - On 28 June 2013 the Governor of Gaza Province, Raimundo Diomba, inaugurated the new south-easten boundary fence at a ceremony held at Massinguir Gate.
- [The Bookworm Kiddies Club](https://www.peaceparks.org/the-bookworm-kiddies-club/) - As a way of generating a love for reading from a young age, the Southern African Wildlife College Resource Centre started the Bookmobile Project in 2012. The main goal of the project is to make books available to children from the local community. These children do not have access to reading material, as there are no community libraries and most schools do not have a functional library.
- [10 years of continued support from Swedish Postcode Lottery](https://www.peaceparks.org/10-years-of-continued-support-from-swedish-postcode-lottery/) - On 19 March 2021, the Swedish Postcode Lottery, during the online Annual Charity Event, divided over one billion in Swedish Krona, SEK 1 040 423 000, between 58 non-profit organisations. Peace Parks was once again a recipient and was awarded a generous donation of SEK 7 000 000.
- [Another SEK10 Million From The Swedish Postcode Lottery!](https://www.peaceparks.org/another-sek10-million-from-the-swedish-postcode-lottery/) - Mr Richard Sjöberg, SPL TV host, and Ms Lena Malmberg, Peace Parks Foundation Sweden country representative
- [€15.4 Million To Combat Wildlife Crime](https://www.peaceparks.org/e15-4-million-to-combat-wildlife-crime/) - South Africa’s Minister of Water and Environmental Affairs, Minister Edna Molewa has lauded the R232.2 million grant made to the Peace Parks Foundation by the Dutch and Swedish Postcode Lotteries.
- [World Rhino Day: Lotteries Fund KZN Rhino Projects](https://www.peaceparks.org/world-rhino-day-lotteries-fund-kzn-rhino-projects/) - Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife (Ezemvelo) has started implementing a suite of projects to the value of R26.8 million (€1.89 million) as part of the Rhino Protection Programme, funded by the €15.4 million Dutch and Swedish postcode lotteries grant to Peace Parks Foundation.
- [Further Support From The Swedish Postcode Lottery!](https://www.peaceparks.org/further-support-from-the-swedish-postcode-lottery/) - At an awards ceremony hosted by the Swedish Postcode Lottery in Stockholm, on Thursday 21 February 2013, Peace Parks Foundation Sweden was the fortunate recipient of SEK 10 million. The Swedish Postcode Lottery was founded in 2005 and its vision is to contribute to a better world for people, animals and the environment.
- [Protecting nature – metre by metre](https://www.peaceparks.org/protecting-nature-metre-by-metre/) - Peace Parks Foundation is proud to announce a partnership with innovative, for-purpose venture EarthToday and the Union of Nature Foundation, joining a network of forward-thinking conservation NGOs that are collaborating to protect the planet’s precious natural assets.
- [Becoming a counter-poaching K9 handler](https://www.peaceparks.org/becoming-a-counter-poaching-k9-handler/) - The process of becoming a qualified canine (K9) handler requires constant, intensive training where technical aspects come second to the deeper experience of forming powerful bonds of mutual trust, understanding and respect between man and animal.
- [Reducing the impact of COVID around Mozambique’s national parks](https://www.peaceparks.org/reducing-the-impact-of-covid-around-mozambiques-national-parks/) - Rural communities living around national parks in Mozambique were protected from some of the devastating economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, through temporary employment for more than 700 community members.
- [Triumph for ecosystem restoration as lions settle in Zinave](https://www.peaceparks.org/triumph-for-ecosystem-restoration-as-lions-settle-in-zinave/) - A camera trap recently captured the first known image of a male lion in Mozambique’s Zinave National Park for several decades. The lion, which was drawn to the prey-rich habitat of the 18 600 ha sanctuary that has been established within the park, has since settled in the sanctuary, signifying how the remarkable restoration of this once-silent wilderness has led to the establishment of healthy ecosystems that are naturally attracting Africa’s top predator.
- [Rewilding Zinave – Return of the leopard](https://www.peaceparks.org/rewilding-zinave-return-of-the-leopard/) - Two leopards have been introduced into Mozambique’s Zinave National Park as the founder animals of what will hopefully become a significant leopard population for the region.
- [President of Zambia joins Peace Parks as Honorary Patron](https://www.peaceparks.org/president-of-zambia-joins-peace-parks-as-honorary-patron/) - Peace Parks Foundation is honoured to welcome the President of Zambia, His Excellency Hakainde Hichilema, as its newest Patron.
- [Minister welcomes a new age for conservation in Malawi](https://www.peaceparks.org/minister-welcomes-a-new-age-for-conservation-in-malawi/) - The development of two of Malawi’s ecologically-crucial wilderness areas, Nyika National Park and Vwaza Marsh Wildlife Reserve, is progressing in leaps and bounds. The country’s Minister for Tourism, Culture and Wildlife, Hon Dr. Michael Usi visited the parks recently to experience first-hand a range of crucial projects that are being implemented to address water security, housing, mitigation of human-wildlife conflict and environmental conservation.
- [Statement on the loss of a cheetah in Maputo Special Reserve](https://www.peaceparks.org/statement-on-the-loss-of-a-cheetah-in-maputo-special-reserve/) - Maputo Special Reserve, Mozambique, recently suffered the sad loss of one of the cheetahs reintroduced in October 2021, after the cheetah broke through the fence of the reserve and got caught in a snare some 4.3 km outside the boundary. Snares such as this one are common in areas where communities catch antelope to subsidise their protein requirements. The cheetah had been roaming the reserve widely as part of the normal ranging activities these big cats typically undertake when exploring a new area.
- [Successful cheetah translocation a victory for conservation](https://www.peaceparks.org/successful-cheetah-translocation-a-victory-for-conservation/) - The milestone reintroduction of four cheetahs into Maputo Special Reserve has reached a triumphant conclusion, as the majestic cats bounded their way into their 104 200 hectare new home on 22 October. This followed three weeks of acclimatising in bomas in the reserve. The cheetahs will now take their rightful place in the ecosystem, where they will play an important role in ensuring ecological equilibrium.
- [After 60 years, cheetahs return to Mozambique’s Maputo Special Reserve](https://www.peaceparks.org/after-60-years-cheetahs-return-to-mozambiques-maputo-special-reserve/) - Cheetahs will soon grace the wildlife-rich plains of Maputo Special Reserve in southern Mozambique for the first time since the 1960s.
- [Groundbreaking technology saves Kruger's rhinos](https://www.peaceparks.org/meerkat2021/) - For almost five years, Postcode Meerkat – the most advanced wide-area surveillance system ever developed for counter-poaching purposes on the African continent – has kept an eagle eye over vast sections of wilderness in South Africa’s 20 000 km2 Kruger National Park, becoming a key piece in a much larger puzzle that protects one of the last remaining strongholds of wild rhino in the world.
- [New boat supports enhanced marine protection](https://www.peaceparks.org/new-boat-supports-enhanced-marine-protection/) - The anti-poaching team in Ponta do Ouro Partial Marine Reserve (PPMR) recently launched a new twin-engined boat, provided by The World Bank funded MozBio programme, which will further enhance law enforcement activities in this resplendent and ecologically crucial marine protected area.
- [Paying tribute to a conservation giant](https://www.peaceparks.org/paying-tribute-to-a-conservation-giant/) - Peace Parks Foundation is mourning the passing of a true giant in southern African conservation and a deeply respected former colleague, Mr Sedia Modise, who was a pioneering figure in the formalisation of transfrontier conservation areas (TFCAs) across the region.
- [The unintended victims of a hidden killer](https://www.peaceparks.org/the-unintended-victims-of-a-hidden-killer/) - Snares and traps kill millions of animals across the world each year. Unfortunately, snares do not discriminate, catching anything that dare cross their path. A devastating find this week in Limpopo National Park, Mozambique, was once again evidence of this sad fact. Strategically concealed in a high density antelope movement area, a snare line had not only slain a Waterbuck, but also three endangered African Wild Dogs.
- [Chopping down illegal logging syndicates](https://www.peaceparks.org/chopping-down-illegal-logging-syndicates/) - The dedicated rangers in Zinave National Park,are successfully impeding the operations of sophisticated illegal logging syndicates intent on exploiting the natural resources of the Park for commercial gain.
- [Collaborative conservation continues between South Africa and Mozambique](https://www.peaceparks.org/collaborative-conservation-continues-between-south-africa-and-mozambique/) - In another victory for cross-border conservation, a series of successful wildlife translocations saw 27 Zebra and 62 blue wildebeest safely making the 1 250 km journey from Kruger National Park in South Africa to Zinave National Park in Mozambique.
- [Mozambique’s first in-country elephant translocation](https://www.peaceparks.org/mozambiques-first-in-country-elephant-translocation/) - Three elephant herds were successfully translocated from the Maputo River landscape just outside the boundary of Maputo Special Reserve to Zinave National Park in Mozambique. This was the first translocation between national parks in Mozambique, which is a result of the country’s dedication to conservation efforts.
- [From unemployed to successful seamstress](https://www.peaceparks.org/from-unemployed-to-successful-seamstress/) - In recognition of Women’s Day, Peace Parks Foundation celebrates the achievements of a young, talented seamstress in a community adjacent to the Ponta do Ouro Partial Marine Reserve in Mozambique, who has taken an inspiring journey towards reaching her dreams.
- [Rangers clear out 28 illegal charcoaling camps in Banhine](https://www.peaceparks.org/rangers-clear-out-28-illegal-charcoaling-camps-in-banhine/) - A joint operation by rangers from Banhine and Limpopo national parks in Mozambique has dealt a major blow to illegal charcoaling in Banhine, with the clearing of 28 charcoaling camps found by the counter-poaching unit in the 700 000 hectare conservation area.
- [New wheels invaluable for wildlife protection in Malawi](https://www.peaceparks.org/new-wheels-invaluable-for-wildlife-protection-in-malawi/) - The ongoing protection and development of Malawi’s Nyika National Park and Vwaza Marsh Wildlife Reserve has been greatly enhanced with the handover of six brand new 4x4 vehicles.
- [Protecting marine biodiversity and aquatic food resources](https://www.peaceparks.org/protecting-marine-biodiversity-and-aquatic-food-resources/) - Communities residing along Maputo Bay, in the Ponta do Ouro Partial Marine Reserve (PPMR) in Mozambique, have taken a decisive step towards protecting crucial marine life and aquatic food resources, with the recent demarcation of fishing areas and sanctuaries for marine species reproduction.
- [Reinventing the conservation narrative](https://www.peaceparks.org/reinventing-the-conservation-narrative/) - Peace Parks Foundation is introducing a fresh way to share conservation stories, and giving worldwide viewers the opportunity to immerse themselves in the heart of southern Africa’s wild spaces - through a brand new online video channel: Peace Parks TV.
- [Elephants find sanctuary in Zinave](https://www.peaceparks.org/elephants-find-sanctuary-in-zinave/) - Zinave National Park welcomed another 13 elephants thanks to the second in-country elephant translocation .
- [Tech giant rallies behind the children of Simalaha](https://www.peaceparks.org/tech-giant-rallies-behind-the-children-of-simalaha/) - Hitachi Vantara staff members donated more than € 2 300 out of their own pockets towards the development of vegetable gardens at 13 primary schools in Simalaha. This will not only assist in providing the children with a nutritious meal every day, but it is also anticipated to have a positive effect on the children’s health, attention spans, energy levels and ultimately their academic results.
- [Limpopo National Park - giving hope to a co-existence between people and wildlife](https://www.peaceparks.org/limpopo-national-park-giving-hope-to-a-co-existence-between-people-and-wildlife/) - To ensure the core wilderness zones of Limpopo National Park are fully protected, and to provide those living within the park access to much-needed livelihood opportunities, a voluntary resettlement programme led by the Mozambican government is underway.
- [Magic Grant supports women's empowerment initiative](https://www.peaceparks.org/sa-college-for-tourism-receives-magic-grant-to-continue-with-womens-empowerment-initiative/) - Our very own Mariette Ferreira, Executive Director of the SA College for Tourism (SACT), is a recipient of the Magic Grant awarded by the Helen Gurley Brown Foundation. The Foundation awards these grants to individuals who are dedicating their lives to transformative work through bold leadership and vision, especially in women’s empowerment.
- [Creating safe havens for pangolins](https://www.peaceparks.org/creating-safe-havens-for-pangolin/) - As we commemorate the 10th Annual World Pangolin Day on 20 February 2021, we are reminded of the plight of these uniquely beautiful scaly anteaters. As a result of being relentlessly poached for their scales, food, medicine, trophies or even as pets, pangolins are the most illegally trafficked wild animal on the planet and all eight species are categorised under the International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) Red List, as either critically endangered, endangered or vulnerable.
- [Saying goodbye to a remarkable man](https://www.peaceparks.org/saying-goodbye-to-a-remarkable-man/) - We are profoundly saddened by the loss of Chrispin Muchindu, a friend and colleague who, for the past eight years, was an intricate part of the Peace Parks team.
- [Farewell to a great friend and mentor](https://www.peaceparks.org/farewell-to-a-great-friend-and-mentor/) - It is with great sadness that we bid farewell to a stalwart of Peace Parks Foundation this week. Surrounded by his family, Johannes Jacobus Marthinus van Zyl, best known as Boetie, passed away quietly on Saturday morning, 19 December, after a long and hard battle against cancer.
- [Hope for the world’s most persecuted large cat](https://www.peaceparks.org/hope-for-the-worlds-most-persecuted-large-cat/) - Saving Spots, a leopard protection project that has been running in the Kavango Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area since 2018, has had significant successes in working with local communities to save the species from extinction.
- [Ministry against wildlife crime](https://www.peaceparks.org/ministry-against-wildlife-crime/) - The Minister officially closed the six weeks training of 12 Intelligence and Investigation Officers, from the Department of National Parks and Wildlife, that work in and around Nyika National Park and Vwaza Marsh Wildlife Reserve, within the Malawi Zambia Transfrontier Conservation Areas.
- [A horseback adventure in Zambia](https://www.peaceparks.org/a-horseback-adventure-in-zambia/) - Simalaha Horse Safaris provides an intimate experience of the vast open plains, as well as mopane and acacia woodlands, of the Simalaha Community Conservancy in Zambia.
- [Resetting for 2021 and beyond](https://www.peaceparks.org/resetting-for-2021-and-beyond/) - Two things became crystal clear in 2020: the work we do in restoring a healthy balance between humans and nature has never been more important, and secondly, we need to rethink the norm.
- [Update! The Zinave hyena clan settles in](https://www.peaceparks.org/as-the-clan-settles/) - Four spotted hyena were translocated by Peace Parks Foundation to Zinave National Park, Mozambique where they now play their part in restoring ecological balance to this landscape.
- [Yielding success with conservation agriculture](https://www.peaceparks.org/yielding-success-with-conservation-agriculture/) - Onion farmers from the Tchia community adjacent to Maputo Special Reserve (MSR) in Mozambique, harvested 7 000kg of produce using conservation agriculture techniques.
- [Protecting Lions in wild places](https://www.peaceparks.org/protecting-lions-in-wild-places/) - The Endangered Wildlife Trust, SANParks, ANAC and Peace Parks Foundation have embarked on an ambitious partnership to understand and protect Africa's most iconic species, the African Lion, within the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Conservation Area.
- [Wildlife rangers are running for their future](https://www.peaceparks.org/wildlife-rangers-are-running-for-their-future/) - On 3 October 2020 over 70 ranger teams across the African continent will run for their future in a half marathon, carrying their typical 25kg backpack and equipment - building comradery and raising awareness of the hardship currently faced by those in their profession. Team Sioma and Team Nyika have been training hard for this challenge and have stepped up as the faces and voices of their parks!
- [EUR 4 million COVID-19 relief efforts in KAZA](https://www.peaceparks.org/eur-4-million-covid-19-relief-efforts-in-kaza/) - The German government is providing EUR 4 million to the world’s largest transfrontier conservation area (TFCA), the Kavango Zambezi (KAZA) TFCA, to mitigate the devasting repercussions of COVID-19 in four of the partner states - Angola, Botswana, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
- [Victory for counter-trafficking K9 unit](https://www.peaceparks.org/victory-for-counter-trafficking-k9-unit/) - On 10 November 2020, Mozambique Police, with the support of the National Administration for Conservation Areas (ANAC) Canine Unit, apprehended a Vietnamese citizen who was attempting to smuggle wildlife products to southeast Asia.
- [Protecting livelihoods in Malawi amidst the COVID-19 pandemic](https://www.peaceparks.org/protecting-livelihoods-in-malawi-amidst-the-covid-19-pandemic/) - Vulnerable communities severely affected by the socio-economic shocks of the COVID-19 pandemic have been offered a lifeline in the form of a EUR 1 million COVID-19 relief initiative to be rolled out in Malawi. These activities aim to provide short-term relief and meet the most urgent needs of families who are suffering a loss of income in the wake of the global paralysis experienced in the hospitality and tourism sectors.
- [EUR 1 million for cash-for-work interventions in Mozambique](https://www.peaceparks.org/eur-1-million-from-german-government-for-cash-for-work-interventions-in-mozambique/) - The German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) makes available EUR 1 million through KfW Development Bank for a COVID-19 relief initiative in the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Conservation Area. The initiative is implemented by Peace Parks Foundation in partnership with the Mozambican Government’s National Administration of Conservation Areas (ANAC). The activities to be funded include cash-for-work employment programmes that will provide temporary income for approximately 400 community members financially deprived as a result of the pandemic which has resulted in a collapse of tourism and other sectors which usually support these communities.
- [Additional SEK 700 000 funding from Swedish Postcode Lottery](https://www.peaceparks.org/additional-sek-700-000-funding-from-swedish-postcode-lottery/) - The Swedish Postcode Lottery continues to demonstrate its unwavering commitment to southern Africa’s people and the region’s conservation efforts - having staunchly supported the work of Peace Parks Foundation for a decade.
- [Fellowship of the clan](https://www.peaceparks.org/fellowship-of-the-clan/) - Four young spotted hyenas have begun their journey to Zinave National Park, where Peace Parks Foundation will introduce them as the founder population of the first resident large carnivores in decades. The spotted scavengers were captured in Sabie Game Park and moved to a temporary boma in Karingani, where they now await air transport to Zinave. This remarkable journey is the result of a partnership centered around dedicated conservation efforts in Mozambique.
- [Peace Parks welcomes President Lazarus Chakwera as Honorary Patron](https://www.peaceparks.org/peace-parks-welcomes-president-lazarus-chakwera-as-honorary-patron/) - Peace Parks Foundation is pleased to announce that His Excellency President Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera of Malawi has accepted the Foundation’s invitation to become an honorary patron.
- [Keep our beaches clean!](https://www.peaceparks.org/keep-our-beaches-clean/) - In celebration of International Coastal Clean-up Day, 1 and a half tons of garbage was removed from the beaches along the coastline that stretches a distance of over 37 km from Ponta do Ouro to Ponta Dobela in Mozambique.
- [Wildlife Zones to protect all of South Africa’s rhino](https://www.peaceparks.org/wildlife_zones/) - South Africa’s multitude of public and private rhino custodians are coming together like never before in an initiative that will see all South African rhino being protected as a single national herd.
- [The art of farming mussels](https://www.peaceparks.org/art-of-mussel-farming/) - Fishermen and women in Mozambique are being equipped and trained in the art of farming mussels on longlines, as a means to create a stable income for the communities .
- [André Kilian - always in our hearts](https://www.peaceparks.org/andrekilian/) - Andre leaves behind a lasting legacy having profoundly changed the lives of so many young women and men.
- [Community-led ecotourism enterprise feeds hungry families](https://www.peaceparks.org/community-led-ecotourism-enterprise-feeds-hungry-families/) - The Community Association for the Sustainable Management of Natural Resources, Ahi Zamene Chemucane (AZC), through its own funds, distributed 8 tons of food to support 144 families in the communities of Tsolombane, Muvukuza and Mabuluku in the Matutuíne District, Maputo Province.
- [Protective measures against COVID-19 in Kasungu Lukusuzi](https://www.peaceparks.org/protective-measures-against-covid-19-in-kasungu-lukusuzi/) - Peace Parks Foundation continues in its efforts to curb the spread of COVID-19 in vulnerable communities throughout southern Africa. In support of those living in and around the Kasungu and Lukusuzi National Parks in the Malawi-Zambia Transfrontier Conservation Area, a consignment of personal protective materials was distributed in the two Chiefdoms of Mwasemphangwe and Chikomeni, by the District Commissioner in Lukusuzi, Zambia.
- [Conservation Agriculture Sweeps Across Zambia](https://www.peaceparks.org/conservation-agriculture-sweeps-across-zambia/) - Farmers inside the Simalaha Community Conservancy in KAZA TFCA have more than enough fresh vegetables to feed their families, and surplus produce is sold. This because conservation agriculture is being practised here, and it’s changing people’s lives dramatically.
- [One of Africa’s top ten rangers: Natercio Ngovene](https://www.peaceparks.org/one-of-africas-top-ten-rangers-natercio-ngovene/) - Natercio Ngovene, Head of Anti-poaching in Mozambique’s Maputo Special Reserve, has just been announced as a recipient of the 2020 African Ranger Award – a prestigious accolade presented by Paradise Foundation International and Alibaba Foundation.
- [Five countries unite against wildlife crime](https://www.peaceparks.org/five-countries-unite-against-wildlife-crime/) - The five Partner States of the Kavango Zambezi (KAZA) Transfrontier Conservation Area (TFCA) - Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe – have joined forces to defend their borders against those who seek to deprive the region of its natural beauty and resources.
- [Conservation guardians](https://www.peaceparks.org/conservation-guardians/) - This World Ranger Day, we take a moment to recognise the work being done by rangers across southern Africa to protect our conservation areas.
- [Celebrating 60 years of conservation](https://www.peaceparks.org/celebrating-60-years-of-conservation/) - Mozambique had much to celebrate last week as Maputo Special Reserve commemorated 60 years of existence. The milestone was marked on 23 July with a ceremony led by His Excellency, President Filipe Jacinto Nyusi. This event also recognised six decades of conservation for the country's Marromeu National Reserve and Gorongosa National Park.
- [One NGO, taking a stand against COVID-19 in southern Africa](https://www.peaceparks.org/one-ngo-taking-a-stand-against-covid-19-in-southern-africa/) - Peace Parks Foundation is leading a support initiative that aims to curb the spread of the COVID19 pandemic, and alleviate the impact of the pandemic on the poorest and most vulnerable communities.
- [A 'fishy' new World Record](https://www.peaceparks.org/theres-something-fishy-about-this-new-world-record/) - A Tiger Shark called Sereia has been recorded as undertaking the longest confirmed migration for the species on record. Sereia swam 6 500 km from Ponta do Ouro Partial Marine Reserve (PPMR), in Mozambique, to an area offshore of the coast of Indonesia
- [Wider protection for critically endangered turtles](https://www.peaceparks.org/wider-protection-for-critically-endangered-turtles/) - The ocean is the largest ecosystem on Earth. It generates half of the oxygen we breathe, provides at least a sixth of the protein we eat and absorbs carbon dioxide from the atmosphere which reduces the impacts of climate change. Peace Parks supports the protection of marine life which is critical in keeping the biodiversity of this massive life support system healthy and balanced.
- [Maputo Special Reserve donates medical equipment to Health Services](https://www.peaceparks.org/maputo-special-reserve-donates-medical-equipment-to-health-services/) - Four digital thermometers and 2 000 surgical masks were handed over to the Health Services of Matutuíne District, in Maputo Province, to protect health officials and improve the screening process of people infected with COVID-19 at district level.
- [SMART Partnership announces release of SMART Mobile](https://www.peaceparks.org/smart-partnership-announces-release-of-smart-mobile/) - The best solution for capturing conservation data
- [Fighting the pandemic in Limpopo National Park](https://www.peaceparks.org/fighting-the-pandemic-in-limpopo-national-park/) - Almost 5 000 units of 1kg carbolic soap bars have been delivered to the Massingir district health services and vulnerable communities in Limpopo National Park.
- [2019 - a year of impactful, dynamic conservation.](https://www.peaceparks.org/2019-a-year-of-impactful-dynamic-conservation/) - Looking back on 2019, we cannot but feel extremely proud of what has been achieved. We have rebuilt, rewilded, forged partnerships and came one step closer to restoring tomorrow.
- [One dog looking out for another](https://www.peaceparks.org/one-dog-looking-out-for-another/) - Duke Gin, a family-owned distillery is giving a percentage of the profit made on each bottle of Duke Gin sold to the Limpopo National Park dog unit in aid of lead dog Fury and his team mates.
- [Limpopo National Park welcomes new canine unit](https://www.peaceparks.org/limpopo-national-park-welcomes-new-canine-unit/) - The arrival of a canine unit in Mozambique’s Limpopo National Park was welcomed by the anti-poaching forces in June 2019. The team, consisting of a well-trained canine handler and tracking dog will be deployed with patrol units to find potential threats along active poacher routes or participate in tracking operations during a pursuit.
- [Teamwork saves baby ellie](https://www.peaceparks.org/teamwork-saves-baby-ellie/) - This week, a three-month-old elephant was saved thanks to the actions of the Muvucuza Community in Maputo Special Reserve, who alerted rangers to the youngster wondering around alone.
- [Community saves giant snake](https://www.peaceparks.org/community-saves-giant-snake/) - A Mozambican family living in the Massuane, a community in the buffer zone of Maputo Special Reserve, recently had the fright of their lives when they came across an enormous 3.5 meters long python inside their property. Despite the fact that the snake had consumed one of their kid goats, the family – who rely on livestock farming for their livelihood – decided to not kill the snake. Instead they requested assistance from the Maputo Special Reserve rangers who arrived at the scene to catch the snake.
- [Welcoming new rangers to the Maputo Special Reserve team](https://www.peaceparks.org/new-rangers-for-msr/) - On Thursday 13 December, 25 new Maputo Special Reserve rangers successfully completed a six-week training programme undertaken by the Southern African Wildlife College.
- [Borders are barriers no more](https://www.peaceparks.org/borders-are-barriers-no-more/) - Across the borders of the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Conservation Area, ranger forces from South African National Parks and Mozambique’s National Administration for Conservation Areas, are leading the way in the successful execution of joint transboundary anti-poaching operations as part of Operation Capricorn - the name used to refer to official cross border/along border cooperation between KNP and LNP.
- [Rangers are taking back their park](https://www.peaceparks.org/rangers-are-taking-back-their-park/) - Poaching is being severely disrupted by the passion and perseverance of rangers in Limpopo National Park. Last week it led to the successful apprehension and arrest of two suspected rhino poachers in the north of the Park’s Intensive Protection Zone.
- [Green inside and out](https://www.peaceparks.org/green-inside-and-out/) - Peace Parks Foundation takes the necessary steps to ensure we remain ‘green’ - not just in the conservation areas where we are operational, but also at the various offices we work from.
- [Carbon credits for clean cooking](https://www.peaceparks.org/cook-stoves-for-carbon-credits/) - Peace Parks Foundation collaborated with Commonland, to investigate the use of fuel-efficient cookstoves for communities within the Kavango Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area. These stoves reduce the consumption of wood and charcoal by approximately 30% and the greenhouse gas emittance by 80%, when compared to cooking on traditional open fires, offering benefits to both users and the environment.
- [Enhancing Visitors' Experience Of Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park](https://www.peaceparks.org/enhancing-visitors-experience-of-kgalagadi-transfrontier-park/) - In an endeavour to make visitors’ stay more enjoyable, the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park management decided to conduct induction sessions for their staff, particularly their frontline staff who deal with visitors. Two induction sessions were completed at South Africa's Twee Rivieren and Botswana's Two Rivers, and two sessions on the Botswana side at Mabuasehube and KAA
- [Community fish farms provide food and income](https://www.peaceparks.org/community-fish-farm-provides-food-and-income/) - Tilapia farmers from the villages of Ngomene, Mhala and Nhonguane in the buffer zone of the Maputo Special Reserve (MSR) and the Ponta do Ouro Partial Marine Reserve (PPMR), have started selling tilapia produced in Buthi Lagoon, Machangulo.
- [Protecting against the pandemic in Simalaha](https://www.peaceparks.org/protecting-against-the-pandemic-in-simalaha/) - In the Zambia, Peace Parks has been working around the clock to assist the Ministry of Health to procure and distribute protective gear, carbolic soap, water dispensers, dispensing stands and water buckets to the people of the Simalaha Community Conservancy.
- [A grand migration in the sky](https://www.peaceparks.org/a-grand-migration-in-the-sky/) - This World Migratory Bird Day we share with you the beauty of Banhine National Park - an important resting place for southern Africa’s migratory bird species. During the rainy seasons, the park becomes a myriad of crystal clear lagoons that attract large flocks of birds, such as pelicans.
- [Maputo Special Reserve launches community health campaign to combat covid-19](https://www.peaceparks.org/maputo-special-reserve-launches-community-health-campaign-to-combat-covid-19/) - 15 000 1kg bars of soap and Covid-19 awareness posters have been delivered to Maputo and are in the process being distributed to more communities around living in and around Maputo Special Reserve and Ponta do Ouro Partial Marine Reserve as well as the other protective areas - Limpopo, Zinave, and Banhine national parks - where we are actively involved.
- [Discovering Banhine National Park](https://www.peaceparks.org/discovering-banhine-national-park/) - Banhine National Park forms the central core of an ancient wildlife corridor that stretches from Kruger National Park in South Africa, across the Mozambique border, through Limpopo National Park and all the way up to Zinave National Park. For centuries, herds of migratory animals have been using this route in their search for water, food and safe breeding grounds. Peace Parks Foundation, in partnership with the Mozambique Government is working to secure the park's future.
- [Recordopbrengst Postcode Loterij: ruim 376 miljoen euro voor een betere wereld](https://www.peaceparks.org/recordopbrengst-postcode-loterij-ruim-376-miljoen-euro-voor-een-betere-wereld/) - Miljoenensteun voor maatschappelijk ondernemerschap, herstel van Nederlandse biodiversiteit en ‘s werelds grootste natuurgebied. De Postcode Loterij schenkt een recordbedrag van ruim 376 miljoen euro aan goede doelen op het gebied van mens en natuur.
- [Continued support from the Swedish Postcode Lottery of SEK 7 Million!](https://www.peaceparks.org/continued-support-from-the-swedish-postcode-lottery-of-sek-7-million/) - The Swedish Postcode Lottery showed their continued support of transfrontier conservation in southern Africa at the lottery’s annual charity gala on 18 February 2020. Peace Parks Foundation has been awarded SEK 7 million for basic annual support through a contribution made by the Swedish Postcode Lottery to Peace Parks Foundation Sweden. With the organisation’s generous grant, Peace Parks can continue its vital work to re-establish, renew and conserve large ecosystems in Africa.
- [A continued commitment to protect the rights of people and nature](https://www.peaceparks.org/swedish-postcode-lottery-commits-to-protecting-the-rights-of-people-and-nature/) - The Swedish Postcode Lottery has continued its support to the work of Peace Parks Foundation with a contribution of SEK 15,630,000 announced at their annual gala event held on 13 March 2019.
- [Dutch Postcode Lottery donates more than € 376 million for a better world](https://www.peaceparks.org/dutch-postcode-lottery-donates-more-than-e-376-million-for-a-better-world/) - The National Postcode Lottery donated a record amount of more than 376 million euro to charities benefitting both people and nature. This year's revenue from the Lottery supported a large variety of international charities working towards creating a better world. These organisations focus on, for example restoring biodiversity, combating corruption and inequality in African countries, as well as helping victims of sexual violence worldwide.
- [Securing a harmonious future in Africa's largest peace park](https://www.peaceparks.org/securing-a-harmonious-future-in-africas-largest-peace-park/) - The world’s largest terrestrial transfrontier conservation area (TFCA), the Kavango Zambezi (KAZA), has received a major boost to its ecological and socio-economic development, in the shape of a 16.9 million Euro contribution from the Dutch Postcode Lottery.
- [Eni, Peace Parks and BCP partner to sustainably protect Zambia's woodlands](https://www.peaceparks.org/eni-peace-parks-and-bcp-partner-to-sustainably-protect-zambias-woodlands/) - A partnership between BCP, Eni and Peace Parks Foundation that will greatly contribute to the long-term sustainability of the Luangwa Community Forests Project that promotes forest protection and community development through sales of carbon offsets
- [Four-legged defence against the illegal wildlife trade](https://www.peaceparks.org/four-legged-defence-against-the-illegal-wildlife-trade/) - Counter-trafficking initiatives such as the Mozambique Canine Unit that operates in and from Maputo International Airport, are crucial to the fight against wildlife crime. The specialised team of detection dogs and their handlers, better known as the National Administration of Conservation Areas (ANAC) K9 Unit, provide critical support to law enforcement activities, sniffing out contraband leading to the arrest of traffickers and the disruption of smuggling routes.
- [Protecting the Pangolin](https://www.peaceparks.org/protecting-the-pangolin/) - This pangolin received a second chance at living wild and free when Mozambique law-enforcement rescued it from wildlife traffickers in Maputo a couple of weeks ago.
- [100,000 children in unique project to fight wildlife crime and stand up for girls’ rights](https://www.peaceparks.org/100000-children-in-unique-project-to-fight-wildlife-crime-and-stand-up-for-girls-rights/) - A 100,000 children – a whole generation– in and around the national parks Gonarezhou in Zimbabwe and Limpopo in Mozambique are being educated through the Peace & Changemaker Generation project, as changemakers who can take a stand against wildlife crime, and for girls’ rights in their communities. The project is a partnership between the World’s Children’s Prize Foundation and Peace Parks Foundation.
- [Translocations: a look behind the scenes](https://www.peaceparks.org/translocations-a-look-behind-the-scenes/) - Peace Parks Foundation has a network of trusted crews who dedicate much of their time, often at a fraction of their commercial rates, to capture our work on film. These guys and girls are as tough as they are talented, often facing long hours in extreme temperatures with little to no sleep.
- [Conservation triumphs](https://www.peaceparks.org/conservation-triumphs/) - Intensive conservation management and rewilding efforts, implemented through a partnership between the Mozambique Government and Peace Parks Foundation since 2010, have completely changed the once empty Maputo Special Reserve and Zinave National Park landscapes.
- [Restoring balance for a brighter tomorrow](https://www.peaceparks.org/restoring-balance-for-a-brighter-tomorrow/) - The importance of biodiversity cannot be overstated. Each organism, whether it walks on two legs or four, flies or crawls, produces oxygen or breathes it, plays a critical role in keeping us alive. In our current world, there is a definite imbalance. Ecosystems are not functioning as they should and people and animals are suffering as a result.
- [The return of the eland](https://www.peaceparks.org/the-return-of-the-eland/) - This month, 21 of these magnificent antelopes leapt into their new home in Maputo Special Reserve from where the species had been absent for more than three decades.
- [Disrupting wildlife crime with leading tech](https://www.peaceparks.org/disrupting-wildlife-crime-with-leading-tech/) - In the oldest proclaimed nature reserve in Africa, an international team of technology and wildlife experts have come together to disrupt the status quo, and save wildlife species under threat.
- [Aerial support for anti-poaching teams in Malawi](https://www.peaceparks.org/aerial-support-for-anti-poaching-in-malawi/) - Yesterday, Peace Parks presented Malawi's Minister of Natural Resources, Energy and Mining, Honourable Bintony Kutsaira, M.P with a new Savannah aircraft. Peace Parks also provided the required resources to train a pilot which will create in-house aerial surveillance capacity.
- [Rewilding Zinave National Park](https://www.peaceparks.org/rewilding-zivane-natonal-park/) - Says Dr Bartolomeu Soto, Director-General of the National Administration for Conservation Areas: ‘We are realising the dream that we started when our countries signed the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park Treaty in 2002. We are grateful to the government of Zimbabwe and the donors for their tremendous support for giving a critical protected area a second chance. In particular our thanks goes to Peace Parks Foundation as a long-standing partner and supporter of conservation and development in Mozambique.’
- [Fabulous display of talent in Master Chef-style cook-off](https://www.peaceparks.org/fabulous-display-of-talent-in-a-master-chef-style-cook-off/) - The Fab Chef competition is an important milestone for the culinary students of the SA College for Tourism each year. It illustrates the incredibly high level of skills and expertise that the students are equipped with at the College - making them sought-after employees in the industry, and empowering them to take charge of their futures.
- [Bringing sable and oribi home](https://www.peaceparks.org/bringing-sable-and-oribi-home/) - In a large translocation operation recently concluded, 388 animals were moved from Mozambique’s Gorongosa National Park to Maputo Special Reserve and Zinave National Park. Zinave received 47 reedbuck and 48 sable - the first sable to return to the park in decades. In Maputo Special Reserve 247 waterbuck and 46 oribi were added to the reserve's wildlife family. There had not been oribi in the area for the longest time, and they were received back into the ecosystem with much celebration.
- [A decade of unyielding dedication to conservation](https://www.peaceparks.org/a-decade-of-unyielding-dedication-to-conservation/) - To his friends, Natercio Ngovene is a friendly father of six and grandfather of eight. He is generous with his smiles and quick with a joke. To strangers, however, Natercio may seem like a force to be reckoned with. His proud posture and fixed gaze demand respect. This is, of course, needed when you work as the head of anti-poaching in Mozambique’s Maputo Special Reserve.
- [Training Videos For Simalaha Community Conservancy](https://www.peaceparks.org/training-videos-for-simalaha-community-conservancy/) - Hitachi Data Systems and Xcelus, with generous support from the Kadans Foundation, has produced conservation farming training videos. The videos were distributed on Samsung Tablets that will be used by lead farmers to train people in the Simalaha Community Conservancy.
- [Zebra Return To The Simalaha Floodplains](https://www.peaceparks.org/zebra-return-to-the-simalaha-floodplains/) - It has been decades since there were zebra on the Simalaha floodplains. September 24, 2014 was a key day for Simalaha when 50 zebra were captured in the Salambala Conservancy in the Zambezi Region of Namibia and transported to the Simalaha Community Conservancy in Western Zambia.
- [Simahala Community Wildlife Monitors Deployed](https://www.peaceparks.org/simahala-community-wildlife-monitors-deployed/) - On 15 May the community wildlife monitors trained to work in the Simalaha Community Conservancy celebrated their passing out parade. The 22 wildlife monitors will replace the Sekute Community Trust and Zambia Wildlife Authority (ZAWA) rangers who had been monitoring the wildlife and the wildlife sanctuary fence since the first animals were translocated in October 2013. The financial support secured by Pifworld will be funding the monitors for two years.
- [First Wildlife Translocation To Simahala Community Conservancy](https://www.peaceparks.org/first-wildlife-translocation-to-simahala-community-conservancy/) - Sunday, 6 October 2013 saw the first ever wildlife translocation to the Simalaha Community Conservancy. Simalaha is one of Zambia’s first conservancies and will be an important area in KAZA TFCA to re-establish wildlife populations and their migration routes while stimulating community benefits through wildlife and tourism development.
- [Simalaha Wildlife Sanctuary Fence Completed](https://www.peaceparks.org/simalaha-wildlife-sanctuary-fence-completed/) - The Simalaha area, situated in south-western Zambia, falls within two chiefdoms, Sesheke and Chundu. Because of annual flooding, the area is mainly used for seasonal grazing. Senior Chief Inyambo Yeta and Chief Sekute of the Sesheke and Chundu chiefdoms agreed to establish the Simalaha Community Conservancy as a wildlife recovery area and a mechanism to stimulate benefits for the communities through wildlife and tourism development.
- [Sustainable Farming Skills For Simalaha Communities](https://www.peaceparks.org/sustainable-farming-skills-for-simalaha-communities/) - In 2012, Peace Parks Foundation received a generous donation from the Swedish Postcode Lottery to develop a wildlife sanctuary in the Simalaha Community Conservancy in south-western Zambia and improve the local people’s human rights, including their food security by training in better farming methods. The Kadans Foundation, with its partners Hitachi Data Systems and Hercuton, is now funding conservation agriculture in the conservancy.
- [Southern African Wildlife College’s sustainability strategy boosted by a €2.5m grant](https://www.peaceparks.org/southern-african-wildlife-colleges-sustainability-strategy-boosted-by-a-e2-5m-grant/) - The Southern African Wildlife College (SAWC) has been awarded the largest grant in its history, with an incredible investment of €2.5m from the MAVA Fondation pour la Nature towards the College’s Sustainability Fund.
- [On the trail of leopards in Rwanda](https://www.peaceparks.org/on-the-trail-of-leopards-in-rwanda/) - Graduates from the SA College for Tourism’s Tracker Academy have been closely involved in a leopard monitoring and habituation project at the Magashi concession in Rwanda’s Akagera National Park. Since December 2018, trackers have travelled in teams of two, spending three months on the project before returning home.
- [Wilderness awakens the hearts and minds of young Vietnamese rhino ambassadors](https://www.peaceparks.org/wilderness-awakens-rhino-ambassadors-from-vietnam/) - Every two years students from Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi in Vietnam travel to South Africa to embark on, what they call, a life-changing experience. Aged between 14 and 17, most of these children live in cities that are completely disconnected from the natural world. This experience changes that.
- [Vietnamese Youth Competition Winners To Help Rhino](https://www.peaceparks.org/vietnamese-youth-competition-winners-to-help-rhino/) - 'I think that buying rhino horns just to show others that you are rich is unreasonable, It infuriates me that the world has to sacrifice rhino just for a group of people wanting to basically show off their money.' These are the words of a young Vietnamese girl as written in a prize-winning essay in the 2017 Wild Rhino competition.
- [Vietnamese Youth Say No To Rhino Horn](https://www.peaceparks.org/vietnamese-youth-say-no-to-rhino-horn/) - A group of Vietnamese young people visiting South Africa have spoken out fervently against the use of rhino horn, some even apologising to South Africa on behalf of Vietnam for the manner in which the cultural practise by some of their fellow countrymen impacts on the devastating decline in rhino populations.
- [Vietnamese Youth To Serve As Ambassadors For Rhino Protection](https://www.peaceparks.org/vietnamese-youth-to-serve-as-ambassadors-for-rhino-protection/) - The 22 Vietnamese school-going students, who have just been announced as winners in the Wild Rhino Competition, will visit South Africa in 2015 to experience the plight of the rhino first-hand.
- [Rhino Ranger To The Rescue!](https://www.peaceparks.org/1188-2/) - The superhero character, Rhino Ranger, has been revealed through a series of posts on social media over a number of days, with the comic book itself due to be launched on November 1st in International schools across Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
- [Watch: Vietnamese Youth Vow To Protect Africa's Rhino'](https://www.peaceparks.org/watch-vietnamese-youth-vow-to-protect-africas-rhino/) - “The stories of the rhinos are ones that connect the past, the present, and the future. Let them be heard.” - Phan le Ha Long (Peter), Wild Rhino Youth Ambassador. “Never doubt your ability to make positive changes for the crisis. It will only be too late when we give up.” – Chang Nam (Jay), Wild Rhino Youth Ambassador
- ['We Can Make A Difference,' Says Vietnamese Youth](https://www.peaceparks.org/we-can-make-a-difference-says-vietnamese-youth/) - When asked whether they think the youth of Vietnam can actually make a difference, one can only hope that the words, straight from the mouths of babes, rings true: 'The thing about young people is that we are eager still to embrace our world. We are open to the truth. On this trail we have learnt the most beautiful word Ubuntu, which means "to help others without expecting anything in return". We will show the rhino Ubuntu. Our people have driven the rhinos over the precipice of the cliff, and we are the ones who will bring them back.'
- [Vietnamese Youth Embark On Rhino Conservation Experience](https://www.peaceparks.org/vietnamese-youth-embark-on-rhino-conservation-experience/) - "We are very excited to be in Africa for the first time, but we understand why we are here – we are here to learn so that we can take the message of rhino protection and conservation back to our country."
- [Vietnamese youth: "It's not too late"](https://www.peaceparks.org/wildrhino2019/) - Increasingly, the next generation of decision-makers in Vietnam seek to learn more about, and speak up against, environmental crimes such as rhino poaching. The Forever Wild Rhino Protection Initiative – a collaboration between Wilderness Foundation Africa (WFA), Peace Parks Foundation (PPF), Olsen Animal Trust (OAT) and SOUL Music & Performing Arts Academy (SOUL) in Vietnam – is providing these young people with educational and social platforms to do just that.
- [Rhino Ranger returns to stop the demand for rhino horn in Vietnam](https://www.peaceparks.org/rhino-ranger-returns-to-stop-the-demand-for-rhino-horn-in-vietnam/) - Rhino Ranger returned this month with a second edition of the popular Rhino Ranger Comic book targeted at changing the hearts and minds of school-going Vietnamese youth to reduce and ultimately stop the demand for rhino horn.
- [Vietnamese Youth Appeal To The Peers To Stop Using Rhino Horn](https://www.peaceparks.org/vietnamese-youth-appeal-to-the-peers-to-stop-using-rhino-horn/) - Vietnamese youth from Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) are appealing to their friends, family and peers to stop using rhino horn.
- [Using fabric furs to protect wild cats in Zambia](https://www.peaceparks.org/using-fabric-furs-to-protect-wild-cats-in-zambia/) - Panthera, the global wild cat conservation organization, and the Barotse Royal Establishment of the Lozi People in partnership with Peace Parks Foundation and Cartier have launched the Saving Spots project – an innovative and culturally-sensitive conservation initiative that seeks to protect declining wild cat populations using synthetic leopard, serval and lion furs, known as ‘Heritage Furs’.
- [Empowering the next generation of conservationists](https://www.peaceparks.org/empowering-the-next-generation-of-conservationists/) - Through Peace Park’s relationship with De Beers, Planner and GIS Technician, Khuthi Nethengwe, was selected to attend a prestigious learning event in Brazil. The two-week course was run by the Conservation Leadership Programme, a partnership of three leading biodiversity conservation organisations – Fauna & Flora International, BirdLife International and the Wildlife Conservation Society.
- [Welcoming new board members](https://www.peaceparks.org/welcoming-new-board-members/) - Peace Parks Foundation is proud to welcome Mr Neville Isdell and Mr Gerhard Swiegers to our board.
- [Collaring provides insight into elephant movement](https://www.peaceparks.org/collaring-provides-insight-into-elephant-movement/) - During a week-long operation that took place during July 2019 in Limpopo and Banhine national parks in Mozambique, nine elephants were collared by teams from Saving the Survivors and Elephants Alive. Placing tracking collars on elephants can provide incredibly valuable information on the areas in which they roam
- [Honouring our bravest on World Ranger Day](https://www.peaceparks.org/honouring-our-bravest-on-world-ranger-day/) - This World Ranger Day, Peace Parks Foundation pays tribute to the brave men and women who are guarding Africa's precious conservation areas.
- [New tourism route launched](https://www.peaceparks.org/new-tourism-route-launched/) - 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 Drakensberg World Heritage Site in South Africa.
- [Maloti Drakensberg Transboundary World Heritage Site](https://www.peaceparks.org/maloti-drakensberg-transboundary-world-heritage-site/) - The World Heritage Committee of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has inscribed Lesotho’s Sehlabathebe National Park as an extension to the uKhahlamba Drakensberg World Heritage Site in South Africa and it will now to be named the Maloti Drakensberg Transboundary World Heritage Site.
- [New partners for Royal Jozini Big 6](https://www.peaceparks.org/new-partners-for-royal-jozini-big-6/) - At a function in Lavumisa on Friday to mark the opening of the first construction tenders, the directors of Royal Jozini Big 6 announced the participation of a prominent South African property consortium in the development of the resort infrastructure and golf course.
- [Greater Mapungubwe Rangers - Custodian Of Conservation](https://www.peaceparks.org/greater-mapungubwe-rangers-custodian-of-conservation/) - Field staff and park rangers of the GMTFCA meet regularly to exchange information and develop strategies to overcome their particular challenges. Representing this dedication to cross-border collaboration, a brand new badge that contains the flags of all three countries will hence forward be worn by all field staff.
- [Mapungubwe Tri-Nations Camp: Joining Youth Across Borders](https://www.peaceparks.org/mapungubwe-tri-nations-camp-joining-youth-across-borders/) - Children in the Wilderness (CITW) hosted its third successful Tri-Nations Camp at Little Muck Camp in Mapungubwe National Park from 12 to 15 December 2017, in partnership with the South African Department of Environmental Affairs, South African National Parks and the Peace Parks Foundation.
- [A woman named elephant](https://www.peaceparks.org/a-woman-named-elephant/) - Cathrine Ndlovu is much tougher than she looks. As the only female field ranger in the eastern section of The Greater Mapungubwe Transfrontier Conservation Area, she does everything the men do – and with no qualms.
- [Mapungubwe - rising to greatness](https://www.peaceparks.org/mapungubwe-rising-to-greatness/) - The Greater Mapungubwe Transfrontier Conservation Area lies in a magnificent landscape with the Limpopo River flowing through it. Here cultural antiquity meets current-day conservation, and three countries collaborate to protect the ecosystem they share. It’s a place with a little of everything and a lot of uniqueness.
- [Park gives power to the people](https://www.peaceparks.org/park-gives-power-to-the-people/) - INITIATIVES often acquire more teeth when they are linked across national borders, and the same can be said for the Lubombo Transfrontier Conservation Area. This giant Transfrontier Conservation Area (TFCA) includes the Usuthu-Tembe-Futi TFCA and Kosi Bay Ponta da Ouro (which link South Africa with Mozambique); the Pongola- Nsubane TFCA (which links South Africa with Swaziland); and the Lubombo Goba Conservancy (which links Swaziland with Mozambique).
- [Winning the battle against poverty and unemployment](https://www.peaceparks.org/winning-the-battle-against-poverty-and-unemployment/) - Describing the area as poor with no hope of upliftment, except through conservation, Sithole said the Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism had ploughed about R8 million into poverty alleviation in the area.
- [Mending fences](https://www.peaceparks.org/mending-fences/) - One of the issues being discussed at yesterday’s indaba between senior personnel from Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife and members of the local communities, was when the fences would be dropped between Ndumo Game Reserve and the adjoining Usuthu Gorge Community Conservation Area.
- [Whales, sharks and turtles have chosen well](https://www.peaceparks.org/whales-sharks-and-turtles-have-chosen-well/) - The Greater St Lucia Wetland Park, which was proclaimed SA's first World Heritage Site in 1999, plays host to five different ecosystems within a relatively small area of 260 000 ha. At the heart of the park is a complex system of estuarine and freshwater lakes, fed by five rivers.
- [First aerial game count of the Usuthu-Tembe-Futi TFCA](https://www.peaceparks.org/first-aerial-game-count-of-the-usuthu-tembe-futi-tfca/) - South Africa and Mozambique joined forces between the 2nd and 5th of November in the first aerial game count of the Usuthu-Tembe-Futi Transfrontier Conservation Area (TFCA). The counts resulted from the close working relationship between conservation management staff at Tembe Elephant Park and the Maputo Special Reserve. This relationship has recently been fostered through the
- [Conservation breakthrough in Maputaland](https://www.peaceparks.org/conservation-breakthrough-in-maputaland/) - New community-owned facility to be a catalyst for development A NEW community-owned conservation area has opened the door towards a much larger park network in Maputaland, including a direct link between the Ndumo Game Reserve and Tembe Elephant Park. The new 20 000 ha Bhekabantu Community Conservation Area was initiated last week during a sod-turning
- [College Develops Rhino Ambassador Training](https://www.peaceparks.org/college-develops-rhino-ambassador-training/) - The Southern African Wildlife College has, with the support of Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife, been instrumental in developing the training materials and conducting the initial training of community rhino ambassadors drawn from local communities surrounding four of KwaZulu-Natal’s protected areas that have rhino populations.
- [A flourishing haven for marine life](https://www.peaceparks.org/a-flourishing-haven-for-marine-life/) - The Ponta do Ouro Partial Marine Reserve is home to a variety of marine fauna and flora, from a myriad of tropical fish, humpback whales, dolphins, sea turtles and dugongs, to healthy seagrass beds and a kaleidoscope of coral reefs.
- [53 More Giants Moved](https://www.peaceparks.org/53-more-giants-moved/) - De Beers Group and Peace Parks Foundation has progressed the pioneering 'Moving Giants' elephant conservation initiative, with 53 more elephants successfully moved from South Africa to Zinave National Park in Mozambique.
- [Enabling extended anti-poaching field operations](https://www.peaceparks.org/enabling-extended-anti-poaching-field-operations/) - Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife (Ezemvelo) received five tactical trailers that will enable ranger forces to be deployed in the field for longer periods of time. The trailers are funded through a grant from the U.S. State Department’s Bureau for International Narcotic and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL).
- [SA College for Tourism students strut their stuff](https://www.peaceparks.org/sa-college-for-tourism-students-strut-their-stuff/) - A recent visit by the 2019 ROAR Africa Women Empowerment group to the SA College for Tourism Hospitality Training campus in Graaff-Reinet, allowed students to showcase their newly learnt skills.
- [Enter the mighty buffalo!](https://www.peaceparks.org/enter-the-mighty-buffalo/) - Maputo Special Reserve (MSR) received 99 new buffalo on 26 and 27 June 2019. The animals were translocated from Sabie Game Park as part of a larger rewilding project aimed at restoring the country’s conservation areas.
- [How the zebra and giraffe traveled to Zinave](https://www.peaceparks.org/how-the-zebra-and-giraffe-travelled-to-zinave/) - During the second week of July, 2019, zebra and giraffe were captured on a private game reserve in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa and taken across countr-borders to Zinave National Park in Mozambique.
- [The day the buffalo returned to Simalaha](https://www.peaceparks.org/the-day-the-buffalo-returned-to-simalaha/) - The first 90 of 200 African buffalo were presented to the communities of Senior Chief Inyambo Yeta and Deputy Chief Joyce Sekute to further develop the Simalaha Community Conservancy, that forms a vital Zambian component of the Kavango Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area, or KAZA as it is known.
- [Wildlife Thriving In Maputo Special Reserve, Mozambique](https://www.peaceparks.org/wildlife-thriving-in-maputo-special-reserve-mozambique/) - At the end of September, the Maputo Special Reserve/Tembe Elephant Park management committee conducted an aerial census to determine the status of the large herbivore species in Maputo Special Reserve, with a focus on the species that had been reintroduced. The census was made possible thanks to funding from the National Administration for Conservation Areas
- [Restocking Simalaha Community Conservancy](https://www.peaceparks.org/restocking-simalaha-community-conservancy/) - On 13 August, eight giraffe from Salambala Conservancy in the Zambezi Region of Namibia were welcomed to Simalaha Community Conservancy during a festive event hosted by Chief Sekute of the Kazungula District
- [Wildlife Population Increasing Steadily](https://www.peaceparks.org/wildlife-population-increasing-steadily/) - In 2010 the Mozambican government began a translocation programme to Maputo Special Reserve in order to re-introduce species that were historically found in the area and to develop a tourism product. This multi-year endeavour has been made possible thanks to South Africa’s Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife kindly donating and translocating the wildlife, and Peace Parks Foundation donors supporting the translocation. In total 904 animals have been translocated since 2010.
- [Seven elephants released into Mozambique](https://www.peaceparks.org/seven-elephants-released-into-mozambique/) - A family group of seven elephants were translocated from the Kruger National Park to the Limpopo National Park in Mozambique yesterday.
- [40 elephants move to Mozambique](https://www.peaceparks.org/40-elephants-move-to-mozambique/) - During the first week in September, South Africa will translocate approximately 40 elephants from the Kruger National Park (KNP) to the relatively new Limpopo National Park (LNP) in Mozambique. The translocation of animals is an important component of the development process of the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park (GLTP) aimed at facilitating the establishment of wildlife in the Limpopo National Park.
- [More animals for Limpopo National Park](https://www.peaceparks.org/more-animals-for-limpopo-national-park/) - Another massive translocation on animals is under way. Peace Parks Foundation has secured R18-million for the three-year programme to translocate elephants and other wild animals to Limpopo National Park.
- [Charles And Lumpy Lead The Way To Zivane](https://www.peaceparks.org/charles-and-lumpy-lead-the-way-to-zivane/) - This week saw the first two of 54 elephants safely released in Zinave National Park, Mozambique. The two elephant bulls, Charles and Lumpy, were translocated from Dinokeng Game Reserve in Gauteng – their home for the past twenty years. Tiny Tim and Hot Stuff – also elephant bulls – will follow hot on their heels.
- [Second translocation to Maputo Special Reserve](https://www.peaceparks.org/second-translocation-to-maputo-special-reserve/) - On Friday, 5 August 2011, 24 zebras from Ithala Game Reserve in South Africa, were successfully introduced to Maputo Special Reserve in Mozambique. The operation ended at about 7.00 pm.
- [Translocation of game to the ‡Khomani San's Erin game farm](https://www.peaceparks.org/translocation-of-game-to-the-‡khomani-sans-erin-game-farm/) - As part of the 2002 land settlement agreement reached between the ‡Khomani San and Mier communities, the government of South Africa and South African National Parks (SANParks), it had been agreed that the latter would also translocate game to the value of R640 000 to one of the ‡Khomani San properties.
- [DE BEERS Group Partners With Peace Parks Foundation On One Of The Largest Elephant Translocations In South Africa's History](https://www.peaceparks.org/de-beers-group-partners-with-peace-parks-foundation-on-one-of-the-largest-elephant-translocations-in-south-africas-history/) - 200 Elephants to be moved from South Africa to Mozambique For the first phase of the project, approximately 60 elephants will be transported in July and August from the VLNR to Zinave National Park in southern Mozambique. The remaining elephants will be moved to conservation areas that hold sufficient elephant carrying capacity within Mozambique from
- [Elephants With A Purpose](https://www.peaceparks.org/elephants-with-a-purpose/) - Expert teams from Elephants, Rhinos & People (ERP – erp.ngo), Conservation Solutions, and Ezemvelo, supported by the Department of Environmental Affairs, came together to capture 29 of the uMkhuze and 24 of the Ithala elephants and transport them safely through a 1 250 km journey with greater purpose.
- [Watch: Rewilding Zinave](https://www.peaceparks.org/watch-rewilding-zinave/) - This week the last 33 of 250 buffalo were safely delivered from Marromeu Game Reserve to Zinave National Park in Mozambique, bringing to an end the wildlife translocation season for 2017. A total of 783 animals were successfully translocated to Zinave this year, which included 93 reedbuck and 387 waterbuck from Gorongosa National Park.
- [Entangled: a sea turtle rescued](https://www.peaceparks.org/entangled-a-sea-turtle-rescued/) - With only its head still peeking from the entangled net, this turtle was clinging to life. Could she be saved?
- [Turtle Protection In Africa's First Marine TFCA](https://www.peaceparks.org/turtle-protection-in-africas-first-marine-tfca/) - The marine turtle monitoring programme in the Mozambican component of the Lubombo TFCA has had another successful season.
- [Turtle monitoring programme](https://www.peaceparks.org/turtle-monitoring-programme/) - 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 to the Maputo River Mouth in Maputo Bay in the north. The Ponta do Ouro Partial Marine Reserve stretches three nautical miles into the Indian Ocean and includes Inhaca Island and Portuguese Island.
- [Getting ready for another wild translocation season](https://www.peaceparks.org/getting-ready-for-another-wild-translocation-season/) - Peace Parks is gearing up for what is to be one of our busiest seasons yet as we aim to translocate more than 2 000 animals from 15 capture sites.
- [Saluting the brave rangers who helped cyclone Kenneth victims](https://www.peaceparks.org/saluting-the-brave-rangers-who-helped-cyclone-kenneth-victims/) - Hundreds of thousands of Mozambicans were affected by the country's worst cyclone yet. We deployed 17 brave rangers from Maputo Special Reserve, Zinave and Limpopo national parks on a 5 000 km journey to go and help.
- [Conservation partnership secures the future of Zambian forests](https://www.peaceparks.org/conservation-partnership-secures-the-future-of-zambian-forests/) - Zambia loses forest four times the size of New York City to deforestation every year. BCP (BioCarbon Partners) and Peace Parks Foundation are working to stop this.
- [Swedish Postcode Lottery Commits Significant Funding To Conservation](https://www.peaceparks.org/swedish-postcode-lottery-commits-significant-funding-to-conservation/) - Anna Belfrage, Chairman of the Board for Peace Parks Foundation Sweden expresses her deep appreciation, "Peace Parks Foundation Sweden wishes to thank the Swedish Postcode Lottery for the generous donations we received for our work in southern Africa. Peace Parks Foundation Sweden has been a beneficiary of the Postcode Lottery since 2010 and has, over the years, received just over SEK 92,000 000, of which SEK 24,999,900 for was donated towards Special Projects.
- [SEK7 Million From The Swedish Postcode Lottery!](https://www.peaceparks.org/sek7-million-from-the-swedish-postcode-lottery/) - Thank You! Peace Parks Foundation thanks the Swedish Postcode Lottery and the many ticket buyers for their tremendous and continued support, which has made a major contribution to transfrontier conservaton development in southern Africa, as well as to improved livelihoods in Simalaha Community Conservancy and the implementation of the Rhino Protection Programme.
- [Another 8 Million Swedish Krona From The Swedish Postcode Lottery](https://www.peaceparks.org/another-8-million-swedish-krona-from-the-swedish-postcode-lottery/) - Peace Parks Foundation Sweden is the grateful recipient of 8 million Swedish Krona from the Swedish Postcode Lottery. This brings the total received from the Swedish Postcode Lottery to date, to SEK72 million.
- [SEK19 Million From The Swedish Postcode Lottery!](https://www.peaceparks.org/sek19-million-from-the-swedish-postcode-lottery/) - On 20 February 2014 Peace Parks Foundation Sweden, as a beneficiary of the Swedish Postcode Lottery, became the very fortunate recipient of SEK10 million. In addition to this, Peace Parks Foundation also received the cheque for SEK9 million to combat rhino poaching, to coincide with the €14.4 million from the Dutch Postcode Lottery Dream Fund,
- [Dutch Postcode Lottery Gives Charities A Record €291 Million](https://www.peaceparks.org/dutch-postcode-lottery-gives-charities-a-record-e291-million/) - More than 90 good causes graced the Dutch Postcode Lottery's annual Goed Geld Gala at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam on 13 February 2013. The Netherlands' largest charity lottery announced that it would donate a record €291 million to charitable organisations this year thanks to its 2.5 million players.
- [Peace Peaks Foundation Receives Another €1.35 Million From The Dutch Postcode Lottery](https://www.peaceparks.org/peace-peaks-foundation-receives-another-e1-35-million-from-the-dutch-postcode-lottery/) - Thank You! The Dutch Postcode Lottery has been a loyal supporter of the work of Peace Parks Foundation for over 16 years
- [PEACE PARKS FOUNDATION RECEIVES ANOTHER €1.35 MILLION FROM THE DUTCH POSTCODE LOTTERY](https://www.peaceparks.org/peace-parks-foundation-receives-another-e1-35-million-from-the-dutch-postcode-lottery/) - Once again, Peace Parks Foundation, as a beneficiary of the Dutch Postcode Lottery, has been the very fortunate recipient of another €1.35 million at the Goed Geld Gala held on 26 January 2016.
- [DUTCH POSTCODE LOTTERY DONATES RECORD AMOUNT OF €341 MILLION TO CHARITY](https://www.peaceparks.org/dutch-postcode-lottery-donates-record-amount-of-e341-million-to-charity/) - Peace Parks Foundation has, for the 15th consecutive year, received a contribution from the Dutch Postcode Lottery. This year Peace Parks Foundation again received a cheque for €1.35 million to continue working on the realisation of 10 transfrontier conservation areas across southern Africa. John Loudon, Peace Parks Foundation Director in the Netherlands, says: 'The contribution of the Dutch Postcode Lottery is incredibly important to enable us to continue our work of developing cross-border parks.' In 2014, Peace Parks Foundation received €14.4 million from the Dream Fund of the Dutch Postcode Lottery. 'With that money we manage to, step by step, better protect the rhino. The first positive results have been achieved!'
- [Another huge donation from the Dutch Postcode Lottery!](https://www.peaceparks.org/another-huge-donation-from-the-dutch-postcode-lottery/) - On 9 February 2012, Peace Parks Foundation was the very fortunate recipient of €1.35 million from the Dutch Postcode Lottery at its Goed Geld Gala in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
- [17 years of support from the Dutch Postcode Lottery](https://www.peaceparks.org/17-years-of-support-from-the-dutch-postcode-lottery/) - Peace Park Foundation has received a contribution of €1,350,000 from the Dutch Postcode Lottery to continue their work on the establishment of transfrontier conservation areas in southern Africa, as well as an additional €3,000,000 for the further development of wildlife corridors in the Kavango Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area.
- [500 animals journey from Kruger to Zinave](https://www.peaceparks.org/500fromkrugertozinave/) - Through the support received from DEA and SANParks, a total of 291 impala, 153 wildebeest and 85 zebra were moved from Kruger National Park into Zinave this year, with Peace Parks Foundation funding the translocation costs.
- [SA Lottery supports !Ae!Hai Kalahari Heritage Park](https://www.peaceparks.org/sa-lottery-supports-aehai-kalahari-heritage-park/) - South Africa's National Lottery Distribution Trust Fund injects millions to support the !Ae!Hai Kalahari Heritage Park in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park.
- [New Ranger Base For Limpopo National Park's 16TH Anniversary](https://www.peaceparks.org/new-ranger-base-for-limpopo-national-parks-16th-anniversary/) - This week, Limpopo National Park (LNP) celebrated its 16th anniversary. Mozambique proclaimed the Park on 27 November 2001 and requested Peace Parks Foundation’s assistance in overseeing the park’s development as a Southern African Development Community (SADC) approved project, funded by the German Federal Ministry for Cooperation and Development (BMZ) through KfW, Agence Française de Développement (AFD), the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) and the World Bank.
- [Community to develop ecotourist lodge in Maputo Special Reserve, Lubombo TFCA](https://www.peaceparks.org/community-to-develop-ecotourist-lodge-in-maputo-special-reserve-lubombo-tfca/) - 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 lodge in the northern section of Maputo Special Reserve. This landmark agreement marks the first time that a Mozambique community has received long-term concession rights to a prime tourism site in a major nature reserve.
- [Opening of Marine Reserve’s headquarters, Mozambique](https://www.peaceparks.org/opening-of-marine-reserves-headquarters-mozambique-2/) - 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.
- [Proclamation of Marine Protected Area in Africa’s first Marine TFCA](https://www.peaceparks.org/proclamation-of-marine-protected-area-in-africas-first-marine-tfca-2/) - On 14 July 2009 the government of Mozambique took a significant step in protecting its coastline when it declared a 678km² Marine Protected Area stretching from Ponta do Ouro in the south to the Maputo River Mouth in Maputo Bay in the north and including the Inhaca and Portuguese islands. The Marine Protected Area stretches three nautical miles into sea.
- [Wild editor hosts transfrontier series](https://www.peaceparks.org/wild-editor-hosts-transfrontier-series-2/) - Cameron Ewart-Smith, editor of Wild magazine, the official publication of the Wild Card programme and its partner parks, will reveal transfrontier conservation areas or peace parks on SABC.
- [Toyota Enviro Outreach: In conversation with Theresa Sowry](https://www.peaceparks.org/toyota-enviro-outreach-in-conversation-with-theresa-sowry-2/) - Litnet's Naomi Bruwer interviews Theresa Sowry, Executive Manager: Training of the Southern African Wildlife College, seen here at the 2008 graduation ceremony.
- [Birth of Earth's greatest park](https://www.peaceparks.org/birth-of-earths-greatest-park-2/) - The Chobe and Zambezi are the arteries of a gigantic peace park in the making; one that is set to alleviate the overpopulation of elephants along these banks and transform tourism in southern Africa.
- [Avis keeps Peace Parks Foundation on the move](https://www.peaceparks.org/avis-keeps-peace-parks-foundation-on-the-move-2/) - Avis has once again renewed its commitment to the Peace Parks Foundation by sponsoring the non-profit organisation (NGO) with the use of a Volkswagen Polo and a Toyota Fortuner.
- [Mapungubwe Interpretive Center named World Building of the Year](https://www.peaceparks.org/mapungubwe-interpretive-center-named-world-building-of-the-year/) - A University of Cambridge lecturer is among a team of designers, architects and engineers that have won three awards for their contributions to a new eco-friendly visitor center in South Africa.
- [R8.46 million boost to South Africa's tourism industry](https://www.peaceparks.org/r8-46-million-boost-to-south-africas-tourism-industry/) - On Friday, 20 November 2009, South Africa's National Lotteries Board informed the SA College for Tourism in Graaff-Reinet of a fantastic cash injection of R8.46 million! This is the largest single monetary donation the College has received in its ten years of existence. The College trains young rural and disadvantaged women from around the SADC region in hospitality skills.
- [Southern African Wildlife College 2009 graduation ceremony](https://www.peaceparks.org/southern-african-wildlife-college-2009-graduation-ceremony/) - On 5 November 2009, 27 rangers and conservation staff from five African countries graduated from the Southern African Wildlife College.
- [Another milestone toward Africa's biggest conservation area](https://www.peaceparks.org/another-milestone-toward-africas-biggest-conservation-area/) - On 19 February 2009 the integrated development plan (IDP) for the Zimbabwe component of the KAZA TFCA was signed.
- [Peace Parks Foundation's new premises](https://www.peaceparks.org/peace-parks-foundations-new-premises/) - Peace Parks Foundation has relocated its offices in Stellenbosch to 11 Termo Road, Techno Park.
- [R9.59 million boost to training wildlife managers](https://www.peaceparks.org/r9-59-million-boost-to-training-wildlife-managers/) - South Africa's National Lottery Distribution Trust Fund (NDLTF) yesterday informed the Southern African Wildlife College in Kruger National Park of its grant allocation of R9.59 million to the College to train South African students.
- [R40 million cheque to Lesotho for Maloti-Drakensberg TFCA](https://www.peaceparks.org/r40-million-cheque-to-lesotho-for-maloti-drakensberg-tfca/) - On 9 April the South African Deputy Minister of Water and Environmental Affairs, Ms Rejoice Mabudafhasi handed over a R40 million cheque to the Kingdom of Lesotho Minister of Tourism, Environment and Culture.
- [R2 million boost for conservation and the Southern African Wildlife College](https://www.peaceparks.org/r2-million-boost-for-conservation-and-the-southern-african-wildlife-college/) - Conservation in Southern Africa has received a R2 million boost thanks to the Professional Hunters Association of Southern Africa (PHASA) through the Southern African Wildlife College.
- [Fight to save the Mapungubwe World Heritage Site intensifies](https://www.peaceparks.org/fight-to-save-the-mapungubwe-world-heritage-site-intensifies/) - The fight to protect the Mapungubwe Cultural Landscape from coal mining heated up this week with the submission of an appeal against the mine by some of the leading non-governmental organisations in South Africa. Australian company Coal of Africa Limited (CoAL) was recently given the go ahead to begin construction of an opencast and underground coal mine within less than 6km from the borders of the Mapungubwe National Park and adjacent to the World Heritage Site, with the approval of the Environmental Management Plan for the proposed Vele Colliery.
- [German state bank gives 20m euros to KAZA TFCA](https://www.peaceparks.org/german-state-bank-gives-20m-euros-to-kaza-tfca/) - KfW Entwicklungsbank finances world's biggest conservation area in Africa
- [Absa supports SA College for Tourism](https://www.peaceparks.org/absa-supports-sa-college-for-tourism/) - Absa partners with Toursim College in Graaff-Reinet to empower young women
- [New Peace Parks Foundation Director](https://www.peaceparks.org/new-peace-parks-foundation-director/) - Tom Boardman appointed to Peace Parks Foundation Board of Directors.
- [KAZA TFCA MINISTERS COMMUNIQUÉ](https://www.peaceparks.org/kaza-tfca-ministers-communique/) - Ministers of five partner countries reiterate their commitment
- [Mining in the Mapungubwe area ceases – for now](https://www.peaceparks.org/mining-in-the-mapungubwe-area-ceases-for-now/) - The fight to protect the Mapungubwe Cultural Landscape and its surrounding area from coal mining was taken to the next level with a number of actions taken by civil society and a government department.
- [Opening of the Hans Hoheisen Wildlife Research Station](https://www.peaceparks.org/opening-of-the-hans-hoheisen-wildlife-research-station/) - On 25 August 2010 the the refurbished and upgraded Hans Hoheisen Wildlife Research Station was officially opened.
- [Development of Mozambique's Maputo Special Reserve](https://www.peaceparks.org/development-of-mozambiques-maputo-special-reserve/) - The first wildlife translocation to Maputo Special Reserve took place from 14 - 16 September 2010.
- [Van Loveren’s Big Five set to benefit Wildlife College](https://www.peaceparks.org/van-loverens-big-five-set-to-benefit-wildlife-college/) - Southern African Wildlife College will benefit from the sale of Van Loveren's Five's Reserve wines
- [Another hugely successful year!](https://www.peaceparks.org/another-hugely-successful-year/) - The SA College for Tourism held their annual graduation ceremony on Friday 19 November in Graaff Reinet, hosted by its Chairperson, Mrs Gaynor Rupert. This year 86 young unemployed women were empowered by the College completing an externally moderated Certificate in Small Accommodation Establishment Operations as well as four national skills development certificates in hospitality services issued by The South African Tourism, Hospitality & Sport Education and Training Authority. Certificates in respects of the Certificate course were awarded by the Central University of Technology, School of Tourism, Hospitality & Sport, the training partner and external moderator of the College.
- [Wildlife College salutes its 2010 graduands](https://www.peaceparks.org/wildlife-college-salutes-its-2010-graduands/) - This year a record number of students graduated from the Southern African Wildlife College which is making great strides towards becoming the most sought after Centre of Excellence in Conservation Education and Wildlife Management training in the southern African sub-region.
- [New Director](https://www.peaceparks.org/new-director/) - Peace Parks Foundation is very pleased to announce the appointment of Senior Chief Inyambo Yeta to its Board of Directors.
- [Joint activities](https://www.peaceparks.org/joint-activities/) - Joint activities between the Namibian and South African components of the Transfrontier Park got under way in 2010. These include joint patrols by park managers and the introduction of a border permit that allows officials from both countries to easily cross the border while on official duty, providing they stay within the boundaries of the Transfrontier Park.
- [Joint access facility](https://www.peaceparks.org/joint-access-facility/) - The tourism access facility at Two Rivers / Twee Rivieren is jointly manned by customs officials from Botswana and South Africa.
- [KAZA TFCA website launch](https://www.peaceparks.org/kaza-tfca-website-launch/) - The Kavango Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA TFCA) today launched its website at the international tourism fair being held in Berlin, Germany. KAZA is potentially the world’s largest transfrontier conservation area which aims to streamline efforts for natural resource management, and tourism development across the international borders between Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe for the benefit of the people living within and around the TFCA.
- [Annual TFCA meeting](https://www.peaceparks.org/annual-tfca-meeting/) - On 18 and 19 April 2011, Peace Parks Foundation held its annual meeting with all staff, including the international coordinators and programme managers based in the various peace parks and in the implementing agencies of the relevant partner countries. A total of some 70 personnel members and invitees from the Ministry of Tourism of Mozambique and the South African Department of Environmental Affairs participated in the meeting.
- [Peace Parks Foundation now owns its offices](https://www.peaceparks.org/peace-parks-foundation-now-owns-its-offices/) - Peace Parks Foundation is delighted to now be the proud owner of the office building it has been occupying since February 2010. The Foundation’s Executive Committee had carefully weighed the options before giving its approval for the acquisition
- [Futi Corridor now a protected area](https://www.peaceparks.org/futi-corridor-now-a-protected-area/) - In one of the Lubombo Transfrontier Conservation and Resource Area’s most important developments, the government of Mozambique on 14 June 2011 approved the declaration of the Futi Corridor as a protected area.
- [Women 'on the spoor'](https://www.peaceparks.org/women-on-the-spoor/) - The Tracker Academy has been training professional trackers through its CATHSSETA accredited programme since 2010. In 2018, the programme expanded its reach to include the intake of the first two female tracker students at the Tswalu campus in the Kalahari.
- [KAZA TREATY SIGNED](https://www.peaceparks.org/kaza-treaty-signed/) - Five presidents sign a treaty to establish the Kavango Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA TFCA)
- [New honorary patron: President Jacob Zuma of South Africa](https://www.peaceparks.org/new-honorary-patron-president-jacob-zuma-of-south-africa/) - Peace Parks Foundation is very pleased to announce that the President of South Africa, Mr Jacob Zuma, has kindly agreed to become an honorary patron of the Foundation and, in accepting, expressed his support for the peace parks initiative.
- [Research on Foot and Mouth Disease](https://www.peaceparks.org/research-on-foot-and-mouth-disease/) - During the official opening of the Hans Hoheisen Wildlife Research Station in August 2010, Peace Parks Foundation, with support from Turner Foundation, made available a donation towards priority research concerning veterinary issues in transfrontier conservation areas. The Research Station provides a dedicated platform for local and international researchers to conduct experimental work focused on animal diseases and related issues at the transfrontier interface between people, livestock and wildlife.
- [Five presidents sign a treaty to establish the Kavango Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA TFCA)](https://www.peaceparks.org/five-presidents-sign-a-treaty-to-establish-the-kavango-zambezi-transfrontier-conservation-area-kaza-tfca/) - On 18 August 2011 at the SADC Summit in Luanda, Angola, the Presidents of the Republics of Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe signed a Treaty which formally and legally establishes the Kavango Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA TFCA)
- [Wildlife College trains Kruger contractors](https://www.peaceparks.org/wildlife-college-trains-kruger-contractors/) - The Kruger National Park (KNP)’s HOD: Technical Services, Blake Schraader presented the certificates to 150 emerging contractors in Skukuza on Friday, August 19, 2011. The certificates are for the Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) contractor training which ran for the first time in the Park (March-July 2011) and was funded by South Africa's Department of Environmental Affairs’ social responsibility programme.
- [KAZA TFCA Secretariat offices opened in Kasane](https://www.peaceparks.org/kaza-tfca-secretariat-offices-opened-in-kasane/) - On 26 August 2011, the Kavango Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA TFCA) Secretariat's offices were officially opened by Mr Kitso Mokaila, Minister of Environment, Wildlife and Tourism of Botswana and Mr Dirk Niebel, Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development of Germany. Standing in the middle, is Mr Sedia Modise, Regional Coordinator for KAZA TFCA. The German Federal Ministry for Cooperation and Development, through KfW, is the main supporter of the KAZA TFCA development.
- [A unique opportunity](https://www.peaceparks.org/a-unique-opportunity/) - The Southern African Wildlife College Trust (SACET), in collaboration with the Southern African Wildlife College, has over the years contemplated the possibility of running a specialised, hands-on exclusive "outreach study course" at the Wildlife College, intended for devotees of the bushveld, game reserves and supporters of environmental conservation.
- [Absa Bank supports Peace Parks Foundation and the SA College for Tourism](https://www.peaceparks.org/absa-bank-supports-peace-parks-foundation-and-the-sa-college-for-tourism/) - General Manager of Absa's Corporate Social Investment (CSI), Ms Mihloti Mathye, stated that Absa, as a champion in working with diverse communities, initiated the Absa CSI Open Days to re-state Absa's commitment to the country's growth and development. It also offers an opportunity for the bank to thank its partners and stakeholders for walking the development journey with the organisation towards building a brighter future for all across South Africa.
- [Features of the !Ae!Hai Kalahari Heritage Park](https://www.peaceparks.org/features-of-the-aehai-kalahari-heritage-park/) - Apart from the spectacular landscape of the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, the !Ae!Hai Kalahari Heritage Park also offers a variety of activities to visitors. These include sharing the Bushman hunter-gatherer culture and their deep understanding of the natural environment, as well as their world view and spirituality.
- [Elephant restraining line enables a good harvest](https://www.peaceparks.org/elephant-restraining-line-enables-a-good-harvest/) - During the consultation process to draft an integrated development plan (IDP) for the Zambian component of the Kavango Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA TFCA), Kabula 2 village was identified as one of the villages most severely affected by human/wildlife conflict, particularly from elephants eating up crops. Kabula 2 is situated between the northern boundary of Sioma Ngwezi National Park and the river and therefore on one of the main elephant corridors in the area.
- [Proud Tracker Graduates Dream Of Making An Even Bigger Dfference](https://www.peaceparks.org/proud-tracker-graduates-dream-of-making-an-even-bigger-dfference/) - Since inception, SA College for Tourism Tracker Academy has graduated 74 trackers, 67 of whom are permanently employed in southern Africa's conservation industry. This is a deployment success rate of 91%. Training is ongoing in both training campuses at Samara and Londolozi game reserves. Graduates accumulate some 1000 hours of practical tracking experience during the year’s course. The trainers at the Tracker Academy pride themselves on preparing students to track and find animals in varying types of terrain, a rare skill known as "Animal Trailing" - expertise desperately lacking in many wildlife protection organisations in Africa.
- [Southern African Wildlife College accredited as private provider of higher education](https://www.peaceparks.org/southern-african-wildlife-college-accredited-as-private-provider-of-higher-education/) - The Southern African Wildlife College has just received its provisional registration as a private provider of higher education. This follows on a site visit earlier this year by the South African Higher Education Quality Committee of the Council on Higher Education, which is responsible for the accreditation of higher education training programmes.
- [Desert Knights](https://www.peaceparks.org/desert-knights/) - From 9 – 14 October 2011, representatives from the /Ai/Ais-Richtersveld Transfrontier Park, Namibia Wildlife Resorts, South African National Parks, Boundless Southern Africa and Peace Parks Foundation, along with tour operators, explored potential routes for the planned Desert Knights Tour.
- [SA College for Tourism 10th anniversary](https://www.peaceparks.org/sa-college-for-tourism-10th-anniversary/) - Excitement and anxiety fills the air as the SA College for Tourism enters its final quarter for 2011. Students are preparing for their final examinations and discussing their plans, hopes and dreams for the future. This is always a memorable time of year, both for the students who are eager to test out their new skills in the hospitality world, as well as the trainers, preparing themselves for that day when they must say goodbye to the students who have become such an integral part of their lives.
- [Limpopo National Park 4x4 campsites](https://www.peaceparks.org/limpopo-national-park-4x4-campsites/) - The Mozambican Government has identified the development of Limpopo National Park, which is part of the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park, as a high priority to attain conservation objectives and increase tourism to the region.
- [Limpopo National Park irrigation schemes](https://www.peaceparks.org/limpopo-national-park-irrigation-schemes/) - Limpopo National Park is the 1 million hectare Mozambican component of the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park. When the Park was proclaimed in 2001, a buffer zone was included along the Limpopo River. At the time, the boundary for the buffer zone was realigned to ensure that the 25 000 people living along the Limpopo River would have adequate space for their resource utilisation needs.
- [SA College for Tourism 10th anniversary and graduation celebrations](https://www.peaceparks.org/sa-college-for-tourism-10th-anniversary-and-graduation-celebrations/) - On Friday, 18 November 2011, 89 women from South Africa and seven from countries in the region graduated at the SA College for Tourism with a Certificate in Small Accommodation Establishment Operations, conferred by the School of Tourism, Hospitality & Sport of the Central University of Technology. The women were joined by 16 young men, the first graduates of the Tracker Academy, a training division of the College, which was established in 2010 with the view of providing training in the art of tracking animals in the wild, an indigenous skill in danger of becoming lost for future generations.
- [Southern African Wildlife College graduation ceremony](https://www.peaceparks.org/southern-african-wildlife-college-graduation-ceremony-2/) - This year’s graduation at the Southern African Wildlife College, which took place on 1 December, was both a jubilant and thought-provoking occasion. Not only did it coincide with the COP17 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Durban but the central theme focused on wildlife guardianship and the current rhino poaching crisis.
- [Tailor-made training for frontline staff](https://www.peaceparks.org/tailor-made-training-for-frontline-staff/) - Eighteen staff members from three key institutions in the /Ai/Ais-Richtersveld Transfrontier Park attended a pioneering training course from 5 – 9 December 2011. The participants were drawn from the Namibian Ministry of Environment and Tourism, Namibia Wildlife Resorts and South African National Parks.
- [Chibotane Community Nursery](https://www.peaceparks.org/chibotane-community-nursery/) - One of the reasons for establishing Limpopo National Park was the socio-economic benefit that the tourism development of the park could hold for local communities. The Park’s management plan therefore provides for the participation of local communities in the development and management of the Park and ensures the equitable flow of benefits to the communities.
- [Supporting victims of Cyclone Kenneth in Mozambique](https://www.peaceparks.org/cyclonekenneth/) - A group of 15 rangers have been deployed from Limpopo and Zinave national parks, as well Maputo Special Reserve, to aid those affected by Cyclone Kenneth in Mozambique's Quirimbas region.
- [Sustainable conservation in the hands of the youth](https://www.peaceparks.org/yea/) - Learners from Mozambique, South Africa and The Kingdom of eSwatini recently crossed borders to engage in shared environmental awareness and conservation-themed learning activities such as nature walks, game drives, workshops, lessons, storytelling, cultural exchanges, career guidance sessions and education through play.
- [Large carnivore research in Limpopo National Park](https://www.peaceparks.org/large-carnivore-research-in-limpopo-national-park/) - For the past six months biologists Kristoffer and Leah Everatt, from the Centre of Wildlife Management at the University of Pretoria have been investigating the status of carnivore populations in Limpopo National Park. This three year study is the first scientific investigation of large carnivore status and distribution in the Mozambican component of the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park.
- [KAZA TFCA launched by five partner countries](https://www.peaceparks.org/kaza-tfca-launched-by-five-partner-countries/) - On 15 March 2012 the Ministers responsible for environment, wildlife, natural resources, hotels and tourism of the Republics of Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe hosted various stakeholders in the town of Katima Mulilo, Namibia to celebrate the official launch of the Kavango Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA TFCA). The TFCA was formally established on 18th August 2011 when at the SADC Summit in Luanda, Angola, the Presidents of the Republics of Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe signed the KAZA Treaty. The KAZA Treaty was unveiled to the stakeholders during the official launch in Katima Mulilo, Namibia where the concept of the KAZA TFCA was initially mooted in July 2003.
- [The Anton Rupert Award for Lifetime Achievement in Conservation presented to Dr Ian Player](https://www.peaceparks.org/the-anton-rupert-award-for-lifetime-achievement-in-conservation-presented-to-dr-ian-player/) - On 5 April 2012, the inaugural Anton Rupert Award for Lifetime Achievement in Conservation was presented to Dr Ian Player by Mr Werner Myburgh, Peace Parks Foundation CEO, and Dr Frank Raimondo, member of the Peace Parks Foundation Board of Directors. By handing him the Award, Peace Parks Foundation and the Rupert Family gratefully applaud and pay tribute to the exceptional contribution Dr Ian Player has made to conservation and the environment.
- [Sustainable management of the Nyika TFCA](https://www.peaceparks.org/sustainable-management-of-the-nyika-tfca/) - Earlier this year the World Bank announced that all conditions had been met for it to release a Global Environmental Facility Trust Fund Grant to the value of $4.82 million to develop the Nyika TFCA between Malawi and Zambia. In addition, co-financing commitments have been secured from the Norwegian Embassy in Malawi, the governments of Malawi and Zambia, and Peace Parks Foundation for a total amount of $11.09 million over the next five years.
- [Norway Grant Agreement for Nyika TFCA signed](https://www.peaceparks.org/norway-grant-agreement-for-nyika-tfca-signed/) - Following on an earlier report regarding the funding secured for the Nyika TFCA involving Malawi and Zambia, the Norway Grant Agreement was signed on 16 May 2012.
- [IVth International Wildlife Management Congress to be held in Durban, South Africa from 9 - 12 July 2012](https://www.peaceparks.org/ivth-international-wildlife-management-congress-to-be-held-in-durban-south-africa-from-9-12-july-2012/) - The Wildlife Society, in partnership with the Wildlife and Environmental Society of South Africa, South African National Parks, and Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife will be hosting the IVth International Wildlife Management Congress at the Nkosi Albert Luthuli International Convention Center, Durban, South Africa from 9-12 July 2012.
- [Training unemployed youth as conservation general assistants and field rangers](https://www.peaceparks.org/training-unemployed-youth-as-conservation-general-assistants-and-field-rangers/) - The South African Deputy Minister of Rural Development and Land Reform, Mr Lechesa Tsenoli, visited the Southern African Wildlife College to celebrate National Youth Day on 16 June and to meet with unemployed youth from all over South Africa who are currently being trained as conservation general assistants and field rangers at the Wildlife College.
- [BirdlifeSA supports the SA College for Tourism Tracker Academy](https://www.peaceparks.org/birdlifesa-supports-the-sa-college-for-tourism-tracker-academy/) - In 2011 BirdlifeSA sponsored two raptor courses for the Tracker Academy students. As eagles and vultures are some of the most charismatic birds, and the fact that the students will be asked to explain the behaviour of eagles in their careers, it was felt that the raptor course would be of greatest value.
- [Bettering the education prospects at Mwandi School](https://www.peaceparks.org/bettering-the-education-prospects-at-mwandi-school/) - Given the importance of education, the Zambian government and the traditional authority had identified a number of schools which needed to be upgraded and expanded. One such school was the Mwandi High School in the Simalaha Community Conservancy that caters for orphans and vulnerable children.
- [Dogs secured, turtles protected](https://www.peaceparks.org/dogs-secured-turtles-protected/) - A team comprising staff from Ponta do Ouro Partial Marine Reserve and Saving the Survivors have engaged in a joint operation to capture 12 seemingly stray dogs that had been posing a threat to the safety of wildlife and visitors to the beaches along Ponta do Ouro and the Cape of Santa Maria.
- [Explore the Limpopo National Park from its first luxury camp](https://www.peaceparks.org/explore-the-limpopo-national-park-from-its-first-luxury-camp/) - The Machampane River is the only river in the Limpopo National Park (LNP) that originates in the Park. It meanders through a true wilderness area in the LNP and ends in the Olifants River. It is along this river that one of the LNP`s first tourism products was built to kick-start tourism development in the Park.
- [Mozambicans pledge their land to wildlife park in exchange for infrastructure and social services](https://www.peaceparks.org/mozambicans-pledge-their-land-to-wildlife-park-in-exchange-for-infrastructure-and-social-services/) - Impoverished villagers living next to the Kruger National Park in rural Mozambique have pledged 53 000ha of their land for conservation, providing a shot in the arm for South Africa's ambitious cross-border "peace park" initiative.
- [Bodies unite in highland development pact](https://www.peaceparks.org/bodies-unite-in-highland-development-pact/) - THE mighty Maloti-Drakensberg Transfrontier project received a shot in the arm this week when several parties were signatory to a memorandum of agreement, which will ensure the natural and cultural heritage of this internationally recognised area remains intact and is utilised for maximum benefit.
- [Limpopo National Park head office almost completed](https://www.peaceparks.org/limpopo-national-park-head-office-almost-completed/) - The first of the Limpopo National Park senior managers has moved into the recently completed staff housing in the Mozambican park. There are five units of which one is a family unit and the others are four single quarters that can accommodate two people each.
- [Transfrontier park will make old dream a reality](https://www.peaceparks.org/transfrontier-park-will-make-old-dream-a-reality/) - Environment ministers of the three countries signed a memorandum of understanding towards creation of the Limpopo-Shashe Transfrontier Conservation Area.
- [European zoos to help restock african reserves](https://www.peaceparks.org/european-zoos-to-help-restock-african-reserves/) - During the past few centuries, culminating in the Victorian era of the late 19th century, European obsession with exotic wildlife saw thousands of animals from Africa being transferred to the zoos of the northern hemisphere. Now some of the descendants of those animals are helping to save the original populations from possible extinction. One such
- [Wildlife College brings mobile library service to the community](https://www.peaceparks.org/wildlife-college-brings-mobile-library-service-to-the-community/) - With the assistance of Biblionef, a book donation agency, the Southern African Wildlife College has started a mobile library service for primary schools in the surrounding community. The programme forms part of the Wildlife College’s community outreach programme and is aimed at providing access to reading materials.
- [Eco-School Leavers graduate at Wildlife College](https://www.peaceparks.org/eco-school-leavers-graduate-at-wildlife-college/) - Pictured with some of the conservation and environmental education bridging course students who graduated are from left are: Mr Jimmy Banda (Old Mutual); Mr Anthony Nicklin from the Hans Hoheisen Charitable Trust (Managed by BoE Clients); and on the right Mrs Sue Brand; Mr Pieter Brand and Mr Jannie Kriel (back) all of whom represented Old Mutual.
- [Search and Rescue Training in the /Ai/Ais-Richtersveld](https://www.peaceparks.org/search-and-rescue-training-in-the-ai-ais-richtersveld/) - The /Ai/Ais-Richtersveld Transfrontier Park (ARTP) recently entered yet another unchartered territory. From the 29th of July to the 3rd of August 2012, nine staff members from ARTP partner agencies - Namibian Ministry of Environment and Tourism (MET), Namibia Wildlife Resorts (NWR) and South African National Parks (SANParks) participated in intensive emergency medical aid and rescue training at the Ai-Ais Resort in Namibia. The training was offered by two highly experienced rescue practitioners from Western Cape Metro Rescue’s West Coast Region, Morne Basson and Charl Nieuwoudt.
- [Sani Pass to be tarred](https://www.peaceparks.org/sani-pass-to-be-tarred/) - The face of one KwaZulu- Natal's tourism icons will be irrevocably changed when Sani Pass is tarred by 2009. A public meeting at Sani Pass Hotel yesterday was informed that the project to resurface and re-align the access road and the pass will commence this year and will cost an estimated R160 million.
- [Red hot Richtersveld](https://www.peaceparks.org/red-hot-richtersveld/) - There are moments of pure magic in life that are frozen forever in our minds. Our arrival at the new Tatasberg Wilderness Camp in the Richtersveld joined that most prized collection of memories.
- [Lost Kingdom's route launched](https://www.peaceparks.org/lost-kingdoms-route-launched/) - The Mapungubwe Cultural Heritage Site in Limpopo is set to become a major component of one of Africa`s most spectacular tourism experiences.
- [Prof Willem van Riet's visit to Limpopo National Park](https://www.peaceparks.org/prof-willem-van-riets-visit-to-limpopo-national-park/) - Prof Willem van Riet, CEO of Peace Parks Foundation, Mr Louis van Rensburg, Project Management Consultant, and Dr Frank Raimondo, Director of Peace Parks Foundation visited Limpopo National Park in Mozambique from 19 - 21 March 2006 to see the progress made in the infrastructural development of the park.
- [SADC univisa by 2008](https://www.peaceparks.org/sadc-univisa-by-2008/) - We also foresee a considerable liberalisation of travel routes between countries on the African continent in the near future. With, amongst others, World Cup 2010 and the transfrontier parks in mind, a single "univisa" for the member states of the Southern Africa Development Community should be in place by 2008.
- [Revolutionary conservation area on track](https://www.peaceparks.org/revolutionary-conservation-area-on-track/) - THE first steps to establishing the much-vaunted Maloti-Drakensberg Transfrontier conservation area were taken yesterday with the signing of a precedent-setting memorandum of agreement.
- [Camp on the banks of the Massingir Dam and enjoy the Limpopo Park](https://www.peaceparks.org/camp-on-the-banks-of-the-massingir-dam-and-enjoy-the-limpopo-park/) - If you need a place to stay when travelling between South Africa and Mozambique, having used the Giriyondo border post on Kruger's eastern border, you may want to consider overnighting at the Campismo Aguia Pesqueira.
- [2012 Desert Knights - Register Now!](https://www.peaceparks.org/2012-desert-knights-register-now/) - Only 100 riders will be allowed, so register now!
- [Limpopo National Park celebrates World Ranger Day and rewards field rangers](https://www.peaceparks.org/limpopo-national-park-celebrates-world-ranger-day-and-rewards-field-rangers/) - Since 1992, World Ranger Day has been celebrated around the world each year on July 31st, the anniversary of the founding of the International Ranger Federation (IRF). The day celebrates the work of field rangers as the key protectors of parks and conservation.
- [SA College for Tourism wins BHP Billiton Achiever Award](https://www.peaceparks.org/sa-college-for-tourism-wins-bhp-billiton-achiever-award/) - On 26 July 2012, the SA College for Tourism won the prestigious BHP Billiton Achiever Award in the category Best Training Programme: Tourism.
- [Developing Maputo Special Reserve as a tourist destination](https://www.peaceparks.org/developing-maputo-special-reserve-as-a-tourist-destination/) - A ceremony to celebrate the 2012 translocation of wildlife from game reserves in South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province to Mozambique’s Maputo Special Reserve was held on 10 September 2012.
- [2012 Fish River clean up](https://www.peaceparks.org/2012-fish-river-clean-up/) - The annual Fish River Canyon hiking trail season starts on the 1stof May and ends on the 15th of September. It is an extremely popular trail and, as people from all over the world book for it, it is usually fully booked for the season.
- [Masego community links in with Greater Mapungubwe TFCA](https://www.peaceparks.org/masego-community-links-in-with-greater-mapungubwe-tfca/) - The Masego community in Botswana, by way of the traditional leadership represented by the Dikgosi from the three villages, together with the village development committees and an interim committee, has decided to develop the land they live on into a conservation area, the Masego Community Conservation Area.
- [Transfrontier park provides further training](https://www.peaceparks.org/transfrontier-park-provides-further-training/) - Building on the success of the mountain rescue training and GIS training provided earlier this year, staff members of the /Ai/Ais-Richtersveld Transfrontier Park's partner institutions i.e. the Namibian Ministry of Environment and Tourism (MET), Namibia Wildlife Resorts (NWR) and South African National Parks (SANParks) received further training during September and October 2012.
- [Major events in the Zambian component of the Kavango Zambezi (KAZA) TFCA](https://www.peaceparks.org/major-events-in-the-zambian-component-of-the-kavango-zambezi-kaza-tfca/) - Minister Sylvia T. Masebo and Mr Werner Myburgh shake hands at the Ngonye Falls Community Partnership Park Visitors Information Centre, sponsored by the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Peace Parks Foundation.
- [SA College for Tourism wins two prestigious awards](https://www.peaceparks.org/sa-college-for-tourism-wins-two-prestigious-awards/) - On 1 November 2012 the SA College for Tourism won the Mail & Guardian Investing in the Future Education Award. This award is bestowed on projects and initiatives that demonstrate a company or organisation’s commitment to addressing the huge educational challenges facing South Africa, including outreach/ engagement in the area of basic and higher education.
- [Assisting the Lillydale Home Care Centre](https://www.peaceparks.org/assisting-the-lillydale-home-care-centre/) - On the 2nd of October 2012 the TFCA Unit of the South African Department of Environmental Affairs, in collaboration with Peace Parks Foundation, assisted an underprivileged community living on the western boundary of the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park.
- [Custodians of the future](https://www.peaceparks.org/custodians-of-the-future/) - Children in the Wilderness is an environmental and life skills educational programme for children focusing on the next generation of decision makers: inspiring them to care for their natural heritage and to become the custodians of these areas in the future. Children in the Wilderness Limpopo Valley aims to include all children living in and around the Greater Mapungubwe TFCA, where the Tour de Tuli operates every August.
- [Crowning a successful year](https://www.peaceparks.org/crowning-a-successful-year/) - On Friday, 16 November 2012, 90 young women and 16 young men from across southern Africa graduated at the SA College for Tourism in Graaff-Reinet.
- [Prof Jakes Gerwel, vice-chairman of Peace Parks Foundation](https://www.peaceparks.org/prof-jakes-gerwel-vice-chairman-of-peace-parks-foundation/) - Peace Parks Foundation deeply regrets losing its vice-chairman, Prof. Jakes Gerwel, who passed away early on Wednesday morning, the 28th of November 2012, following a short illness.
- [Southern African Wildlife College 15-year Review](https://www.peaceparks.org/southern-african-wildlife-college-15-year-review/) - The 2011 Annual Review of the Southern African Wildlife College, marking its 15 years in existence, is attached.
- [2012 Wildlife College graduates challenged to find solutions](https://www.peaceparks.org/2012-wildlife-college-graduates-challenged-to-find-solutions/) - With the graduation of its 2012 certificate course students, the Southern African Wildlife College this year celebrated 15 years of developing protected area management expertise across the southern African region and beyond.
- [Macquarie Munich Team use their feet to raise funds for Peace Parks Foundation](https://www.peaceparks.org/macquarie-munich-team-use-their-feet-to-raise-funds-for-peace-parks-foundation/) - On 14 October 2012, an enthusiastic group of runners from the *Macquarie Group in Munich, Germany raised awareness of, and funding for Peace Parks Foundation.
- [Milibangalala the turtle finds a new home in the Dennegeur crèche](https://www.peaceparks.org/milibangalala-the-turtle-finds-a-new-home-in-the-dennegeur-creche/) - More than 30 children between ages of three and six walked into the room and saw a 2-metre long leatherback turtle lying on the floor. They shouted “Skilpad!, turtle or tortoise in Afrikaans and could not comprehend the sheer size of the creature made out of chicken wire and papier mâché.
- [Turtle monitoring season](https://www.peaceparks.org/turtle-monitoring-season/) - The 2012 turtle monitoring season in Mozambique started on 1 October and will continue until April 2013. Throughout the season, Reserve management and turtle monitors undertake vehicle and foot patrols of the turtle nesting sites, the primary goal being to protect the nesting females and their eggs and also to monitor the number coming ashore to nest. Mozambique’s proclamation, in 2009, of the Ponta do Ouro Partial Marine Reserve, which adjoins iSimangaliso Wetland Park, a World Heritage Site, realised Africa’s first marine transfrontier conservation area, the Ponta do Ouro-Kosi Bay TFCA, which is part of the larger Lubombo TFCA.
- [Victory for conservation and ecotourism as three Presidents open Giriyondo Access Facility](https://www.peaceparks.org/victory-for-conservation-and-ecotourism-as-three-presidents-open-giriyondo-access-facility/) - The Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park's (GLTP) Giriyondo Tourist Access Facility was officially opened by Presidents, Armando Guebuza of Mozambique, Thabo Mbeki of South Africa and Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe on Wednesday, 16 August 2006. The Access Facility is a link between Limpopo National Park in Mozambique and the Kruger National Park in South Africa. During
- [A new frontier](https://www.peaceparks.org/a-new-frontier/) - The environmental advantages of transfrontier parks are obvious. Surely nature can only gain from the removal of fences that keep animals apart and cut through ecosystems. It is just so much better for the health of wildlife that species are able to roam more freely and for habitats to be managed in an integrated way.
- [Cheetahs once again explore our wetlands](https://www.peaceparks.org/cheetahs-once-again-explore-our-wetlands/) - For the first time in a century, cheetahs are roaming in one of our World Heritage Sites! Environment Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk released two of four cheetahs into the Umkhuze section of the Greater St Lucia Wetland Park in KwaZulu- Natal last Friday. "Cheetahs were shot as vermin by cattle farmers," said ministry spokesman Riaan
- [A bridge to a better life](https://www.peaceparks.org/a-bridge-to-a-better-life/) - While many residents of the rural area surrounding the Greater St Lucia Wetland Park say they have not derived the anticipated benefits associated with tourism, the Minister for Environmental Affairs and Tourism believes a new bridge in the area could help change this. Speaking at the recent opening ceremony for the Ophansi bridge over the
- [Zimbabwe Tourism works on cross-border initiatives](https://www.peaceparks.org/zimbabwe-tourism-works-on-cross-border-initiatives/) - The Zimbabwe Tourism Authority is working closely with neighbouring countries such as South Africa, Botswana and Mozambique to develop its transfrontier parks in the run-up to the 2010 World Cup. Among those currently being formalised are the Kavango Zambezi, Great Limpopo and Zimoza Transfrontier Parks, says the ZTA‘s Ndapaneyi Mukwena. Work is also under way
- [New SA route for Namibian tourists](https://www.peaceparks.org/new-sa-route-for-namibian-tourists/) - The government plans to develop an additional access route for the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park between South Africa and Namibia ahead of the 2010 Worid Cup. Yesterday, Tourism Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk announced the planned opening of the Mata Mata gate next year and a bonier post with Namibia. He was visiting the Twee Rivieren camp
- [Money pours into tourism](https://www.peaceparks.org/money-pours-into-tourism/) - Recognising Mozambique as an emerging serious contender in the global tourism sector, local and overseas investors are directing funds at several tourism projects throughout the country. The Mozambican Ministry of Tourism has announced that Rl,86bn could be secured to invest in the country's northern region this year. The money, it says, will be invested in
- [Coast-to-coast parks plan for 2010 tourisis](https://www.peaceparks.org/coast-to-coast-parks-plan-for-2010-tourisis/) - Travelling from coast to coast in national and transfrontier parks is what visitors to South Africa for the 2010 soccer World Cup can look forward to. This tourist plan was announced by environmental affairs and tourism minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk at the 75th anniversary celebrations of the former Kalahari Gemsbok Park in the Northern Cape.
- [Sable antelope back](https://www.peaceparks.org/sable-antelope-back/) - The four sable antelope that were released in the Mapungubwe National Park in Limpopo at the beginning of June are adapting well, says Dr Hamish Currie of Back to Africa. The organisation imported 10 rare sable antelope from three European zoos and formed a breeding group, so they could once more roam Mapungubwe, for the
- [Namibia and Angola join forces to create parks](https://www.peaceparks.org/namibia-and-angola-join-forces-to-create-parks/) - NAMIBIA and Angola have moved towards the creation of a joint trans-border conservation area, reports The NamibIan, Windhoek. Angolan news agency Angop reports the Angolan cabinet council recently ratified the memorandum of understanding for the creation of the 31 540km2 Iona-Skeleton Coast Transfrontier Park it signed with Namibia on August 1, 2003. Namibia ratified the
- [Adopt-a-Student](https://www.peaceparks.org/adopt-a-student/) - Peace parks are vital to the conservation of biodiversity in southern Africa. The preservation of our natural resources is crucial to the maintenance and growth of the region's tourism industry and as a result of that, sustainable economic development. In order to ensure that peace parks would have the necessary trained personnel to cater to
- [Hans Hoheisen research facility relaunched](https://www.peaceparks.org/hans-hoheisen-research-facility-relaunched/) - Settling of provincial boundaries helps stimulate research facility It appears that the long-neglected Hans Hoheisen research facility near Open Gate to the Kruger National Park (KNP) will soon be able to fulfil its initial purpose of stimulating wildlife research in the lowveld. After a promising start in the early 1980s, the facility fell into disuse
- [Kavango-Zambezi TFCA's MoU signed](https://www.peaceparks.org/kavango-zambezi-tfcas-mou-signed/) - Conservation & Tourism for Socio-Economic Development The cornerstone for Africa's largest transfrontier conservation area (TFCA), the Kavango Zambezi TFCA was laid today with the signing of a memorandum of understanding by the five participating countries to jointly work towards the establishment of the TFCA. The Minister of Hotels and Tourism of Angola, Mr Eduardo Jonatao
- [Wild Africa](https://www.peaceparks.org/wild-africa/) - Bush Journal - From individuals who travel and dedicate their lives to Wild Africa... This year in September, South African National Parks (SANParks) celebrated the 75th anniversary of the proclamation of the Kalahari Gemsbok National Park. Hats off to the management of that time and congratulations to the current management! Today the park is joined
- [First-hand experience in Kruger](https://www.peaceparks.org/first-hand-experience-in-kruger/) - The close proximity of the South African Wildlife College (SAWC) to the Kruger National Park (KNP) provides excellent opportunities for practical excursions for the students. It also allows for meeting specialist conservation staff such as section rangers, and KNP scientists and learning from their experiences or sharing ideas. In the last half of 2006 the
- [Transfrontier park will ease pressure on the environment](https://www.peaceparks.org/transfrontier-park-will-ease-pressure-on-the-environment/) - BY far the majority of Botswana's mighty elephant herds are concentrated in the northern region of the country, where their impact on the environment has become all too visible. Like South Africa, the country suspended culling in the 90s. But at least it has relief beckoning in the form of an immense transfrontier conservation area
- [LNP tourism facilities](https://www.peaceparks.org/lnp-tourism-facilities/) - Transfrontier Trails do Limpopo The pristine wilderness area of Limpopo National Park has, since 2005 offered tourists the possibility of participating in 4x4 eco-trails and of enjoying the tranquillity and seclusion by staying in the park.
- [New Kgalagadi luxury lodge](https://www.peaceparks.org/new-kgalagadi-luxury-lodge/) - South Africa's 'First People' enter the international tourism arena Opening in July 2007 !Xaus Lodge, owned by the Khomani San (Bushmen) and Mier communities, is the first fully catered luxury lodge to be located in the Kgalagadi (Kalahari) Transfrontier Park. This 3,9 million hectare transfrontier park transcends the border between the Northern Cape Province of
- [President Pohamba an Honorary Patron](https://www.peaceparks.org/president-pohamba-an-honorary-patron/) - His Excellency Hifikepunye Pohamba, the President of the Republic of Namibia, has honoured Peace Parks Foundation by agreeing to become an honorary patron of the Foundation. Namibia is partner to the /Ai /Ais-Richtersveld Transfrontier Park, the Iona/Skeleton Coast TFCA and the Kavango Zambezi TFCA. It will soon also become a partner to the Kgalagadi Transfrontier
- [/Ai /Ais-Richtersveld](https://www.peaceparks.org/ai-ais-richtersveld/) - Progress Report: 2007 On 16 October 2007, Namibia and South Africa's Ministers for Home Affairs opened the Sendelingsdrift Tourist Access Facility, thus enabling tourists and local communities to travel between Namibia and South Africa through the Transfrontier Park. On the same day, the ministers for the Environment from the two countries officially commissioned the restored
- [New name for SA's first World Heritage Site](https://www.peaceparks.org/new-name-for-sas-first-world-heritage-site/) - New name for SA's first World Heritage Site South Africa's first World Heritage Site, the Greater St Lucia Wetland Park, has a new name that better reflects its unique identity and sense of place. After an extensive consultation process, the name has been approved by the National Cabinet and was gazetted on Friday 11th May
- [Hunters raise cash to train conservationists](https://www.peaceparks.org/hunters-raise-cash-to-train-conservationists/) - Hunting and nature conservation are getting together. The Professional Hunters` Association (PHASA) has launched a project to train experts to work in conservation privately and in government. President Stewart Dorrington says well-trained wildlife managers in the private and public sector are essential to preserving South Africa`s wildlife heritage. "PHASA wants to ensure that our country
- [College receives Environment Educator Award](https://www.peaceparks.org/college-receives-environment-educator-award/) - On 22 May 2007 the Southern African Wildlife College near Hoedspruit received a Kudu Award from South African National Parks (SANParks). The Kudu Awards is an initiative by SANParks that aims to recognise external stakeholders for their contribution and efforts in making South African National Parks the custodian of choice for the national parks system
- [South Africa gets 8th World Heritage Site](https://www.peaceparks.org/south-africa-gets-8th-world-heritage-site/) - The Richtersveld Cultural and Botanical Landscape STATEMENT BY THE OFFICE OF MARTHINUS VAN SCHALKWYK, MINISTER OF ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS AND TOURISM, THURSDAY 28 JUNE 2007 SOUTH AFRICA GETS 8TH WORLD HERITAGE SITE "I am proud to announce that yesterday, at the 31st session of the World Heritage Committee that is being held in Christchurch, New Zealand,
- [DaimlerChrysler donates fourth vehicle](https://www.peaceparks.org/daimlerchrysler-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.
- [Africa plans largest game park](https://www.peaceparks.org/africa-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, Zambia and Zimbabwe. It is hoped the park will bring in tourists to such attractions as the Victoria Falls, Okavango swamps, Chobe National Park
- [DaimlerChrysler Automotive Academy](https://www.peaceparks.org/daimlerchrysler-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 surrounding Kruger National Park in South Africa, which is part of the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park.
- [Makuleke Wetlands declared a Ramsar Site](https://www.peaceparks.org/makuleke-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 the northern Kruger National Park. The Makuleke Wetlands are part of the 24 000ha private Makuleke Concession in which Wilderness Safaris' Pafuri Camp lies.
- [France funds rehabilitation of Limpopo national Park](https://www.peaceparks.org/france-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 has pledged €11,5million to finance a highway between Mapai and Massingir. The Limpopo National Park management said the participation of the French state development agency would strengthen the capacity
- [Opening borders to ease cross-border tourism](https://www.peaceparks.org/opening-borders-to-ease-cross-border-tourism/) - Opening borders to ease cross-border tourism and strengthen regional cooperation Presidents Festus Mogae of Botswana, Hifikepunye Pohamba of Namibia and Thabo Mbeki of South Africa today officially opened the Mata-Mata Tourist Access Facility between South Africa and Namibia within the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park (TFP). On this day seven years and five months ago the Presidents
- [Massive Swazi/Jozini resort](https://www.peaceparks.org/massive-swazi-jozini-resort/) - Construction on arguably the largest tourism resort and property development yet in the small landlocked kingdom of Swaziland began last week, with KwaZulu-Natal developer - the eLan Group - driving the multi-billion rand project jointly with Swazi-based Lubombo Development and Management Limited. Dubbed Royal Jozini Big Six, the project is the brainchild of Jim Brown
- [Ancient rulers' remains to return to royal graves](https://www.peaceparks.org/ancient-rulers-remains-to-return-to-royal-graves/) - The Mapungubwe people will be officially recognised tomorrow as descendants of the iron-smelting warriors and gold merchants who lived near modern-day Musina over 1000 years ago. A ceremony will be held to symbolically hand over the remains of the ancient rulers who were buried in royal graves on Mapungubwe Hill, at the confluence of the
- [Wildlife restocking programme](https://www.peaceparks.org/wildlife-restocking-programme/) - The first step toward establishing the Malawi/Zambia Transfrontier Conservation Area (TFCA) was taken by the respective Ministers of the Environment on 13 August 2004, when they signed a Memorandum of Understanding in the misty hills of the Nyika National Park. Peace Parks Foundation was requested by the partner countries to act as facilitator for the
- ['Wild women' will keep the peace](https://www.peaceparks.org/wild-women-will-keep-the-peace/) - Ready for jobs in the wild, 87 young women from nine Southern African countries have just graduated from the SA College for Tourism in Graaft-Reinet. They have undergone intensive training in environmental tourism for jobs at game parks. "The programme increases the numbers of skilled women working in parks the college is associated with through
- [Mozambique woos tourists](https://www.peaceparks.org/mozambique-woos-tourists/) - 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 and tents with no showers. The government said it would put out tenders soon for hotel building inside the Maputo special reserve
- [Limpopo now offer the bush and the beach](https://www.peaceparks.org/limpopo-now-offer-the-bush-and-the-beach/) - See the most majestic land mammals in Limpopo today and dive with the biggest fish tomorrow. That's the new dimension tourism in Limpopo has gained with the opening of an internet-linked route connecting the province's premier wildlife reserves and Mozambique's pristine coast. The new Bush to Beach route offering tourists the best of both worlds
- [Mandela honoured for protecting the environment](https://www.peaceparks.org/mandela-honoured-for-protecting-the-environment/) - Former president Nelson Mandela was yesterday honoured for his role as a statesman and in promoting environmental care when council members of the World Conservation Union (IUCN) handed him a copy of the latest Red Data List of endangered species. The presentation was done at the Nelson Mandela Foundation offices in Johannesburg by Valli Moosa,
- [Transfrontier park poachers nabbed](https://www.peaceparks.org/transfrontier-park-poachers-nabbed/) - The fences might be down, but the incident is being cited as an example of how security has actually been improved A joint operation between Kruger National Park rangers and Mozambican police has led to the arrest of two notorious rhino poachers, and the success of their co-operation is being held up as an example
- [Transfrontier park bountiful](https://www.peaceparks.org/transfrontier-park-bountiful/) - The southern African Transfrontier Park initiative is bearing fruit particularly as far as endangered roan and sable antelope are concerned. These relocated species have adapted well to the new environment. Since being moved to the Mozambican side of the park the small sable population has grown to where it now numbers over 40 in two
- [Long walk to freedom as elephants trek to Angola](https://www.peaceparks.org/long-walk-to-freedom-as-elephants-trek-to-angola/) - A feisty cow leads her herd 180km north, giving hope to conservationists that Botswana's overpopulation problems might ease. An elephant cow named Lersatsi could hardly have known how she was serving the wellbeing of her species and benefiting conservation when she recently took her herd on a long walk from Botswana's Okavango Delta into south-eastern
- [Monitoring project now under way](https://www.peaceparks.org/monitoring-project-now-under-way/) - MOZAMBIQUE has, in the past, been somewhat of a weak link in the turtle protection chain. It's hoped this will all change now that a transfrontier turtle monitoring project is in place. Dr Roelie Kloppers, project coordinator for the Lubombo Transfrontier Conservation Area, said data is currently being collected for the entire Maputaland coastline, from
- [Transfrontier game reserves to share out 2010 benefits](https://www.peaceparks.org/transfrontier-game-reserves-to-share-out-2010-benefits/) - New life is being breathed into the imaginative initiative that aims to see parts of southern Africa turned into large networks of parklands spanning national boundaries. The driving force is the 2010 Soccer World Cup. The South African government sees the transfrontier parks as the ideal way of sharing tourism and marketing benefits with the
- [Endangered African wild dogs found a safe haven](https://www.peaceparks.org/endangered-african-wild-dogs-found-a-safe-haven/) - South Africa and Botswana collaborate on translocation A pack of 18 African wild dogs, donated by South African National Parks, was last week translocated from Marakele National Park in Limpopo Province to the Northern Tuli Game Reserve in Botswana. Their reintroduction into the area is meant to facilitate the establishment of a viable population of
- [A new CEO for Peace Parks Foundation](https://www.peaceparks.org/a-new-ceo-for-peace-parks-foundation/) - Mr Werner Myburgh has been appointed as the new CEO of Peace Parks Foundation, as of 1 April 2008. He takes over from Prof Willem van Riet, who retires as CEO but has been appointed as Vice-Chairman: International Relations responsible for fundraising and providing support to specialist projects such as GIS and park planning. Prof
- [R2m grant to up-skill wildlife managers](https://www.peaceparks.org/r2m-grant-to-up-skill-wildlife-managers/) - South Africa's Peace Parks Foundation has received a R2 million grant from the Mitsubishi Corporation Fund for Europe and Africa (MCFEA) to be used for the training of 240 wildlife managers. The students, who will be identified by management at various conservation parks and reserves throughout the Southern Africa, will undergo a 9-12 month natural
- [Wild dogs kept at bay by invisible boundary](https://www.peaceparks.org/wild-dogs-kept-at-bay-by-invisible-boundary/) - A novel experiment to protect endangered wild dogs is using the scent marks of unrelated wild dogs and hundreds of their scats to keep them within the safety of their new home in a Botswana nature reserve. Last week, the 18 wild dogs - nine adults and nine puppies – from the Marakele national park
- [His Majesty King Goodwill Zwelethini visits Peace Parks Foundation](https://www.peaceparks.org/his-majesty-king-goodwill-zwelethini-visits-peace-parks-foundation/) - His Majesty Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekizulu, the reigning king of the Zulu nation and his family honoured Peace Parks Foundation by visiting its offices on Saturday, 19 April 2008. With King Zwelethini are Prof Willem van Riet, on the right, Ms Ziyanda Mfanta of Peace Parks Foundation on the left, and a very dear friend and
- [Breaking barriers](https://www.peaceparks.org/breaking-barriers/) - PEACE PARKS: THE WORLD'S MOST AUDACIOUS ECOTOURISM PROJECT? Southern Africa's transfrontier parks initiative aims to be the world's top nature-based tourism programme IT SPANS nine countries, links two oceans, involves seven transfrontier parks and offers incredible cultural and biodiversity: it's the transfrontier conservation area (TFCA) route. Like most of the subcontinent's initiatives, the development of
- [Meeting with HM Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands](https://www.peaceparks.org/meeting-with-hm-queen-beatrix-of-the-netherlands/) - Peace Parks Foundation officials had the honour to meet with HM Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands on May 12th to brief her on the work of Peace Parks Foundation: the organisation her father Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands together with Dr Nelson Mandela and Dr Anton Rupert founded in 1997. On the photograph CEO of
- [Alexander Forbes supports Peace Parks Foundation](https://www.peaceparks.org/alexander-forbes-supports-peace-parks-foundation/) - On 28 May Werner Myburgh, Peace Parks Foundation CEO received R51 936.00 from Julie Fredericks, Alexander Forbes Risk Services CEO during a brief ceremony at Alexander Forbes' offices in Stellenbosch, South Africa. Julie Fredericks explained that Alexander Forbes Risk Services sponsored 10% of the production costs of a 2008 calendar using images of world famous
- [Shashe irrigation scheme gets boost](https://www.peaceparks.org/shashe-irrigation-scheme-gets-boost/) - Peace Parks Foundation of South Africa yesterday handed over electric fence worth R250 000 to Shashe Irrigation Scheme in Beitbridge district to help deter stray elephants from destroying crops in the fields. The Peace Parks Foundation project manager, Mr Bradley Poole, said his organisation had to source funds following an outcry from local villagers who
- [Limpopo/Shashe renamed Greater Mapungubwe TFCA](https://www.peaceparks.org/limpopo-shashe-renamed-greater-mapungubwe-tfca/) - The Limpopo/Shashe TFCA, shared by Botswana, South Africa and Zimbabwe was today, 19 June, renamed the Greater Mapungubwe Transfrontier Conservation Area. Ministers Kitso Mokaila of Tourism in Botswana, Buyelwa Sonjica of Water and Environmental Affairs in South Africa and Francis Nhema of Tourism in Zimbabwe, announced the new name at the Limpopo and Shashe confluence
- [Veterinary research station to focus on TFCAs](https://www.peaceparks.org/veterinary-research-station-to-focus-on-tfcas/) - On Monday, 22 June 2009 the Mpumalanga Tourism and Parks Agency (MTPA), Peace Parks Foundation and the University of Pretoria signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to develop the Hans Hoheisen Wildlife Research Station (Centre), within the boundaries of the Kruger National Park in the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park. The primary function of the Centre
- [NWR opens Ai-Ais hot springs spa](https://www.peaceparks.org/nwr-opens-ai-ais-hot-springs-spa/) - /Ai /Ais-Richtersveld - Namibia Wildlife Resorts (NWR) has re-opened its newly refurbished and former rest camp Ai-Ais Hot Spring Spa for business as it strategically positions its operations ahead of the 2010 international soccer showcase to be hosted by neighbouring South Africa. The spa complex, nestled in the /Ai /Ais-Richtersveld Transfrontier Park and at the
- [Reuniting the Tembe elephants](https://www.peaceparks.org/reuniting-the-tembe-elephants/) - For decades they suffered the the ravages of war. But now elephants in the border region between Mozambique and KwaZulu Natal can look forward to returning to a relatively normal existence. Their hope lies in the creation of a system of transfrontier conservation areas between SA, Mozambique and Swaziland, which will include the creation of
- [First milestone towards the world's biggest conservation area](https://www.peaceparks.org/first-milestone-towards-the-worlds-biggest-conservation-area/) - On 7 December 2006 the cornerstone for the world's biggest conservation area, the Kavango Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (TFCA) was laid with the signing of a memorandum of understanding by the five participating countries to jointly work towards the establishment of the TFCA. The Kavango Zambezi TFCA is situated in the Okavango and Zambezi river
- [New Honorary Patron](https://www.peaceparks.org/new-honorary-patron/) - His Excellency Lieutenant General Seretse Khama Ian Khama, the President of the Republic of Botswana, has honoured Peace Parks Foundation by agreeing to become an honorary patron of the Foundation. Botswana is partner to Africa's first peace park, the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, as well as the Limpopo/Shashe TFCA and the Kavango Zambezi TFCA, set to
- [New Honorary Patron](https://www.peaceparks.org/new-honorary-patron-2/) - His Excellency Mr Rupiah Bwezani Banda, President of the Republic of Zambia has honoured Peace Parks Foundation by agreeing to become an honorary patron of the Foundation. Zambia is partner to four transfrontier conservation areas (TFCAs): The Kavango Zambezi TFCA, set to become Africa's largest conservation area; the Malawi-Zambia TFCAs; Liuwa Plain-Mussuma TFCA between Angola
- [Happy birthday Madiba!](https://www.peaceparks.org/happy-birthday-madiba/) - Happy birthday to our founding patron, Dr Nelson Mandela and thank you for being our daily inspiration. Dr Nelson Mandela is one of the three founding patrons of Peace Parks Foundation, the other two being the late HRH Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands and the late Dr Anton Rupert. Dr Mandela actively supports the Foundation's
- [Mr Joaquim Chissano a Board Member](https://www.peaceparks.org/mr-joaquim-chissano-a-board-member/) - Mr Joaquim Chissano, former President of the Republic of Mozambique, has honoured Peace Parks Foundation by accepting to become a member of its Board of Directors The development of southern Africa's peace parks can be traced back to the vision that Mr Joaquim Chissano and Dr Anton Rupert shared when they first met in 1990
- [Toyota supports Peace Parks Foundation](https://www.peaceparks.org/toyota-supports-peace-parks-foundation/) - The establishment of transfrontier conservation areas is an exemplary process of partnerships between governments and the private sector. While the main players are the relevant governments and their conservation agencies, donors and NGOs have also greatly contributed towards their creation. TFCAs comprise the area or component of a large ecological region that straddles the boundaries
- [Explore Parque Nacional do Limpopo in your 4x4 and make an impact!](https://www.peaceparks.org/explore-parque-nacional-do-limpopo-in-your-4x4-and-make-an-impact/) - For the first time 4x4 enthusiasts have the opportunity to explore a national park and at the same time participate in a census that will have a meaningful impact on the knowledge base of the Park. Dubbed Census on Safari, the inaugural event takes place in Mozambique's Parque Nacional do Limpopo from Thursday 19 September
- [Two students on their way to Italy](https://www.peaceparks.org/two-students-on-their-way-to-italy/) - Ms Roselyn Kamumvuri from Zimbabwe (second best student) and Ms Kahimbi Kaingu from Zambia (best student) are on their way to Italy for three months. "Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but they don't quit." Quoting the famous American hotelier, Conrad Hilton, Ms Antonette Madi, a Namibian
- [Working with WCS and COMACO](https://www.peaceparks.org/working-with-wcs-and-comaco/) - The Kasungu-Lukusuzi TFCA, which is part of the Malawi/Zambia TFCA comprises two proclaimed national parks: the Lukusuzi National Park in Zambia and the Kasungu National Park in Malawi. Separating the two parks on the Zambian side, is the Mwasemphangwe/Chikomene area, which is 12-25 km wide. In order to secure the free movement of wildlife between
- [Cross-border Cooperation](https://www.peaceparks.org/cross-border-cooperation/) - On Tuesday, 25 November 2008 the Managing Executive of the Kruger National Park, Dr Bandile Mkhize presented Mozambique's Limpopo National Park with a rubber dingy on a loan basis to help with law enforcement in that park. "We are lending this beautiful new boat so that you can help us patrol the upper reaches of
- [Southern African Wildlife College Graduation Ceremony](https://www.peaceparks.org/southern-african-wildlife-college-graduation-ceremony/) - Nine months had passed since an enthusiastic group of park rangers converged at the Southern African Wildlife College from conservation areas stretching from Kenya to the Cape, ready to undertake a Certificate Course in Natural Resource Management. The graduation ceremony for these full time students was held late November with representatives from prominent conservation areas
- [Sperrgebiet proclaimed a national park](https://www.peaceparks.org/sperrgebiet-proclaimed-a-national-park/) - KOLMANSKOP - It was time to open up Namibia's hidden treasures to its entire people, hence, the opening of the Sperrgebiet National Park, over the weekend. Another of Namibia's hidden and forbidden treasures has been opened with the proclamation of the Sperrgebiet National Park (SNP) in the Karas Region. Namibians will now have the opportunity
- [Choosing Life](https://www.peaceparks.org/choosing-life/) - A unique sport for development programme is giving youth from rural communities in Mozambique the opportunity to learn more about the critical symbiosis between man and nature. They are also introduced to the negative impacts that poaching and the illegal trade in animal parts have on the sustainable development of the conservation areas that they live in or adjacent to, and the long-term knock-on effect this could have on socio-economic development in a region that relies heavily on tourism as an income generator.
- [New opportunities for tourism operators in Maputo Special Reserve](https://www.peaceparks.org/new-opportunities-for-tourism-operators-in-maputo-special-reserve/) - Maputo Special Reserve (MSR) and Ponta do Ouro Partial Marine Reserve (PPMR), has announced exciting new opportunities for tourism operators in the region.
- [Enlisting Microsoft Azure In The Fight Against Rhino Poaching](https://www.peaceparks.org/enlisting-microsoft-azure-in-the-fight-against-rhino-poaching-2/) - Peace Parks Foundation shared insights on using technology in the conservation space, with an audience of about 2000 delegates at the 2018 Microsoft Tech Summit in Cape Town
- [Listen to the silence](https://www.peaceparks.org/listen-to-the-silence/) - Have wheels, will travel, says STEVE MOSELEY as he roams the seemingly barren, but not quite spiderless, Richtersveld
- [Giriyondo Access Facility open](https://www.peaceparks.org/giriyondo-access-facility-open/) - The Giriyondo Tourist Access Facility (border post) that links Limpopo National Park in Mozambique and the Kruger National Park in South Africa in the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park (GLTP), will be operational from the 7th of December 2005. This facility will facilitate tourism flow by providing easier access within the GLTP.
- [Statement by Dr Anton Rupert, Chairman and Founder of Peace Parks Foundation](https://www.peaceparks.org/statement-by-dr-anton-rupert-chairman-and-founder-of-peace-parks-foundation/) - Dr Anton Rupert, Chairman and Founder of Peace Parks Foundation, welcomed the announcement that the Giriyondo Access Facility between Mozambique's Limpopo National Park and South Africa's Kruger National Park became operational on 7 December 2005.
- [$20-million boost for conservation](https://www.peaceparks.org/20-million-boost-for-conservation/) - Some $20-million is going to be pumped into three conservation parks in Mozambique, including the Lubombo and GreatLimpopo Transfrontier Parks that extend into South Africa.
- [First tourists make use of Giriyondo](https://www.peaceparks.org/first-tourists-make-use-of-giriyondo/) - More than 100 vehicles and almost 300 keen tourists have already made use of the Giriyondo Tourist Access Facility between the Kruger National Park and Mozambique's Limpopo National Park, even though it only opened last week.
- [Goodbye malaria!](https://www.peaceparks.org/goodbye-malaria/) - THE menace of malaria is succumbing to eradication efforts by the Lubombo Spatial Development Initiative (LSDI).
- [Ban brings eco-tourists](https://www.peaceparks.org/ban-brings-eco-tourists/) - TOURISM to rural coastal areas has increased significantly since the Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism banned the use of four-wheel-drive vehicles on beaches.
- [First map ever of Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park](https://www.peaceparks.org/first-map-ever-of-great-limpopo-transfrontier-park/) - The establishment of Peace Parks Foundation can be traced back to discussions started in 1990 on the establishment of what was to become the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park.
- [Adopt-a-Student Programme](https://www.peaceparks.org/adopt-a-student-programme/) - Peace Parks Foundation has launched the Adopt-A-Student programme in 2005, to help students improve their qualifications, develop their skills, obtain the latest information on natural resource management and adapt new technologies to their work, especially in the use of Geographic Information Systems, through their studies at the Southern African Wildlife College.
- [Mesmerising Zambia](https://www.peaceparks.org/mesmerising-zambia/) - Dr David Livingstone probably thought he was in heaven when he first set eyes on Victoria Falls. Winnie Graham, had a similar experience when she visited the country made famous by the great explorer and says there is much both to see and do there.
- [Extension of Maputo Special Reserve](https://www.peaceparks.org/extension-of-maputo-special-reserve/) - 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.
- [Zimbabwe and SA link national parks](https://www.peaceparks.org/zimbabwe-and-sa-link-national-parks/) - Border to open between Gonarezhou and Kruger National Park
- [Single SADC visa holds big potential](https://www.peaceparks.org/single-sadc-visa-holds-big-potential/) - Not long after plans were announced to introduce a single visa system for Southern Africa, there is talk of a single currency for the region as well.
- [Row over hotels on top of the Berg](https://www.peaceparks.org/row-over-hotels-on-top-of-the-berg/) - PLANS to build a cableway and hotels on top of the Drakensberg have stalled because environmental groups have protested against the development.
- [Kruger National Park is now more accessible](https://www.peaceparks.org/kruger-national-park-is-now-more-accessible/) - Inzalo Exclusive Safari Destinations say that Sefofane Air Charter‘s daily flight connections to all properties in the Lowveld will make the Greater Kruger National Park much more accessible to visitors.
- [The Silence of the Sands](https://www.peaceparks.org/the-silence-of-the-sands/) - The Silence of the Sands
- [A nature park for Koreas' DMZ?](https://www.peaceparks.org/a-nature-park-for-koreas-dmz/) - Media mogul and conservationist Ted Turner wants to turn the heavily fortified Demilitarized Zone that divides the Korean peninsula into a peace park if the two Koreas become unified.
- [Book now for new park](https://www.peaceparks.org/book-now-for-new-park/) - The 3,3-million hectare conservation area - which includes the Limpopo National Park in Mozambique, Kruger National Park in SA and Gonarezhou National Park in Zimbabwe - has yet to be officially opened, but tourists are invited to book now.
- [Making ecotourism accessible and sustainable](https://www.peaceparks.org/making-ecotourism-accessible-and-sustainable/) - Jeff Gaisford of Ezemvelo Wildlife believes the proposed Maloti-Drakensberg Transfrontier National Park will encourage and enhance the ecosystems and biodiversity of the area while also promoting sustained income and awareness among the people on its borders.
- [Unesco director visits Mapungubwe](https://www.peaceparks.org/unesco-director-visits-mapungubwe/) - The director of the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation's World Heritage Centre in Paris, Francesco Bandarin, visited the Mapungubwe National Park and World Heritage Site this week as a guest of South African National Parks (SANParks).
- [New road opens way to Moz](https://www.peaceparks.org/new-road-opens-way-to-moz/) - As part of the Great Limpopo Transfromier Park with Mozambique and Zimbabwe, a road has been built from Letaba to the Mozambican border, as well as a border post.
- [President of Malawi becomes an honorary patron of Peace Parks Foundation](https://www.peaceparks.org/president-of-malawi-becomes-an-honorary-patron-of-peace-parks-foundation/) - His Excellency Dr Bingu wa Mutharika, the President of the Republic of Malawi, has honoured Peace Parks Foundation by agreeing to become an honorary patron of the Foundation.
- [Rural communities benefit from game parks](https://www.peaceparks.org/rural-communities-benefit-from-game-parks/) - Since tourism has been earmarked as an important vehicle for economic growth in the country, it is also widely perceived as an ideal tool for helping empower disadvantaged communities.
- [Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park: Ministers meet to chart course for 2005](https://www.peaceparks.org/great-limpopo-transfrontier-park-ministers-meet-to-chart-course-for-2005/) - "Encouraging progress, and renewed energy to speed up the integration and development of the park", this was how Marthinus van Schalkwyk, Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism, described the outcomes of a meeting on Friday in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, of the South African, Mozambican and Zimbabwean Ministers responsible for the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park (GLTP).
- [Gold coin for Mapungubwe](https://www.peaceparks.org/gold-coin-for-mapungubwe/) - The "R2" coin, consisting of 24ct oz gold , bears the well known Golden Rhino. It is known as the Mapungubwe commemorative coin, and is part of a series celebrating the World Heritage Sites of South Africa.
- [New Species for Mapungubwe](https://www.peaceparks.org/new-species-for-mapungubwe/) - On 20 May 2005, 20 tsessebe were offloaded in Mapungubwe National Park. A small group of eight Red Hartebeest was offloaded as well, soon to be followed by 30 more animals.
- [New conservation parks only the start](https://www.peaceparks.org/new-conservation-parks-only-the-start/) - DEEP in the rural wilderness area bordering Mozambique, two local community groups have decided to join the wildlife business by creating new game reserves on their soil.
- [Safari to the source of the mighty Luangwa](https://www.peaceparks.org/safari-to-the-source-of-the-mighty-luangwa/) - FIONA MclNTOSH journeyed into a remote corner of central Africa to find the source of the Luangwa River before reacquainting herself with Zambia's major waterway at two of the continent's prime safari locations.
- [Transfrontier parks 'a boon to tourism'](https://www.peaceparks.org/transfrontier-parks-a-boon-to-tourism/) - "While economic development, biodiversity conservation and community involvement are the key challenges with these projects, the spin-offs for tourism are substantial," environmental affairs and tourism deputy director-general Fundisile Mketini said on Monday.
- [President Armando Emilio Guebuza of Mozambique becomes an honorary patron of Peace Parks Foundation](https://www.peaceparks.org/president-armando-emilio-guebuza-of-mozambique-becomes-an-honorary-patron-of-peace-parks-foundation/) - President Guebuza said that for his government, the conservation of natural reources was about development on a regional scale and that this, together with the conservation of fauna and flora, were part of land-use planing and of the inclusion of marginalised people in the fight against poverty.
- [Border Post Signals New Era For Transfrontier Park](https://www.peaceparks.org/border-post-signals-new-era-for-transfrontier-park/) - It may not be long before tourists can cross the border from Kruger into Mozambique
- [World's first Centre of Excellence for wildlife veterinary research](https://www.peaceparks.org/worlds-first-centre-of-excellence-for-wildlife-veterinary-research/) - A wildlife and veterinary research facility of international standing is being created as part of the Hans Hoheisen Research Station adjacent to the Orpen gate of the Kruger National Park, Dr Anton Rupert, Chairman of the Peace Parks Foundation, announced. The facility to the value of more than R30 million will be linked to the Southern African Wildlife College, where conservation managers, game rangers and field guides are already being trained to manage peace parks established in Southern Africa.
- [Transfrontier Parks Need More Beds](https://www.peaceparks.org/transfrontier-parks-need-more-beds/) - TRANSFRONTIER parks are the lure that will bring seven million tourists to South Africa - all with the same dream: to enjoy our wildlife and natural beauty.
- [SA deserves conservation back-pat](https://www.peaceparks.org/sa-deserves-conservation-back-pat/) - Champion of the Earth. What an honour for our president and our people to be the joint recipients of such a resoundingly worded award from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
- [UNEP names seven 'Champions of the Earth'](https://www.peaceparks.org/unep-names-seven-champions-of-the-earth/) - New environmental award recognizes outstanding and innovative leaders
- [The Wildlife Frontier Is Coming Down](https://www.peaceparks.org/the-wildlife-frontier-is-coming-down/) - Following all the hype about the Greater Limpopo Transfrontier Park, CAMERON EWART-SMITH investigates the first real tourist opportunities on offer in the newly proclaimed Parque National do Umpopo (PNL) in Mozambique
- [KZN conservation jewel sets pace again](https://www.peaceparks.org/kzn-conservation-jewel-sets-pace-again/) - It has come a long way. Its original St Lucia parcel of land, now forming part of a protected area patchwork of 16 sections, has pride of place as South Africa
- [More Than A Game Reserve](https://www.peaceparks.org/more-than-a-game-reserve/) - The landscape of Mapungubwe has many stories to tell, some that were written in stone over millions of years, others through human endeavour dating back to the Early Stone Age.
- [Elephants migrate to Mozambique](https://www.peaceparks.org/elephants-migrate-to-mozambique/) - The great elephant herds of the Kruger National Park, under threat of culling, are migrating in growing numbers across the border into Mozambique‘s adjacent Limpopo Park.
- [Miners - Forget About Green-Chert Mineral](https://www.peaceparks.org/miners-forget-about-green-chert-mineral/) - The Swaziland National Trust Commission (SNTC) Acting Chief Executive Officer, Sudmmbuzo Diamini, says that further exploration of the mineral would actually rob the country of major benefits.
- [Kruger signs MoU toward empowering communities](https://www.peaceparks.org/kruger-signs-mou-toward-empowering-communities/) - This Memorandum of Understanding between the CPPPP (a Department of Trade and Industry project), KNP and TEP (a partner of the Business Trust) aims to encourage economic growth in the area around the park, particularly in the agriculture and tourism sectors. It also defines the roles of each of the three organizations in meeting this objective.
- [Buses take Kruger to Kasie](https://www.peaceparks.org/buses-take-kruger-to-kasie/) - The Executive Director of the Kruger National Park (KNP), Dr Bandile Mkhize took delivery of two donated buses for its "Take Kruger to Kasie Project" on 4 February 2005. The two specially equipped Mercedes Benz Sprinter training buses have been donated by Shell South Africa via the voluntary organisation, the Honorary Rangers.
- [Maputaland the way it was](https://www.peaceparks.org/maputaland-the-way-it-was/) - JILL GOWANS visits Tembe Elephant Park - tucked up against the Mozambique border of Kwazulu-Natal.
- [Lesotho is part of world's heritage](https://www.peaceparks.org/lesotho-is-part-of-worlds-heritage/) - The Maloti-Drakensburg Transfrontier Project (MDTP) felt it was time to protect heritage places in its operational districts. The sites to be protected are those found in Mokhotlong, Butha Buthe, Qacha's Nek and Leribe districts, which are major project strongholds.
- [New camp in Limpopo National Park](https://www.peaceparks.org/new-camp-in-limpopo-national-park/) - Campismo Albufeira was opened late-2007 and is situated close to the Massingir Entrance Gate, as well as the Massingir Dam wall. It consists of four chalets of reed and canvas, each with a small veranda and braai area. The chalets are equipped to house two people and each has an en-suite WC and kitchenette. Campismo
- [Freedom in the wilderness](https://www.peaceparks.org/freedom-in-the-wilderness/) - Why should "Kruger's new east", as it's being hyped, be part of your next park itinerary? JAZZ KUSCHKE crossed the border into Mozambique's Limpopo National Park to find out. Along with Kruger and Gonarezhou National Park in Zimbabwe, it makes up the vast Greater Limpopo Transfrontier Park. "BULL," breathed Johan Klopper, stopping the vehicle. About
- [Seeking a natural peace](https://www.peaceparks.org/seeking-a-natural-peace/) - SOUTH Africa`s Peace Parks Foundation has been involved in efforts to get North and South Korea to turn the demilitarised zone between them into a transfrontier park.
- [Influx of tourists to Mozambique sky-rockets](https://www.peaceparks.org/influx-of-tourists-to-mozambique-sky-rockets/) - The number of tourists who entered Mozambique in December from South Africa increased by more than 120% in comparison to the same period the previous year. These dramatic statistics were just released by Alfandegas Mozambique who keep exact records of all tourists who visit that country.
- [Elephant route to be demined](https://www.peaceparks.org/elephant-route-to-be-demined/) - AN ancient but now lethal migration route for elephants is to be demined in Angola, paving the way for swelling herds in neighbouring Botswana and Zambia to expand their range, the United Nations said yesterday. Angola, which suffered almost three decades of civil war, is one of the world`s most heavily mined countries, a situation that is taking a heavy toll on both humans and wildlife.
- [Elephants migrate between Kruger and Limpopo National Parks](https://www.peaceparks.org/elephants-migrate-between-kruger-and-limpopo-national-parks/) - During a recent joint venture between Mozambique, South Africa's Department of Agriculture, SANParks and Peace Parks Foundation to monitor buffalo in Limpopo National Park (LNP) in Mozambique, two dysfunctional collars were removed from elephant that had previously been translocated.
- [Punda Maria gets a facelift](https://www.peaceparks.org/punda-maria-gets-a-facelift/) - Punda Maria Camp has received seven luxury tents and a swimming pool, valued at around R2.5-million, and Punda Maria Gate has received a new building, reception area and ablution blocks, valued at R1.9-million. Both projects are part of the KNP's R40-million infrastructure upgrade as part of the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park initiative.
- [A stolen forest repurposed](https://www.peaceparks.org/a-stolen-forest-repurposed/) - Zinave National Park recently presented the Macangussane Primary School near the town of Macuvale, located in the buffer zone of the park, with 37 new desks to celebrate the start of the 2019 school year. The desks were expertly crafted from wood confiscated from individuals who had been engaging in illegal logging activities within Zinave.
- [Almost lost for words in, yes, a living tapestry](https://www.peaceparks.org/almost-lost-for-words-in-yes-a-living-tapestry/) - In September, with the signing of an agreement between Malawi and Zambia, the Nyika and adjoining Vwaza Marsh entered a new era as one of the transfrontler conservation areas (TFCA) targeted by the Peace Parks Foundation. Existing TFCAs in southern Africa have been lavishly funded with the aim of promoting peace, conservation and tourism through national boundary-spanning game reserves.
- [Where the buffalo roam](https://www.peaceparks.org/where-the-buffalo-roam/) - The Greater St Lucia Wetlands Park was recently singled out for praise by national Environmental Affairs and Tourism Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk for its combination of tourism development, conservation, poverty relief, community participation and empowerment. `The next phase will see us expanding our partnership with Mozambique and Swaziland, whose ministers I will be meeting before the end of November. If our plans succeed we will be creating the first Transfrontier Marine Park and the first Transfrontier World Heritage Site in Africa between South Africa and Mozambique as part of the Lubombo Spatial Development Initiative.
- [Mapungubwe National Park reveals its royal secrets](https://www.peaceparks.org/mapungubwe-national-park-reveals-its-royal-secrets/) - Peace Parks Foundation, De Beers, National Parks Trust and WWF SA assisted in consolidating the area which has now become the Mapungubwe National Park by facilitating negotiations with landowners and the buying up of farmland. Peace Parks Foundation's GIS laboratory also played a major role in the park's planning and zoning.
- [Peace Parks Foundation receives ESRI Presidential Award](https://www.peaceparks.org/peace-parks-foundation-receives-esri-presidential-award/) - Peace Parks Foundation of South Africa was presented with the prestigious Presidential Award in front of 13,000 attendees of the 2004 ESRI International User Conference. Professor van Riet, Chief Executive Officer, accepted the award from ESRI president Jack Dangermond for his lifelong use of GIS in conservation as well as his leadership in the Foundation's GIS.
- [Great Limpopo Expansion](https://www.peaceparks.org/great-limpopo-expansion/) - PLANS to establish a Great Limpopo Transfrontier Area, almost trebling the area of land currently protected by the transfrontier park of the same name, were moving ahead, Environment Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk said yesterday. Speaking at Cape Town`s Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens at the launch of this year`s National Tourism Month, which will be next month,
- [New Makuleke Tourism Development](https://www.peaceparks.org/new-makuleke-tourism-development/) - THE MALULEKE Community, in the north eastern region of Limpopo, who were awarded land in the Kruger National Park three years ago, through an historic restitution agreement, are in the news again. After successfully opening a game lodge in the area, on behalf of the community, concessionaires Wilderness Safaris have now announced that a luxury tented camp is to be added to the existing accommodation facilities.
- [Great Limpopo TFCA: Another step forward](https://www.peaceparks.org/great-limpopo-tfca-another-step-forward/) - The recent completion of the Makhadzi picnic site near the newly created Girayondo border post in the Kruger National Park (KNP) signalled another significant step towards the final establishment of the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park.
- [MoU signed between the World Wide Fund for Nature and Peace Parks Foundation](https://www.peaceparks.org/mou-signed-between-the-world-wide-fund-for-nature-and-peace-parks-foundation/) - The purpose of the MoU is to make provision for collaboration, on a specific project basis in geographical areas of mutual interest, between the World Wide Fund for Nature and Peace Parks Foundation in using the TFCA's mechanism and necessary supporting activities, including inter alia funding, policy development, training and capacity-building and infrastructure development.
- [Top architectural award for Bitterpan Wilderness Camp](https://www.peaceparks.org/top-architectural-award-for-bitterpan-wilderness-camp/) - Bitterpan, the new wilderness camp in Kgalagadi, has received a top accolade from the Pretoria Institute for Architecture.
- [Malawi / Zambia MoU signed](https://www.peaceparks.org/malawi-zambia-mou-signed/) - At 6pm on Friday, Malawi's Minister of Information and Tourism, Ken Lipenga, and Zambia's Minister of Tourism, Environment and Natural Resources, Patrick Kalifungwa, signed a memorandum of understanding that will see the two countries joining forces in conserving their contiguous wildlife areas.
- [White rhino released in Mapungubwe](https://www.peaceparks.org/white-rhino-released-in-mapungubwe/) - FOLLOWING a journey of more than nine hours on the road from the Kruger National Park, four white rhinos were released into the Mapungubwe National Park in Musina, in the Limpopo Province during a ceremony in the park on Wednesday, 21 July2004.
- [Plans for transfrontier park on schedule](https://www.peaceparks.org/plans-for-transfrontier-park-on-schedule/) - The Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park (GLTP) and the plans for this year are still on schedule. This long-term project, that will unite the Limpopo National Park in Mozambique, the Kruger National Park in South Africa and the Gonarezhou National Park, Manjinji Pan Sanctuary and Malipati Safari Area in Zimbabwe, is already more than just talk.
- [Mapungubwe National Park launched](https://www.peaceparks.org/mapungubwe-national-park-launched/) - Previously known as Vhembe Dongola National Park, Mapungubwe is 60km west of Musina and 230km northeast of Polokwane.
- [The Little Golden Rhino](https://www.peaceparks.org/the-little-golden-rhino/) - Mapungubwe was the centre of a kingdom the size of modem Swaziland with about 5 000 people living at its centre. The kingdom lasted between 1030 and 1290.
- [Regional Tourism Charter Vital](https://www.peaceparks.org/regional-tourism-charter-vital/) - The Transfrontier Park project offers a great opportunity to leverage on such regional cooperation to conserve the natural environment. The charter therefore should encourage the removal of impediments that discourage the tourism business and investment, increase mobility of visitors and tourism goods and services and enhance recognition and understanding of tourism as a vehicle for economic and social development.
- [New Honorary Patron: President Jose dos Santos](https://www.peaceparks.org/new-honorary-patron-president-jose-dos-santos/) - His Excellency Mr Jose Eduardo dos Santos, President of the Republic of Angola has honoured Peace Parks Foundation by agreeing to become an honorary patron.
- [/Ai /Ais-Richtersveld Transfrontier Park: Joint Management Board appointed](https://www.peaceparks.org/ai-ais-richtersveld-transfrontier-park-joint-management-board-appointed/) - Following the signing by the Presidents of Namibia and South Africa of the international treaty that established the /Ai /Ais-Richtersveld Transfrontier Park (ARTP) on 1 August 2003, Ministers Philemon Malima of Namibia and Valli Moosa of South Africa on Saturday, 28 February 2004 appointed the ARTP Joint Management Board.
- [Kalahari lions tucked safely behind new electrified fencing](https://www.peaceparks.org/kalahari-lions-tucked-safely-behind-new-electrified-fencing/) - The future of the famous Kalahari lions has, for now, been secured, with the completion of a multimillion rand electrified fence between the border of the Kgalaghadi Transfrontier Park arid farming communities on the Namibian side.
- [Treaty establishing /Ai /Ais-Richtersveld Transfrontier Park signed](https://www.peaceparks.org/treaty-establishing-ai-ais-richtersveld-transfrontier-park-signed/) - On 1 August President Sam Nujoma of Namibia and President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa signed an international treaty establishing the /Ai /Ais-Richtersveld Transfrontier Park.
- [Mapungubwe heritage site a 'Milestone for Renaissance'](https://www.peaceparks.org/mapungubwe-heritage-site-a-milestone-for-renaissance/) - The declaration of the Limpopo province's Mapungubwe as a World Heritage Site has been hailed as "another milestone in the crusade of the African Renaissance".
- [Jumbo Journey](https://www.peaceparks.org/jumbo-journey/) - As part of the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park (GLTP) initiative, another batch of 50 Kruger National Park (KNP) elephant has been relocated to Mozambique.
- [Maloti-Drakensberg TFCA: Status update](https://www.peaceparks.org/maloti-drakensberg-tfca-status-update/) - The Maloti-Drakensberg TFCA was blessed with probably one of the best winter months since 1981. Although we sympathize with farmers in both Lesotho and South Africa who lost some animals to the cold, the snow of 2002 is a natural gift to our region and builds the very important water bank in our wetlands.
- [World Elephant Day](https://www.peaceparks.org/world-elephant-day/) - The dramatic escalation of poaching, habitat loss, human-elephant conflict and mistreatment in captivity are just some of the threats to elephant. A March 2013 inter-agency report by UNEP, CITES, IUCN and TRAFFIC, titled Elephants in the Dust, states that elephant are now at dire risk due to a dramatic rise in poaching for their ivory.
- [Ai-Ais/Richtersveld Memorandum of Understanding signed](https://www.peaceparks.org/signing-the-memorandum-of-understanding/) - On 17 August 2001 the Minister Environmental Affairs of Namibia, Minister Philemon Malima and his South African counterpart, Minister Valli Moosa, signed the Memorandum of Understanding towards the establishment of the Ai-Ais/Richtersveld Transfrontier Conservation Park.
- [Studying animal behavior to guide pro-active conservation](https://www.peaceparks.org/studying-animal-behavior-to-guide-pro-active-conservation/) - Over a two-day period in February 2019, Maputo Special Reserve (MSR) in partnership with Peace Parks Foundation undertook the collaring of six elephant cows and two buffalo in Mozambique’s Maputo Special Reserve. The collars allow real-time tracking of the animals and provide baseline data on their location, behavior and movement patterns.
- [Training off the beaten track](https://www.peaceparks.org/training-off-the-beaten-track/) - Denton Joachim, a Peace Parks Foundation GIS Technician, is regularly sent out to train field staff in several southern African transfrontier conservation areas. His work takes him well off the beaten track, often to extremely remote parks and reserves. Denton’s training focuses on teaching conservation professionals to work with SMART, the Spatial Monitoring and Reporting Tool that makes it possible to collect, store, analyse and communicate patrol-based data on illegal activities, patrol activities and wildlife.
- [Transfrontier marine park a first](https://www.peaceparks.org/transfrontier-marine-park-a-first/) - 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 Ouro Marine Protected Area. This creates a vast protected marine area covering 300km of unbroken coastline and near-pristine beaches, from St Lucia
- [Transfrontier Venture Gratifies Ministers](https://www.peaceparks.org/transfrontier-venture-gratifies-ministers/) - KATIMA MULILO - The five SADC ministers with the portfolios of environment and tourism in Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe yesterday expressed satisfaction with the progress made on the proposed transfrontier tourism park. At a ministerial meeting that took place yesterday at a hotel on the banks of the Zambezi River in Katima Mulilo, Namibia's
- [Transfrontier peace park straddling SA, Botswana, Zimbabwe closer to reality](https://www.peaceparks.org/transfrontier-peace-park-straddling-sa-botswana-zimbabwe-closer-to-reality/) - The proposed Transfrontier Conservation Area (TFCA) including SA, Botswana and Zimbabwe is a step closer to reality with the signing of a memorandum by Environmental Affairs and Tourism Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk and his foreign counterparts last week.
- [Enchanted by the beauty and promise of Malawi](https://www.peaceparks.org/enchanted-by-the-beauty-and-promise-of-malawi/) - Majestic landscapes, warm-hearted hospitality and the atmosphere of old Africa make Malawi an enchanting place to visit. Add to this the progressive conservation plans and practices being implemented in Nyika and Vwaza Marsh reserves and Malawi may soon be an evocative African Eden for both people and wildlife.
- [Foot-and-Mouth Disease Outbreak: Conservation International and Peace Parks Foundation call for a non-geographic, science based approach](https://www.peaceparks.org/foot-and-mouth-disease-outbreak-recommendations-for-a-non-geographic-science-based-approach/) - Conservation International and Peace Parks Foundation are urging policy makers in South Africa to use a non-geographic based trade approach following an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in cattle in the Vhembe District of Limpopo, South Africa.
- [Two-wheel technology: powerful pedals for conservation](https://www.peaceparks.org/two-wheel-technology-powerful-pedals-for-conservation/) - Using bicycles in conservation offers simple solutions to complicated transportation problems in remote and expansive protected areas that often have limited resources. A group of Peace Park Foundation’s mountain biking enthusiasts took up the challenge of testing electronic bicycles, or e-bikes, that were donated by Pon.Bike to enhance ranger mobility in transfrontier conservation areas.
- [From our CEO: a moment to reflect on 2018](https://www.peaceparks.org/from-our-ceo-a-moment-to-reflect-on-2018/) - Reflecting on 2018 evokes a range of emotions for us. The year provided us with newfound energy and inspiration, and we would like to share some of the highlights with you.
- [WATCH: Rewilding Africa - a journey of a thousand animals.](https://www.peaceparks.org/watch-rewilding-africa-a-journey-of-a-thousand-animals/) - Habitat loss has been identified as the main threat to 85% of all species described in the IUCN's Red List. During 2018, facilitated by strategic partnerships, we translocated more than a thousand animals.
- [A safe space for rhinos](https://www.peaceparks.org/a-safe-space-for-rhinos/) - The Postcode Meerkat, a wide-area surveillance system, has been operationally deployed in South Africa’s Kruger National Park for the better part of 21 months. Surveillance data and information collected through this system have been instrumental in saving both human and animal lives and have greatly contributed to the effectiveness of anti-poaching teams in the park.
- [A great year for wildlife in Maputo Special Reserve](https://www.peaceparks.org/a-great-year-for-wildlife-in-maputo-special-reserve/) - Since 2013, more than 4 200 animals have been translocated to Maputo Special Reserve through a multi-year rewilding project led by Peace Parks Foundation in support of Mozambique’s National Administration of Conservation Areas (ANAC). On Sunday 11 November 2018, Peace Parks released three more buffalo into the reserve, thereby concluding a busy translocation season.
- [Calling in the dogs to disrupt wildlife trafficking in Mozambique](https://www.peaceparks.org/calling-in-the-dogs-to-protect-mozambiques-borders/) - On Monday 26 November 2018, Mozambique officially welcomed a specialized team of detection dogs and their handlers to Maputo. The new unit has been established to enhance law enforcement activities at critical points along the country’s most notorious trafficking routes.
- [Expanding Great Limpopo](https://www.peaceparks.org/expanding-great-limpopo/) - The GLC comprises a total of nine properties on the eastern boundary of the Kruger National Park. Great Limpopo TFCA straddles the borders of Mozambique, South Africa and Zimbabwe and consolidates almost 100 000 km² of some of the most established wildlife areas in southern Africa.
- [Designing a sustainable future](https://www.peaceparks.org/designing-a-sustainable-future/) - At the World Innovation and Entrepreneurship Expo (WIEE) held in Shanghai, students in China are utilising marketing design to address critical social matters of concern, such as the conservation of natural resources – in this case, rhino protection.
- [Design And Innovation Pave The Way For Rhino Horn Demand Management In China](https://www.peaceparks.org/deign-and-innovation-pave-the-way-for-rhino-horn-demand-management-in-china/) - Everyone involved with and concerned about the devastation of rhino populations in southern Africa, is fully aware of the fact that the scourge of poaching is driven by rhino horn consumption in Southeast Asia. Although trading rhino horn has been illegal in China since 1993, this prohibited activity remains widespread in the country and is
- [China, the next generation: reconnecting, inspiring, protecting](https://www.peaceparks.org/china-the-next-generation/) - Young people from Shanghai are using innovative design to educate their communities on environmental and rhino protection matters. This initiative, that utilises the creative skills of Chinese youth to inspire change as a formal part of their university curriculum, is the outcome of a partnership between Peace Parks Foundation and Tongji University.
- [Southern Mozambique Set For Major Tourism Development](https://www.peaceparks.org/southern-mozambique-set-for-major-tourism-deveopment/) - Transfrontier conservation NGO, Peace Parks Foundation, has signed a partnership agreement with Mozambique to support the management and development of the Maputo Special Reserve and Ponta do Ouro Partial Marine Reserve.
- [Covane Community Lodge Opens Under The Management Of The Barra Resorts Group](https://www.peaceparks.org/covane-community-lodge-opens-under-the-management-of-the-barra-resorts-group/) - With a capacity to accommodate 34 people, the Covane Community Lodge reopened its doors in October 2012, after extensive renovations that allows it to provide services of international standards.
- [Peace Parks Foundation Legacy Trust Launched](https://www.peaceparks.org/peace-parks-foundation-legacy-trust-launched/) - “Intrinsic to human nature is the aspiration to create something of value for posterity,” says Mr Hansjürg Saager, Chairman of the Peace Parks Foundation Legacy Trust.
- [SAVÉ Valley Conservancy Upgrades Locals Schools](https://www.peaceparks.org/save-valley-conservancy-upgrades-locals-schools/) - The German government through the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) is funding the translocation of animals donated by the Savé Valley Conservancy, while making funds available to the conservancy to support community development projects in the area.
- [Limpopo National Park Communities Receivd Revenue-Sharing Cheque](https://www.peaceparks.org/limpopo-national-park-communities-receivd-revenue-sharing-cheque/) - On 17 April 2013, the Permanent Secretary of the southern province of Gaza, Francisca Maluana Cadaslamba, on behalf of the Governor and of Limpopo National Park, handed a cheque to the park communities for their 20% share of the park's 2012 financial year revenues.
- [Limpopo National Park Celebrates World Ranger Day](https://www.peaceparks.org/limpopo-national-park-celebrates-world-ranger-day/) - On 31 July 2013 Limpopo National Park, the Mozambican component of the Great Limpopo Transfrontier park, celebrated World Ranger Day with an event held at Massingir. Since 1992, World Ranger Day has been celebrated around the world each year on July 31st, the anniversary of the founding of the International Ranger Federation. The day celebrates the work of field rangers as the key protectors of parks and conservation.
- [World Heritage Nomination Training Course](https://www.peaceparks.org/world-heritage-nomination-training-course/) - The final follow-up workshop of the third African nomination training workshop for Anglophone countries by the African World Heritage Foundation took place between 29 July and 10 August in Entebbe, Uganda. The goal of the workshop was to review the requirements for the nomination of sites on the World Heritage List and to track the progress of the various potential nominations since the first workshop meeting in October 2012.
- [7-Year Old Baden Bolling Fundraises To Combat Rhino Poaching](https://www.peaceparks.org/7-year-old-baden-bolling-fundraises-to-combat-rhino-poaching/) - Baden Bolling from Colorado in the USA has always been an animal lover
- [Nelson Mandela, Founding Patron Of Peace Parks Foundation](https://www.peaceparks.org/nelson-mandela-founding-patron-of-peace-parks-foundation/) - Peace Parks Foundation deeply regrets the passing of its founding patron, Dr Nelson Mandela. The thoughts and prayers of Peace Parks Foundation staff are with Madiba's family.
- [Launch Of The Joaquim Chisano Wildlife Preservation Initiative In Mozambique](https://www.peaceparks.org/launch-of-the-joaquim-chisano-wildlife-preservation-initiative-in-mozambique/) - On 4 November 2013, the Joaquim Chissano Foundation launched the "Joaquim Chissano Wildlife Preservation Initiative in Mozambique” at the Joaquim Chissano International Conference Centre, Maputo.
- [Dylan Lewis Supports Peace Parks Foundation](https://www.peaceparks.org/dylan-lewis-supports-peace-parks-foundation/) - South African artist Dylan Lewis is widely regarded as one of the world's foremost sculptors.
- [President Chissano Visits Limpopo National Park](https://www.peaceparks.org/president-chissano-visits-limpopo-national-park/) - Massingir, 22 Jan 2014 – Former Mozambican president and Peace Parks Foundation board member, Mr Joaquim Chissano, visited Limpopo National Park (LNP) on a fact-finding mission, primarily intended to obtain a better understanding of the park's voluntary resettlement programme and the poaching challenges faced by the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park (GLTP).
- [Limpopo National Park: Increased Anti-Poaching Successes](https://www.peaceparks.org/limpopo-national-park-increased-anti-poaching-successes/) - Limpopo National Park's protection unit delivered improved successes during 2013, with the arrest of 43 poachers (up from 14 in 2012) and the confiscation of 21 rifles (up from 15 in 2012).
- [Limpopo National Park Supports Vespas Soccer Team](https://www.peaceparks.org/limpopo-national-park-supports-vespas-soccer-team/) - As part of Limpopo National Park's initiatives to foster relationships with surrounding communities and to raise awareness of the increasing poaching threats faced by the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park, the park, with support from Peace Parks Foundation, sponsored the purchase of new soccer kits for the local Massingir soccer team, the Vespas.
- [Agreements Signed To Strengthen Anti-Poaching Efforts](https://www.peaceparks.org/agreements-signed-to-strengthen-anti-poaching-efforts/) - On 17 April Mozambique and South Africa signed a memorandum of understanding in the field of biodiversity, conservation and management. R24.9 million from the Dutch and Swedish postcode lotteries’ grant, secured by Peace Parks Foundation, will assist Mozambique’s anti-poaching efforts.
- [Limpopo National Park Issues 2013 Revenue Sharing Cheque To Park Communities](https://www.peaceparks.org/limpopo-national-park-issues-2013-revenue-sharing-cheque-to-park-communities/) - In addition to the park's various community projects, such as the 18 community irrigation schemes implemented in the buffer zone from which over 3 000 community members benefit, the park has to date handed communities a total 20% revenue sharing amount of 7 526 962 Mt (€174 410).
- [Resettlement Review And Planning Workshop](https://www.peaceparks.org/resettlement-review-and-planning-workshop/) - The resettlement of approximately 1 600 families living in eight villages in Limpopo National Park is being undertaken to World Bank OP 4.12 standards that focus on sustainability. The programme also focuses on community development, which includes a structured compensation package with a mortar-type house, village water supply, and school and irrigation schemes. It also includes improved future employment opportunities in the ongoing house construction, park development, or Massingir sugar cane development sectors.
- [Peace Parks Foundation 2013 Annual Review & Financial Statements](https://www.peaceparks.org/peace-parks-foundation-2013-annual-review-financial-statements/) - The Peace Parks Foundation 2013 Annual Review is now available.
- [INTEGRATED STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT OF RHINOCEROS IN SOUTH AFRICA](https://www.peaceparks.org/integrated-strategic-management-of-rhinoceros-in-south-africa/) - The South African Government will implement integrated strategic management of rhinoceros in South Africa under the stewardship of the Minister of Environmental Affairs, Mrs Edna Molewa.
- [Rhino Protection Programme Update](https://www.peaceparks.org/rhino-protection-programme-update/) - Since February this year, when the Dutch and Swedish postcode lotteries announced that Peace Parks Foundation was the key beneficiary of a €15.4million grant to combat wildlife crime and rhino poaching, the team behind the Rhino Protection Programme has made notable progress with the introduction of numerous measures to combat wildlife crime and save the endangered rhinoceros from criminal exploitation.
- [20 Years Of Turtle Monitoring And Conservation](https://www.peaceparks.org/20-years-of-turtle-monitoring-and-conservation/) - 20 years of turtle monitoring and conservation in Mozambique were celebrated in Ponta do Ouro on 19 and 20 November 2014.
- [SANParks Kudu Award For Peace Parks Foundation](https://www.peaceparks.org/sanparks-kudu-award-for-peace-parks-foundation/) - Peace Parks Foundation is the delighted winner of a South African National Parks (SANParks) Kudu Award.
- [DR Ian Player - A Tribute](https://www.peaceparks.org/dr-ian-player-a-tribute/) - Dr Player was not a man of half measures and approached everything in life with total commitment and dedication. No doubt one of his greatest contributions was his involvement in spearheading an initiative to save the white rhino from extinction through Operation Rhino.
- [Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park Collaboration To Coaching Poaching](https://www.peaceparks.org/great-limpopo-transfrontier-park-collaboration-to-coaching-poaching/) - To counter rhino poaching, there has been increased collaboration at a park management level between Limpopo National Park (LNP) in Mozambique and the Kruger National Park in South Africa, as part of the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park initiative.
- [Signage Erected To Help Protect Marine Life And Coral Reefs](https://www.peaceparks.org/signage-erected-to-help-protect-marine-life-and-coral-reefs/) - Ponta do Ouro Partial Marine Reserve, the Mozambican component of Africa’s first transfrontier marine conservation area, has erected signage to further safeguard the delicate marine life and coral reefs. The signage was funded by the World Bank trough the Ministry of Tourism's transfrontier conservation unit.
- [The Society For Conservation GIS Scholarship](https://www.peaceparks.org/the-society-for-conservation-gis-scholarship-2/) - The Society for Conservation GIS (SGIS) Global Scholarship Programme is a support programme that is offering to cover SOME of the costs to allow you attend two of the best conservation GIS conferences in the world, Esri and SCGIS, and join a very tight-knit community in specialised training courses before these conferences.
- [Helping Injured And Orphaned Rhino Survived Their Poaching Ordeal](https://www.peaceparks.org/helping-injured-and-orphaned-rhino-survived-their-poaching-ordeal/) - The Rhino Protection Programme (RPP) partners have allocated a combined R3.8 million ($311 000) in funding to bolster the efforts of the wildlife veterinary teams from both Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife (Ezemvelo) and Kruger National Park (KNP). The projects supported by the RPP have already started and focus on the treatment, rehabilitation and eventual reintroduction of injured adult rhino; and the recovery, nurturing and reintroduction of orphaned rhino.
- [Peace Parks Foundation Adds Its Voice To The World Youth Wildlife Declaration](https://www.peaceparks.org/peace-parks-foundation-adds-its-voice-to-the-world-youth-wildlife-declaration/) - On 16 March 2015, Peace Parks Foundation added its message of endorsement to the World Youth Wildlife Declaration, which was originally compiled and signed by 150 young people from 20 countries at the first ever World Youth Rhino Summit held in South Africa in 2014.
- [SANPARKS Receives Aerial Support For Anti-Poaching Operations](https://www.peaceparks.org/sanparks-receives-aerial-support-for-anti-poaching-operations/) - South African National Parks (SANParks) today announced that, as an integral part of the current strategy to combat rhino poaching in the Kruger National Park, it is in the process of applying and evaluating various aerial support technologies, which include the testing of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs).
- [New School For Macavane Community](https://www.peaceparks.org/new-school-for-macavane-community/) - A recent ceremony officially opened the resettled Macavene community's newly constructed primary school, located at Banga in the Massingir District. For the first time, Macavene children have an equipped and staffed school within their village, helping to ensure the next generation's education.
- [Celebrating A Legacy For Conservation In Southern Africa](https://www.peaceparks.org/celebrating-a-legacy-for-conservation-in-southern-africa/) - The picturesque Eikendal Winery in Stellenbosch was once again the backdrop for the annual Peace Parks Foundation Legacy Society luncheon that took place on 26 March 2015 and saw 23 loyal donors honoured for their long-standing and continued support.
- [Communities Receive Their Annual Cheque For 20% Of The Park’s Revenues](https://www.peaceparks.org/communities-receive-their-annual-cheque-for-20-of-the-parks-revenues/) - The newly appointed governor of Gaza, Stela do Grace Pinto Zeca, paid a first visit to Limpopo National Park during which she presented a cheque for MT1.03 million (approx $30,000) to the local communities. The cheque represents 20% of Limpopo National Park's revenue for 2014.
- [Operation Lebombo – Success Through Cooperation](https://www.peaceparks.org/operation-lebombo-success-through-cooperation/) - Protection forces from Mozambique and South Africa achieved a major success earlier this month, with the first joint operations conducted under a new anti-poaching initiative.
- [A Force To Be Reckoned With – LNP’s First Security Guard Training](https://www.peaceparks.org/a-force-to-be-reckoned-with-lnps-first-security-guard-training/) - In a short pre-training ceremony this week, the park warden of Limpopo National Park, António Abacar, told the trainees that as park security guards they will be expected to protect the park and its infrastructure with zeal and professionalism.
- [More Tourist Choose Limpopo National Park](https://www.peaceparks.org/more-tourist-choose-limpopo-national-park/) - Limpopo National Park revenues started increasing in the last quarter of 2014, thanks to more tourists visiting the conservation area.
- [Strategy To Improve Livelihoods Being Developed](https://www.peaceparks.org/strategy-to-improve-livelihoods-being-developed/) - The development of a strategy to improve livelihoods of community members living in the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park is on the go.
- [Peace Parks Foundation Takes Action In Honour Of Mandela Day](https://www.peaceparks.org/peace-parks-foundation-takes-action-in-honour-of-mandela-day/) - In honour of Nelson Mandela, former president of South Africa and founding patron of Peace Parks Foundation, and in the spirit of Mandela Day which is annually celebrated on 17 July, staff members on 27 July dedicated their 67 minutes in support of two local charity organisations.
- [Innovative Technologies To Protect Rhino](https://www.peaceparks.org/1886-2/) - This World Rhino Month (September), Ezemvelo KwaZulu-Natal Wildlife (Ezemvelo), in partnership with Peace Parks Foundation, started with the roll-out of a range of innovative rhino monitoring, rapid response and advanced security technologies across Ezemvelo’s rhino reserves.
- [Peace Parks Foundation Supports Isimangaliso Youth Rhino March](https://www.peaceparks.org/peace-parks-foundation-supports-isimangaliso-youth-rhino-march/) - “iSimangaliso must be the only place on the globe where the oldest land mammal (the rhinoceros) and the world’s biggest terrestrial mammal (the elephant) share an ecosystem with the world’s oldest fish (the coelacanth) and the world’s biggest marine mammal (the whale)” - President Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, 2001
- [Developing Zinave National Park As An Integral Component Of Great Limpopo](https://www.peaceparks.org/developing-zinave-national-park-as-an-integral-component-of-great-limpopo/) - On 22 September 2015, the Mozambican Minister of Land, Environmental and Rural Development, Mr Celso Correia, and Peace Parks Foundation CEO, Mr Werner Myburgh, signed a co-management agreement whereby the Mozambican National Agency for Conservation Areas and Peace Parks Foundation will develop Zinave National Park over the next five years. Zinave will be developed as an integral component of Great Limpopo Transfrontier Conservation Area (TFCA), the larger area surrounding the core transfrontier park.
- [Avis Supports Peace Parks Foundation](https://www.peaceparks.org/avis-supports-peace-parks-foundation/) - Avis has again renewed its commitment to Peace Parks Foundation by sponsoring the non-profit organisation with the use of a Toyota Corolla. Avis has been involved in conservation efforts for over three decades and has an 18-year relationship with Peace Parks Foundation.
- [Solar Power Thanks To Remgro’s Support](https://www.peaceparks.org/solar-power-thanks-to-remgros-support/) - Peace Parks Foundation this month took a giant leap forward in its efforts to operate a ‘green’ and energy-efficient head office, with its investment in a new state-of-the-art solar power system.
- [Cyclist Meet The Communities](https://www.peaceparks.org/cyclist-meet-the-communities/) - Organised by Tour de Wilderness, the Nedbank Tour de Tuli is an annual multi-stage mountain cycling event. The 11th edition saw 340 participants cycle across almost 300 km of remote and pristine wilderness terrain in Botswana, Zimbabwe and South Africa between 13 and 18 August 2015.
- [Learning The ABC Of Conservation](https://www.peaceparks.org/learning-the-abc-of-conservation/) - Limpopo National Park, in the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park, recently organised a number of conservation excursions for groups of children from local schools. Ten 7th graders and two teachers from Chibotane Primary School spent the day touring the park and learning about the importance of conserving wildlife and the environment. They also visited the tourism facilities at Machampane.
- [ESRI Africa User Conference A Success](https://www.peaceparks.org/esri-africa-user-conference-a-success/) - The first ever Esri Africa User Conference was held at the Cape Town International Convention Centre from 11 – 13 November 2015. The event was attended by 1 200 delegates over the course of the three days. The primary aim of the conference was to unite Geographic Information Systems (GIS) users in Africa. The conference allowed for networking opportunities and the showcasing of the newest software enhancements. The plenary session made mention of Peace Parks Foundation, acknowledging it for Special Achievement in GIS.
- [First Ever ESRI Africa User Conference](https://www.peaceparks.org/first-ever-esri-africa-user-conference/) - The first ever Esri Africa User Conference, hosted by Esri South Africa, will be held at the Cape Town International Convention Centre, South Africa from 11 – 13 November 2015.
- [Vote For Smart To Win The Wildlife Crime Tech Challenge People's Choice Award](https://www.peaceparks.org/vote-for-smart-to-win-the-wildlife-crime-tech-challenge-peoples-choice-award/) - The SMART (Spatial Monitoring and Reporting Tool) Partnership has been selected as a finalist in the Wildlife Crime Tech Challenge!
- [Third Time Is Luckiest Yet For Cross-Border Trail](https://www.peaceparks.org/third-time-is-luckiest-yet-for-cross-border-trail/) - Few enter Zimbabwe by wading barefoot across the cool, shallow waters of the Limpopo River. Even fewer people can say they have done so escorted by Chief Maluleke from the Makuleke Clan.
- [Great Limpopo Benefits Spill Over Borders](https://www.peaceparks.org/great-limpopo-benefits-spill-over-borders/) - “We have seen that when communities benefit from conservation projects, they support it,” says Theron. The goal is now to develop projects that are also of value to local communities. These may entail tourism and conservation, but also a range of other sectors like agriculture, livestock, business development and so forth.
- [A Smart Approach To Park Management](https://www.peaceparks.org/a-smart-approach-to-park-management/) - Developed by a group of experienced conservation practitioners, the Spatial Monitoring and Reporting Tool (SMART) is a state-of-the-art tool for measuring, evaluating and improving the effectiveness of patrols and site-based conservation activities.
- [Environmental Educational Through Film](https://www.peaceparks.org/environmental-educational-through-film/) - If an image is worth a thousand words, then a new programme by Limpopo National Park’s Community Department should speak volumes. Late in October, more than five dozen local children attended the first of a series of environmental education film events in Massingir, the small town close to the park headquarters.
- [The Society For Conservation GIS Scholarship](https://www.peaceparks.org/the-society-for-conservation-gis-scholarship/) - The Society for Conservation GIS (SGIS) Global Scholarship Programme is a support programme that is offering to cover SOME of the costs to allow you attend two of the best conservation GIS conferences in the world, Esri and SCGIS, and join a very tight-knit community in specialised training courses before these conferences.
- [Strategy To Improve Lives Beyond Park Boundaries Takes Shape](https://www.peaceparks.org/strategy-to-improve-lives-beyond-park-boundaries-takes-shape/) - Sharing benefits of the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park with those that live around it has been an important objective since its inception, and a strategy of how to attain this is taking shape.
- [Advanced Aerial Support For Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife Rhino Reserves](https://www.peaceparks.org/advanced-aerial-support-for-ezemvelo-kzn-wildlife-rhino-reserves/) - Rhino protection efforts in Ezemvelo KwaZulu-Natal Wildlife (Ezemvelo) reserves received vital support this month with the launch of the Air Shepherd UAV project – a partnership between the Lindbergh Foundation, Peace Parks Foundation and Ezemvelo.
- [The Future Of Rhino In Our Hands](https://www.peaceparks.org/the-future-of-rhino-in-our-hands/) - Rangers and vets breathed a sigh of relief as they closed the gate of the orphan boma behind a scared, but now safe, young white rhino calf.
- [Limpopo National Park Hosts Annual Kruger National Park Media Visit](https://www.peaceparks.org/limpopo-national-park-hosts-annual-kruger-national-park-media-visit/) - For the first time, Limpopo National Park was last week included in the annual visit by media to Kruger National Park.
- [Cross-Border Cooperation Saves Marine Life](https://www.peaceparks.org/cross-border-cooperation-saves-marine-life/) - Thanks to the excellent cross-border cooperation between the Ponta do Ouro Partial Marine Reserve in Mozambique and the iSimangaliso Wetland Park in South Africa, a gill net measuring 20 x 3 metres was removed from the ocean, where it had been trapping marine life.
- [President Hage Geingob Of Namibia An Honorary Patron Of Peace Parks Foundation](https://www.peaceparks.org/president-hage-geingob-of-namibia-an-honorary-patron-of-peace-parks-foundation/) - President Hage Geingob of Namibia has kindly agreed to become an honorary patron of Peace Parks Foundation. This follows on a meeting between President Geingob and Peace Parks Foundation vice-chairman and former president of Mozambique, Mr Joaquim Chissano, on 4 February 2016.
- [New Partnership To Link Health Services With Marine Conservation INITIATIVES](https://www.peaceparks.org/new-partnership-to-link-health-services-with-marine-conservation-initiatives/) - In association with the Mozambique National Administration of Conservation Areas, Peace Parks Foundation is launching a new support partnership with Blue Ventures to incorporate community health elements into Ponta do Ouro Partial Marine Reserve's conservation programme.
- [Smart Training In Limpopo National Park](https://www.peaceparks.org/smart-training-in-limpopo-national-park/) - Peace Parks Foundation recently conducted follow-up training in the application of the Spatial Monitoring and Reporting Tool (SMART) in Limpopo National Park, the Mozambican component of Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park. Initial basic training had been undertaken by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), another SMART partner.
- [Limpopo National Park Receives Biofund Support](https://www.peaceparks.org/limpopo-national-park-receives-biofund-support/) - Limpopo National Park recently hosted a delegation from BIOFUND for an inaugural meeting, as the first recipient of funding support for critical operations. Beneficiaries will include local communities, thanks to community development programmes, and the mitigation of human-wildlife conflict with improved fence maintenance. Tourists will also benefit, as existing infrastructure, such as roads and camps, will be upgraded.
- [Meeting TFCA Challenges Head-On](https://www.peaceparks.org/meeting-tfca-challenges-head-on/) - To address the many challenges of transfrontier conservation areas (TFCAs), the Southern African Development Community (SADC) TFCA Network, in partnership with Peace Parks Foundation, the African Wildlife Foundation, the Frankfurt Zoological Society, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Panthera and the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ), hosted a symposium in Gaborone, Botswana, from 3 – 5 July 2016.
- [New Plane And Boat For Limpopo National Park](https://www.peaceparks.org/new-plane-and-boat-for-limpopo-national-park/) - Limpopo National Park is now using its new aeroplane, a Savannah S, as replacement of its Bantam, which served the park from 2005 until 2015. The Savannah was donated by the Rhino Protection Programme - a partnership between the South African Department of Environmental Affairs, South African National Parks, Peace Parks Foundation and Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife. The multi-faceted programme is funded by the Dutch and Swedish postcode lotteries and a number of other donors.
- [Livelihoods Strategy For Great Limpopo On The Map](https://www.peaceparks.org/livelihoods-strategy-for-great-limpopo-on-the-map/) - Joint research programmes, coordinated with local universities, will strive toward answering locally-defined questions and will be designed to allow for transboundary analysis and comparison. Cultural exchanges can be explored as part of the wider GLTP exchange programme.
- [This Is Predator Country](https://www.peaceparks.org/this-is-predator-country/) - Gonarezhou National Park is turning into prime predator country, with lion, cheetah and spotted hyena populations reported to be doing well, while the wild dogs are flourishing.
- [Tour De Wilderness Celebrates 12th Nedbank Tour De Tuli](https://www.peaceparks.org/tour-de-wilderness-celebrates-12th-nedbank-tour-de-tuli/) - Tour de Wilderness, the organiser of the annual Nedbank Tour de Tuli multi-stage mountain bike event, is proud to celebrate the success of its 12th Tour which saw 330 participants cycle across 275 km of challenging and remote terrain in Botswana, Zimbabwe and South Africa in the Greater Mapungubwe TFCA, between 28 July and 2 August.
- [Creating Young Conservation Ambassadors](https://www.peaceparks.org/creating-young-conservation-ambassadors/) - A core focus of the pilot programme was to instil a steadfast philosophy of Hlawula Vutomi, meaning to Choose Life for themselves, their communities and nature’s plants and animals. They were taken on game drives and guided walks in the Kruger National Park bushveld and educated on the interconnectedness of humans and nature.
- [News For The Last Quarter Of 2016](https://www.peaceparks.org/news-for-the-last-quarter-of-2016/) - The Bateluer
- [Launch Of Postcode Meerkat Surveillance System In KNP](https://www.peaceparks.org/launch-of-postcode-meerkat-surveillance-system-in-knp/) - The Postcode Meerkat will significantly increase KNP’s ability to protect rhino and other vulnerable species.
- [Former President Of Namibia A Member Of The Peace Parks Foundation Board Of Directors](https://www.peaceparks.org/former-president-of-namibia-a-member-of-the-peace-parks-foundation-board-of-directors/) - Peace Parks Foundation has the honour to announce that Mr Hifikepunye Pohamba, former president of the Republic of Namibia, has joined the Peace Parks Foundation Board of Directors. Mr Pohamba is the second former head of state on the board. The former president of Mozambique, Mr Joaquim Chissano, is vice-chairman.
- [Pres The Balance Of Nature To Traditional Medicine Schools](https://www.peaceparks.org/pres-the-balance-of-nature-to-traditional-medicine-schools/) - TRAFFIC and the National Centre for Health Communication and Education (T5G) held training sessions for TM leaders and educators as part of their ongoing efforts to reduce the demand for illegal wildlife products, such as rhino horn. Following the training, these 50 “champions” will engage more than 3,000 students, other lecturers and TM practitioners throughout Viet Nam to promote legal and sustainably sourced traditional medicine products.
- [Communities And Conservation](https://www.peaceparks.org/communities-and-conservation/) - The 26 farmers in the project each have 11 rows of chillies totalling 1.5 hectares. From this they produce nine tonnes of bird’s eye chillies a year, all sold to Nando's, a popular restaurant chain.
- [Conscious Conservation](https://www.peaceparks.org/conscious-conservation/) - The reserve was proclaimed as far back as 1932, specifically to protect the coastal elephants. Then in 1969, the area was found to have numerous endemic plant species so in 2010 the reserve’s borders were further extended. Only in 2015 did the first luxury lodge– Anvil Bay at Chemucane – open in the reserve, making it a coveted and accessible destination for wilderness lovers who fly or drive in. So while Maputo Special Reserve was proclaimed for the fauna and flora, it’s also accessible for conservation-minded humans to enjoy.
- [Traffic Brings Hospitality Enterprises Together To Stop Illegal Wildlife Trade](https://www.peaceparks.org/traffic-brings-hospitality-enterprises-together-to-stop-illegal-wildlife-trade/) - “We know consumer tourism takes place in Viet Nam and hotels and tourism companies are uniquely suited to promote zero-tolerance towards illegal wildlife consumption—they are experts at customer relations and they interact with hundreds of thousands of international and national tourists every year.” “Businesses in the hospitality sector can now join the thousands of other businesses in Viet Nam in the fight against illegal wildlife trade by encouraging their guests to be responsible tourists.”
- [Cooking Up A Storm To Encourage Legal And Sustainable Foods For The Lunar New Year Holidays, Instead Of Threatened Wildlife](https://www.peaceparks.org/cooking-up-a-storm-to-encourage-legal-and-sustainable-foods-for-the-lunar-new-year-holidays-instead-of-threatened-wildlife/) - Madelon Willemsen, Head of Office for TRAFFIC in Viet Nam said, “We are holding this competition with CWD because Vietnamese women have a great deal of influence in their families. They are providers, protectors, and teachers to the people around them. We want to drive the message that they can protect the people they care about by using legal and sustainably sourced foods.”
- [Where Wilderness Lives](https://www.peaceparks.org/where-wilderness-lives/) - 'We are not here just to police, but to help the community,' adds Miguel, as we stop momentarily at Santa Maria and look across the water to Inhaca island. 'We set up a school at Millibangalala for the community that lives in Maputo Special Reserve, and the local children who can now write in Portuguese. Then we also drive the doctor to the community regularly, buy food on their behalf and deliver it, and help them with medical emergencies. This has, of course completely changed our relationship with the community for the better.'
- [Supporting Food Security](https://www.peaceparks.org/supporting-food-security/) - To further food security and sustainable development, Peace Parks Foundation this month supported the distribution of corn and bean seed kits to resettled communities, thereby improving their agricultural production and productivity.
- [The Society For Conversation GIS Scholarship 2018](https://www.peaceparks.org/the-society-for-conversation-gis-scholarship-2018/) - Applications for the Society for Conservation GIS (SCGIS) Global Scholarship Program for 2018 is now open! This is not a typical scholarship program. Rather, it is a support program that covers SOME of the costs to allow candidates to receive top level GIS training and attend and present their work at two of the best Conservation GIS conferences in the world: Esri and SCGIS. Deadline for applications is Monday, 08 January 2018. Kindly also note the eligibility and obligations sections in the application form.
- [EIKENDAL AND PEACE PARKS PARTNERSHIP BEARS FRUIT](https://www.peaceparks.org/eikendal-and-peace-parks-partnership-bears-fruit/) - Cellar Master, Nico Grobler, proudly displays the 2015 Eikendal Pinotage. Since May 2016, 5% of all tasting room sales of this acclaimed vintage has been committed to Peace Parks Foundation.
- [A gourmet stand-off for title of Fab Chef 2018](https://www.peaceparks.org/a-gourmet-stand-off-for-title-of-fab-chef-2018/) - Eight pairs of chefs in training competed for the Fab Chef 2018 title at the SA College for Tourism.
- [Microsoft Enables South African NPOs To Drive Greater Impact Through Digital Transformation](https://www.peaceparks.org/microsoft-enables-south-african-npos-to-drive-greater-impact-through-digital-transformation/) - Building on Microsoft South Africa’s support of Peace Parks Foundation’s anti-poaching solutions, Microsoft Philanthropies is providing a grant to support its move to the cloud and AI for Earth is providing three grants to support various aspects of their work.
- [Monitoring & Evaluation Systems Training In The Lubombo TFCA](https://www.peaceparks.org/monitoring-evaluation-systems-training-in-the-lubombo-tfca/) - Staff members of the Maputo Special Reserve and the Ponta do Ouro Partial Marine Reserve in Mozambique were recently trained in the use of a spatial monitoring & evaluation system.
- [Changing Lives For The Better](https://www.peaceparks.org/changing-lives-for-the-better/) - Bird’s eye chillies have more bite than just the sauces they are added to; they are building houses, buying furniture and opening bank accounts for growers.
- [Protection against poisonous poachers intensifies](https://www.peaceparks.org/protection-against-poisonous-poachers-intensifies/) - Working in partnership with Mozambique’s National Administration for Conservation Areas (ANAC), Peace Parks Foundation is using the funds to establish an expanded Intensive Protection Zone (IPZ) in Limpopo National Park. Concerned about the impact of continued poaching on the sustainable development of Limpopo National Park, Peace Parks Foundation recently mobilised additional funding amounting to more than R7 million to help bolster anti-poaching efforts in the park, and is also pleased to announce the contribution of a further €880,000 from the French Development Agency.
- [250 Bicycles Donated To Learners From Makuleke Community](https://www.peaceparks.org/250-bicycles-donated-to-learners-from-makuleke-community/) - On 26 April, Children in the Wilderness (CITW) and Qhubeka donated 250 bicycles to underprivileged learners at N’wanati High School in Limpopo’s Makuleke Community as part of Qhubeka’s innovative Scholar Mobility Programme.
- [NGOs Invited To Apply For Consultative Status With The UN](https://www.peaceparks.org/ngos-invited-to-apply-for-consultative-status-with-the-un/) - As a non-governmental organisation (NGO) in special consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), Peace Parks Foundation would like to remind other NGOs of the 1 June 2017 deadline for applications. This is the last month to apply for ECOSOC consultative status in order to be considered by the 2018 NGO Committee (Deadline: 1 June 2017 - late submissions will not be accepted).
- [More Than 10 000 Vietnamese Business People Reached](https://www.peaceparks.org/more-than-10-000-vietnamese-business-people-reached/) - The workshop further enhanced the capacity of trainers who are fostering CSR adoption throughout Viet Nam, with the participants gaining insights into how it can benefit nascent companies. The trainers also learned of the current state of wildlife crime and the latest methods and tools to change consumer behaviour.
- [Lions Poisoned For Bone Trade](https://www.peaceparks.org/lions-poisoned-for-bone-trade/) - Peter Leitner, Peace Parks Foundation’s project manager in Limpopo National Park, voiced his concern: 'It is clear that there is a definite escalation in targeting and poaching lion for the lion bone trade.
- [LOSS OF A GREAT FRIEND AND SUPPORTER](https://www.peaceparks.org/loss-of-a-great-friend-and-supporter/) - Peace Parks Foundation is deeply saddened by the loss of one of its most devoted and generous supporters, Mr Hansjürg Saager, who was also the chairman of the Peace Parks Foundation Legacy Society.
- [45 Vultures Poisoned In Limpopo National Park](https://www.peaceparks.org/45-vultures-poisoned-in-limpopo-national-park/) - The remains of the vultures and one jackal were found on 25 August during a routine patrol. They had all fed on a nyala that had been poisoned, unfortunately resulting in their deaths. All the vultures’ beaks and claws were intact, leaving experts to speculate on the true intent and targets of the poison attack.
- [Fundraiser: Africa Comes To Atlanta, USA](https://www.peaceparks.org/fundraiser-africa-comes-to-atlanta-usa/) - On 3 October 2017, Tracker Academy will partner with Iconic Africa to present an authentic African night of inspiration and entertainment in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, to help raise funds and awareness for the Academy. Tracker Academy is a non-profit organisation that trains disadvantaged rural people in the traditional skills of tracking.
- [Scholar Mobility Programme To Empower 250 Learners From Maluleke Community](https://www.peaceparks.org/scholar-mobility-programme-to-empower-250-learners-from-maluleke-community/) - Children in the Wilderness (CITW) is proud to announce its partnership with Qhubeka’s Scholar Mobility Programme to ensure the donation and delivery of 250 bicycles to underprivileged learners at N’wanati High School in Limpopo’s Makuleke Community.
- [New Technology Transforms Protected Area Management](https://www.peaceparks.org/new-technology-transforms-protected-area-management/) - Called SMART Connect, the new technology allows rangers and conservation area managers to exchange critical information and transmit data in real time. SMART Connect delivers a revolutionary suite of services improving access to data for park staff and managers on pressing issues such as poaching and human wildlife conflict.
- [A Year - End Message From The CEO](https://www.peaceparks.org/a-year-end-message-from-the-ceo/) - Our 20-year anniversary is a magnificent milestone that we wish to dedicate to each and every one who supported our vision and our activities over the past two decades. We thank you for your loyalty, your passion and your staunch belief in PPF’s work through changing times. Whilst PPF proudly celebrated this landmark in its history, we continue to look forward with the knowledge that the preservation of large functional ecosystems has never been as important as it is right now, and that there is much work to be done.
- [A New Integrated Anti-Poaching Approach For Ezemvelo Rhino Reserves](https://www.peaceparks.org/a-new-integrated-anti-poaching-approach-for-ezemvelo-rhino-reserves-2/) - With the nerve centre now officially launched, the upcoming months will see additional capacity being deployed to ensure efficiency and sustainability, and ensure that new systems are integrated into daily anti-poaching operations going forward.
- [Reproductive Health: Empowering The Women Of Mozambique](https://www.peaceparks.org/reproductive-health-empowering-the-women-of-mozambique/) - Hortencia Tembe had her first child at the age of 16. She lives in a small, rural village in the south of Mozambique.Family planning interventions within rural and impoverished communities will go a long way in supporting women such as Maria and Hortencia to meaningfully contribute towards economic growth and development within their communities.
- [Ellie Mom Saved From Snare](https://www.peaceparks.org/ellie-mom-saved-from-snare/) - Brian Neubert, Peace Parks Foundation’s Conservation Manager in Maputo Special Reserve, spotted the elephant while she was with a group of around 20 other elephant. Flying with helicopter pilot Richard Fair, he noted her position and hastily returned back to base to refuel and mobilise a ground-crew to assist with removing the snare.
- [First Matchia Chillies Harvested](https://www.peaceparks.org/first-matchia-chillies-harvested/) - Members of the Matchia community have harvested their first chillies, to the delight of all involved.
- [Congratulations To A True Custodian Of Nature!](https://www.peaceparks.org/congratulations-to-a-true-custodian-of-nature/) - Miguel has just been announced as a recipient of the 2018 African Ranger Award - a prestigious accolade presented by Paradise Foundation International and Alibaba Foundation.
- [A Transfrontier Conservation Success Story: First Phase Of Wildlife Translocation Concluded](https://www.peaceparks.org/a-transfrontier-conservation-success-story-first-phase-of-wildlife-translocation-concluded/) - 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.
- [All-Terrain Vehicles For Ponta Do Ouro Partial Marine Reserve](https://www.peaceparks.org/all-terrain-vehicles-for-ponta-do-ouro-partial-marine-reserve/) - The Ponta do Ouro Partial Marine Reserve in the Lubombo TFCA now boasts two all-terrain vehicles, thanks to the Turing Foundation.
- [BINDZU & TCHIA Agricultural Project Launched](https://www.peaceparks.org/bindzu-tchia-agricultural-project-launched/) - The Bindzu and Tchia Association’s agricultural project has just been launched. Situated in the Mozambican component of the Lubombo TFCA, the project will provide an income to 40 farmers and food security to 150 peopl Greenhouses have been erected for community members to produce vegetables, using drip irrigation. Fertiliser, pesticides and seed have been procured
- [Approval Of A Joint Operational Strategy For Core Area Of Usuthu-Tembe-Futi TFCA](https://www.peaceparks.org/approval-of-a-joint-operational-strategy-for-core-area-of-usuthu-tembe-futi-tfca/) - Exciting news in the Usuthu-Tembe-Futi TFCA, a sub-TFCA of the Lubombo TFCA, is that a joint operational strategy for the Maputo Special Reserve/Tembe Elephant Park component was signed into force by the relevant authorities and approved by the Lubombo Commission on 28 March. This enables the two park management teams to undertake joint and collaborative activities.
- [Maputo Special Reserve 2013 Translocation](https://www.peaceparks.org/maputo-special-reserve-2013-translocation/) - The Mozambican government's translocation programme, a multi-year endeavour now in its third year of operation, recently saw the introduction of 78 wildebeest to Maputo Special Reserve. The plan is to restock the reserve with a founder population of 100 wildebeest during 2013.
- [Cross-Border Cooperation In The Lubombo TFCA Helps Marine Life](https://www.peaceparks.org/cross-border-cooperation-in-the-lubombo-tfca-helps-marine-life/) - In the early hours of 13 March 2014, a vessel ran aground at Ponta Mamoli in the Ponta do Ouro Partial Marine Reserve, the Mozambican component of the Ponta do Ouro-Kosi Bay TFCA in the Lubombo TFCA.
- [Opening Of Maputo Special Reserve Headquarters In The Lubombo TFCA](https://www.peaceparks.org/opening-of-maputo-special-reserve-headquarters-in-the-lubombo-tfca/) - Marking a milestone in the development of Maputo Special Reserve, its headquarters were opened by the Mozambican Minister of Tourism, Mr Carvalho Muaria on Friday, 14 February 2014. The headquarters, funded by the World Bank, include entrance gates at Futi and at Gala, both with a reception office, boom gate, kiosk and restrooms for visitors.
- [Aerial support for conservation operations in Mozambique](https://www.peaceparks.org/aerial-support-for-conservation-operations-in-mozambique/) - Two brand new Savannah airplanes have arrived in Mozambique for use by the country’s National Administration for Conservation Areas (ANAC). The planes will be used for the planning and execution of reserve development, conservation management and anti-poaching operations.
- [A New Honorary Patron](https://www.peaceparks.org/a-new-honorary-patron/) - Peace Parks Foundation is very pleased to announce that President Filipe Nyusi of Mozambique has kindly agreed to become an honorary patron of the foundation and, in accepting, said that Mozambique is committed to the preservation of the environment and to the efficient and sustainable use of natural resources, while promoting the development of communities and of Mozambique, as well as the harmonius co-existence between man and nature.
- [Protecting Turtles And Marine Life](https://www.peaceparks.org/protecting-turtles-and-marine-life/) - 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.
- [Protecting Turtles In Africa's Marine TFCA](https://www.peaceparks.org/protecting-turtles-in-africas-marine-tfca/) - Ponta do Ouro Partial Marine Reserve had another successful turtle monitoring season this year. The reserve comprises 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
- [Further Training To Protect Turtles](https://www.peaceparks.org/further-training-to-protect-turtles/) - From 25-26 November, Centro Terra Viva presented a refresher training course for the 46 turtle monitors who cover the area from Ponta do Ouro to Ponta Mucombo in Mozambique. The training comprised both theory and practical exercises and was held at Lar do Ouro in Ponta do Ouro and at the Milibangalala campsite. Also participating
- [Restocking National Parks As Part Of Transfrontier Conservation Development](https://www.peaceparks.org/restocking-national-parks-as-part-of-transfrontier-conservation-development/) - A further 573 animals have been translocated to Maputo Special Reserve and 310 to Zinave National Park. Following the first translocation of seven elephant from Maremani Nature Reserve in South Africa to Zinave National Park in October 2016, Mozambique has translocated 208 waterbuck, 53 reedbuck and 49 warthog from Gorongosa National Park to Zinave National
- [Rewilding Mozambique's Elephant Coast](https://www.peaceparks.org/rewilding-mozambiques-elephant-coast/) - As part of ongoing efforts to develop the Lubombo Transfrontier Conservation and Resource Area, a further 2 300 animals are being translocated to Maputo Special Reserve in Mozambique during 2017. As of today (17 August) just more than 50% of these animals have already been released: 281 zebra, 131 wildebeest, 50 kudu, 450 impala, 251
- [Further Support From KFW For Africa's Largest Transfrontier Conservation Area](https://www.peaceparks.org/further-support-from-kfw-for-africas-largest-transfrontier-conservation-area/) - This week, KfW demonstrated its continued commitment to the development of KAZA, through the signing of a new funding agreement of €15,5 million for the period 2018 to 2022.
- [Developing Sioma Ngwezi National Park In The Kaza TFCA](https://www.peaceparks.org/developing-sioma-ngwezi-national-park-in-the-kaza-tfca/) - From left is Prof. Andrew Nambota, representatives of the Barotse Royal Establishment, Mrs Pamela and Mr Neville Isdell next to the Bat Hawk microlight they donated, Minister Sylvia Masebo, Mr Werner Myburgh, Ms Chaze Simasiku, the District Commissioner for Sesheke, Mr Guy Robinson, the ZAWA chairman, with a community development officer and the park warden of Sioma Ngwezi National Park on the far right
- [Zebras Trek 500km In Africa's Longest Terrestrial Migration](https://www.peaceparks.org/zebras-trek-500km-in-africas-longest-terrestrial-migration/) - A population of zebra has just secured the number one spot for the longest big-mammal migration ever documented in Africa. The zebra travel along a 500-km round trip journey in an almost direct north-south axis between Namibia and Botswana in the Kavango Zambezi (KAZA) TFCA.
- [KAZA TFCA Univisa Now In Effect](https://www.peaceparks.org/kaza-tfca-univisa-now-in-effect/) - In a major step to enhance tourism to the world's largest terrestrial transfrontier conservation area, the governments of Zambia and Zimbabwe are today launching the Kavango Zambezi (KAZA) TFCA univisa.
- [New Headquarters For Sioma Ngwezi National Park](https://www.peaceparks.org/new-headquarters-for-sioma-ngwezi-national-park/) - Saturday, 30 January 2016 saw the official opening of the Sioma Ngwezi National Park headquarters in Zambia by Deputy Minister of Tourism and Arts, Mr Patrick Ngoma. Also participating in the ceremony was Mr Stephan Neu, KfW Country Director and Induna Inanduko of the Barotse Royal Establishment. Community members came out in full force to celebrate the opening.
- [Kaza TFCA Secretariat And Peace Parks Foundation Formalise Coorperation](https://www.peaceparks.org/kaza-tfca-secretariat-and-peace-parks-foundation-formalise-coorperation/) - The Kavango Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA TFCA) and Peace Parks Foundation have worked together since the inception of KAZA. On 8 April 2016, the KAZA Secretariat Executive Director, Dr Morris Mtsambiwa and Peace Parks Foundation CEO, Mr Werner Myburgh, signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to formalise the long-standing cooperation and partnership in the development of KAZA TFCA. The MoU provides direction on areas of collaboration.
- [Another €15.5 Milliion For Kavango Zambezi (KAZA) TFCA](https://www.peaceparks.org/another-e15-5-milliion-for-kavango-zambezi-kaza-tfca/) - On 8 March 2013, State Secretary Hans-Jürgen Beerfeltz of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) handed a symbolic cheque to the amount of €15.5 million to the Deputy Executive Secretary of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), Mr João Caholo, in presence of the government Ministers of the five countries partnering in the KAZA Transfrontier Conservation Area (TFCA).
- [Okavango Delta A World Heritage Site](https://www.peaceparks.org/okavango-delta-a-world-heritage-site/) - Congratulations Botswana! Botswana’s Okavango Delta became the 1 000th site inscribed on the World Heritage List on 22 June 2014. Okavango was inscribed as a natural site by Unesco's World Heritage Committee.
- [World Wildlife Day: Big Cats - Predators Under Threat](https://www.peaceparks.org/world-wildlife-day-big-cats-predators-under-threat/) - Panthera, supported by Peace Parks Foundation is focused on saving the African leopard.
- [Smart Training For Clever Conservation Management](https://www.peaceparks.org/smart-training-for-clever-conservation-management/) - Earlier this year PPF GIS technician, Denton Joachim, travelled to the Luengue-Luiana National Park which lies within the Angolan component of the of Kavango Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area to provide SMART training to 15 field rangers from various posts.
- [Park Receives First Vehicle In Almost 20 Years!](https://www.peaceparks.org/park-receives-first-vehicle-in-almost-20-years/) - Late in June, Peace Parks Foundation had the pleasure of delivering a Toyota Land Cruiser to Zambia's Department of National Parks and Wildlife for use in Zambia's Lukusuzi National Park,.
- [Training Black Rhino Monitors At Majete In Malawi](https://www.peaceparks.org/training-black-rhino-monitors-at-majete-in-malawi/) - In April 2013 Renias Mhlongo, senior tracker, and Alex van den Heever, senior tracker evaluator, from the SA College for Tourism Tracker Academy, were invited to train a group of black rhino monitors and game scouts at the Majete Wildlife Reserve in southern Malawi.
- [Cross-Border Collaboration In The Malawi-Zambia TFCA](https://www.peaceparks.org/cross-border-collaboration-in-the-malawi-zambia-tfca/) - A Malawi-Zambia TFCA conservation week event, entitled 'Collaborating towards conservation and sustainable livelihoods', was held in Malawi from 28 October to 1 November 2014.
- [President Peter Mutharika Of Malawi Becomes An Honorary Patron](https://www.peaceparks.org/president-peter-mutharika-of-malawi-becomes-an-honorary-patron/) - President Peter Mutharika of Malawi has honoured Peace Parks Foundation by agreeing to become an honorary patron of the foundation.
- [Desert Knights Mountain Bike Tour](https://www.peaceparks.org/desert-knights-mountain-bike-tour/) - The /Ai/Ais-Richtersveld Transfrontier Park's first Desert Knights mountain bike tour for 2017 took place from 7-13 April, with 46 participants from from Namibia and South Africa.
- [High-Angle Mountain Rescue Training](https://www.peaceparks.org/high-angle-mountain-rescue-training/) - The /Ai/Ais-Richtersveld Transfrontier Park is a desolate landscape with spectacular canyons and mountain passes. But for all their magnificence, these canyons with their sheer rock faces pose real dangers to the unwary hikers who like to test their mettle against the harsh elements.
- [Joint Training In The /AI/AIS-Richterveld Transfrontier Park](https://www.peaceparks.org/joint-training-in-the-ai-ais-richterveld-transfrontier-park/) - The /Ai/Ais-Richtersveld Transfrontier Park's management committee is always looking for innovative ideas to lure visitors to the park and the idea of kayak trails was mooted. The image of kayak trails in the arid barrenness of the transfrontier park may be difficult to visualise until one sees the mighty Orange River flowing through the desolate
- [2015 Desert Knights Mountain Bike Tour](https://www.peaceparks.org/2015-desert-knights-mountain-bike-tour/) - The annual Desert Knights mountain bike tour was held for the fifth time in the /Ai/Ais-Richtersveld Transfrontier Park from 7-13 September this year. This unique adventure consists of five days of cycling covering 280 kilometres and a day of paddling along the Orange River. The tour started at the Hobas Campsite and 118 cyclists lined up to head out onto the newly created single track to the Fish River Canyon lookout point on the first day’s route.
- [Cross-Border School Visit](https://www.peaceparks.org/cross-border-school-visit/) - The /Ai/Ais-Richtersveld Transfrontier Park experienced a first when prefects from a primary school in Oranjemund in Namibia came to visit from 16 - 18 January.
- [Desert Kayak Trails Set To Be Launched](https://www.peaceparks.org/desert-kayak-trails-set-to-be-launched/) - Plans are afoot to officially launch the fully-guided and catered Desert Kayak Trails in June this year.
- [WILDRUN™ Crosses Borders](https://www.peaceparks.org/wildrun-crosses-borders/) - Next year, the Richtersveld Wildrun™ will be the first cross-border trail running event in the world; a challenging five-days from South Africa to Namibia in the heart of the /Ai/Ais-Richtersveld Transfrontier Park.
- [Desert Knights Tour Now A Permanent Feature](https://www.peaceparks.org/desert-knights-tour-now-a-permanent-feature/) - The second Desert Knights tour of 2015 was held in the /Ai/Ais-Richtersveld Transfrontier Park from 24-30 September. The demand has been such that the park's management committee, the hosts of the tour, this year set two tour dates.
- [A Unique Adventure – Desert Kayak Trails](https://www.peaceparks.org/a-unique-adventure-desert-kayak-trails/) - During the Easter weekend, the Desert Kayak Trails hosted the first large group of participants down the magnificent Orange River, within the parameters of the /Ai /Ais-Richtersveld Transfrontier Park.
- [Mountain Biking In The /AI/AIS-Ritchersveld Transfrontier Park](https://www.peaceparks.org/moutain-biking-in-the-ai-ais-richtersveld-transfrontier-park/) - The first Desert Knights Mountain Bike Tour for 2016 was held from 18-24 April, with 74 people from Namibia and South Africa, aged between 13 and 65 years of age, participating. The event proved especially popular with the four families cycling this year.
- [Richtersveld WILDRUN™](https://www.peaceparks.org/richtersveld-wildrun/) - The rugged mountains of the Richtersveld National Park proved to be the perfect backdrop for the 57 trail runners who set out on the inaugural 150 kms Richtersveld Wildrun™ which was held over four days in June this year. Some of South Africa’s top trail runners lined up at the start in Sendelingsdrift on 4 June alongside trail running enthusiasts from around the country and as far afield as Egypt, Mauritius, the United States and neighbouring Namibia and Zimbabwe.
- [Wildlife Species Return To The Richtersveld](https://www.peaceparks.org/wildlife-species-return-to-the-richtersveld/) - September saw the re-introduction of more wildlife to the South African component of the /Ai-/Ais-Richtersveld Transfrontier Park. This year was an especially exciting one, as red hartebeest were returned to the Richtersveld for the first time in 179 years. The 21 red hartebeest were accompanied by six gemsbok and, in a first ever for the park, six zebra.
- [Tracker Academy Expands To The Kalahari](https://www.peaceparks.org/tracker-academy-expands-to-the-kalahari/) - We are excited to announce that SA College for Tourism Tracker Academy has opened a training base on South Africa's largest private game reserve, Tswalu Kalahari reserve in the Northern Cape province of South Africa.
- [Astounding Success Of Erin](https://www.peaceparks.org/859-2/) - Tourism Officer for the Khomani San, Dirk Pienaar, says something meaningful has been started from nothing by Peace Parks Foundation, which manages the ‘Khomani San – Living in Peace’ project, sponsored by Rotary International and the German government.
- [ǂKhomani Cultural Landscape A World Heritage Site](https://www.peaceparks.org/ǂkhomani-cultural-landscape-a-world-heritage-site/) - On 8 July 2017, the UNESCO World Heritage Committee inscribed the ǂKhomani Cultural Landscape in South Africa on the list of World Heritage Sites. The ǂKhomani Cultural Landscape is located at the border with Botswana and Namibia in Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park.
- [SA College For Tourism Trackers Academy Success](https://www.peaceparks.org/sa-college-for-tourism-trackers-academy-success/) - Every year 90 young women and 16 young men – all unemployed and from impoverished rural backgrounds – are sponsored for a year-long training course at the SA College for Tourism in hospitality service skills and tracking skills respectively. Athenkosi Diba and Ernest Mnisi, both from poor rural areas, were given the opportunity to change their lives by being admitted to the tracker skills training course.
- [More Wildlife For Erin Game Ranch](https://www.peaceparks.org/more-wildlife-for-erin-game-ranch/) - The South African National Parks (SANParks) wildlife capture team recently delivered 13 ostriches, 14 eland and five giraffe to the !Khomani San’s Erin Game Ranch, south of Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park.
- [‡KHOMANI San’s Erin Tented Camp Now Open](https://www.peaceparks.org/‡khomani-sans-erin-tented-camp-now-open/) - Providing tourists with an exciting alternative to the campsites and traditional bush camp, Erin Tented Camp was opened on 13 May 2015. The camp is situated on Erin Game Ranch, south of the Ae!Hai Kalahari Heritage Park in Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park.
- [SANPARKS Donation Of Zebra To ‡KHOMANI SAN](https://www.peaceparks.org/sanparks-donation-of-zebra-to-‡khomani-san/) - The ‡Khomani San of the !Ae!Hai Kalahari Heritage Park in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park were delighted when SANParks recently brought nine, and then another 11, zebra to their Erin Game Ranch. Erin is one of the farms that the ‡Khomani San regained as part of the 2002 land claim settlement. On 13 May 2015, the
- [Khomani San Rising](https://www.peaceparks.org/khomani-san-rising/) - Connecting People to Nature: World Environment Day - 5 June Descendents of the original inhabitants of southern Africa, the Khomani San of the Kalahari are revered for their intimate knowledge of bush lore. These skills are now being transformed into sustainable livelihoods for this community, on the vast tracts of land they own in and
- [A bright future for the ‡Khomani San](https://www.peaceparks.org/a-bright-future-for-the-‡khomani-san/) - Living amongst the red sand dunes of the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park are two of the planet’s oldest communities known as the Mier and ‡Khomani San. They are some of the last remaining original people of South Africa’s Kalahari Desert. Historically living as hunter-gatherers, these communities are expert trackers and are known for their ancient and deep understanding of maintaining a balanced approach when living off the land.
- [Solar Powered To Success](https://www.peaceparks.org/solar-powered-to-success/) - The Kasaya School in the Simalaha Community Conservancy is a modest building. Yet inside great positive transformation is happening – and it’s impacting the whole community.
- [Conservation Agriculture Farmers On The Move](https://www.peaceparks.org/conservation-agriculture-farmers-on-the-move/) - Twenty contact farmers were each presented with a bicycle to allow them to travel with more ease between the fields of the various farmers they have trained and continue to assist.
- [Living In Harmony](https://www.peaceparks.org/living-in-harmony/) - People, livestock and wildlife living together harmoniously became a reality with the establishment of Simalaha Community Conservancy in western Zambia in 2012. Since then, not one animal has been poached. The resident community and game scouts make sure of it Wildlife returns to Simalaha In 2012, a 240 km² sanctuary in the 1800 km² Simalaha
- [Carlos Muchave: his legacy will live on](https://www.peaceparks.org/carlos-muchave-his-legacy-will-live-on/) - It is with great sadness that Peace Parks Foundation must bid farewell to a most valued employee in Zinave National Park. Yesterday, Carlos Muchave, who worked as the Head of Anti-poaching Operations, passed away suddenly after a short illness.
- [Major Loss To The Conservation World](https://www.peaceparks.org/major-loss-to-the-conservation-world/) - Peace Parks Foundation is deeply saddened by the passing of Dr Anthony Hall-Martin, conservation director of African Parks, and well known and loved by everyone involved in conservation.
- [Joint World Ranger Day Commemoration](https://www.peaceparks.org/joint-world-ranger-day-commemoration/) - On 31 July 2014 a World Ranger Day ceremony was held to commemorate the many rangers killed or injured in the line of their duty in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park.
- [NEW GRADUATES COMMIT TO BEING LEADERS IN CONSERVATION](https://www.peaceparks.org/new-graduates-commit-to-being-leaders-in-conservation/) - Leadership and man doing more to ameliorate his relationship with nature was the theme for this year’s Higher Education and Training (HET) Wildlife Area Management Qualification graduation at the Southern African Wildlife College (SAWC). The graduands, hailing from seven countries, were honoured for their hard work and commitment to become better managers of our natural
- [WiFi For Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park](https://www.peaceparks.org/wifi-for-kgalagadi-transfrontier-park/) - The original transfrontier park in southern Africa, Kgalagadi, is leading the way again in practical joint steps aimed at developing collaboration between the partner countries. Kgalagadi now boasts a WiFi system at the Twee Rivieren/Two Rivers entrance gate and rest camp.
- [Kgalagadi Lion Research Project](https://www.peaceparks.org/kgalagadi-lion-research-project/) - Thanks to a donation from the Turner Foundation, Peace Parks Foundation is supporting a Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park lion research project, implemented under the auspices of South African National Parks (SANParks) and the Cape Peninsula University of Technology and supported by a number of partners and sponsors.
- [Kgalagadi Now Has WiFi](https://www.peaceparks.org/kgalagadi-now-has-wifi/) - In follow-up to the previous report, when WiFi was installed at Twee Rivieren/Two Rivers entrance gate and rest camp, the service has now been extended.
- [Seamless Management Of The Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park](https://www.peaceparks.org/seamless-management-of-the-kgalagadi-transfrontier-park/) - In Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, staff from Botswana and South Africa work together to ensure that visitors adhere to park regulations in order to protect the fragile desert environment and its wildlife.
- [KGALAGADI LION RESEARCH](https://www.peaceparks.org/kgalagadi-lion-research/) - Visitors come from far and wide to see the magnificent lion of the Kgalagadi, the apex predator of the transfrontier park. Following an outbreak of canine distemper in 2009, a population survey detected an alarming gender bias towards males in all age classes. This predicted a pending lion population collapse. Researchers suggested several explanations, one
- [Tour De Wilderness Launches Cycle Route For 2015 Nedbank Tour De Tuli](https://www.peaceparks.org/tour-de-wilderness-launches-cycle-route-for-2015-nedbank-tour-de-tuli/) - Tour de Wilderness, the organiser of the acclaimed annual Nedbank Tour de Tuli mountain bike event, has launched the route for 2015, which will see 350 riders cycle across almost 300km of challenging and remote terrain in Botswana, Zimbabwe and South Africa in the Greater Mapungubwe TFCA between 13 and 18 August.
- [Three Countries Jointly Celebrate World Ranger Day](https://www.peaceparks.org/three-countries-jointly-celebrate-world-ranger-day/) - n an event arranged by the Greater Mapungubwe TFCA's park management committee, Botswana, South Africa and Zimbabwe this year jointly celebrated World Ranger Day on 31 July. Participants included representatives of the park management authorities, army, police, K-9 unit, Working on Fire, the honorary ranger and ranger corps. Also participating was the Mustown Theatre group, which raises awareness for conservation among communities.
- [Traversing Three Countries On The Run](https://www.peaceparks.org/traversing-three-countries-on-the-run/) - Earlier this year, Greater Mapungubwe Transfrontier Conservation Area (TFCA) hosted the second Mapungubwe Transfrontier Wildrun®. The 76 participants were mostly from South Africa, but also from 10 other countries, including Australia, Sweden and the USA. The CEO of the Beit Bridge Rural Development Council, Mr Peter Moyo, opened proceedings with a very warm and heartfelt
- [Working Together For Greater Mapungubwe TFCA](https://www.peaceparks.org/working-together-for-greater-mapungubwe-tfca/) - On 5 March, Mapungubwe National Park staff hosted environmental teachers from Botswana for a successful cleaning campaign. The 13 teachers were welcomed by Reckson Mashaba and Johannes Masalesa at Pont Drift border post.
- [CITW Hosts Second Annual Tri-Nations Camp At Mapungubwe](https://www.peaceparks.org/citw-hosts-second-annual-tri-nations-camp-at-mapungubwe/) - Children in the Wilderness (CITW) is proud to have hosted yet another successful Tri-Nations Camp at Mapungubwe National Park, in partnership with Peace Parks Foundation and the Greater Mapungubwe Transfrontier Conservation Area (TFCA) Trilateral Technical Committee. From 12 to 15 December 2016, the camp saw 15 learners from Botswana, South Africa and Zimbabwe enjoy three
- [/AI/AIS-Richtersveld Park Manager Excels](https://www.peaceparks.org/ai-ais-richtersveld-park-manager-excels/) - The /Ai/Ais-Richtersveld Transfrontier Park features magnificent barren landscapes, the world’s second largest canyon, the Fish River Canyon, and the richest succulent flora on earth. Looking after this unique, though harsh, area are a number of dedicated staff.
- [Helping Two Iconic Species Live In Harmony](https://www.peaceparks.org/helping-two-iconic-species-live-in-harmony/) - Gonarezhou National Park management is stepping in to save one of the park’s iconic species from another. As the elephant population in the park continues to grow, so does their impact on their surrounding habitat.
- [GONAREZHOU NATIONAL PARK MEETS THREAT HEAD-ON](https://www.peaceparks.org/gonarezhou-national-park-meets-threat-head-on/) - Though Gonarezhou’s elephant population is still doing well, management is tackling the potential threat of wildlife crime head-on. The budding ranger corps is increasing, and rising to the challenge of protecting Zimbabwe’s iconic wildlife.
- [Mana Pools: Proudly Protecting Zimbabwe Wildlife](https://www.peaceparks.org/mana-pools-proudly-protecting-zimbabwe-wildlife/) - Wildlife crime is an extremely complex problem that requires multiple levels of intervention to solve. It is well-known that there are three critical components any anti-poaching strategy depends on: software, hardware and the human beings that operate them. At the Lower Zambezi Anti-Poaching Operations Centre much attention has been paid to promoting a sense of
- [Tracker Academy Lead Tracker Course](https://www.peaceparks.org/tracker-academy-lead-tracker-course/) - In July 2013 the SA College for Tourism Tracker Academy conducted its inaugural Lead Tracker course. Recognised by the Field Guides Association of Southern Africa (FGASA), the Lead Tracker qualification is the most advanced level of tracking offered by the Tracker Academy.
- [Understanding Birds Calls](https://www.peaceparks.org/understanding-birds-calls/) - The SA College for Tourism Tracker Academy has joined forces with Professor Derek Engelbrecht from the University of Limpopo to formally record bird alarm calls, with the aim of better interpreting these calls.
- [Two Tracker Academy Graduates Track Jaguars In Brazil](https://www.peaceparks.org/two-tracker-academy-graduates-track-jaguars-in-brazil/) - On 28 June 2013, two 2012 SA College for Tourism Tracker Academy graduates, Andrea Mathebula and Richard Mthabine, left South Africa for the Caiman Ecological Refuge in the Pantanal region of Brazil, to participate in a pioneering project of habituating jaguars through traditional tracking means.
- [Beautiful Animal Sightings by training of the SA College For Tourism Tracker Academy](https://www.peaceparks.org/beautiful-animal-sightings-by-training-of-the-sa-college-for-tourism-tracker-academy/) - Trainees of the SA College for Tourism have had an incredible week of animal sightings at the start of their traditional bushveld savannah biome training at Londolozi Game Reserve, bordering the Kruger National Park. On Monday, not long after we left camp at 5:30am we heard elephants trumpeting and vocalising intensively. We thought the herd
- [SA College For Tourism Tracker Academy Graduates](https://www.peaceparks.org/sa-college-for-tourism-tracker-academy-graduates/) - A further group of SA College for Tourism Tracker Academy trainees graduated this week at Londolozi Game Reserve, completing their full-time one-year tracking course. The group consists of seven tracker students from the Eastern Cape, Northern Cape, Limpopo and Mpumalanga provinces in South Africa, as well as from Zambia! Five of the students obtained the
- [Treaty Establishing The Malawi-Zambia Transfrontier Conservation Area (TFCA) Signed](https://www.peaceparks.org/treaty-establishing-the-malawi-zambia-transfrontier-conservation-area-tfca-signed/) - Marking another major step in southern Africa’s transfrontier conservation development, His Excellency the President of the Republic of Malawi, Prof Arthur Peter Mutharika, and His Excellency the President of the Republic of Zambia, Mr Edgar Chagwa Lungu on 7 July 2015 signed the treaty that formally establishes the Malawi-Zambia Transfrontier Conservation Area (TFCA) at Sanjika Palace in Blantyre, Malawi.
- [Wildlife Diversity In Limpopo National Park](https://www.peaceparks.org/wildlife-diversity-in-limpopo-national-park/) - Two PhD researchers and ecologists have documented a large diversity of wildlife species in Limpopo National Park with the use of camera-traps. The 49 mammal species above 3.0 kg snapped include bat-eared fox, aardwolf, African wild dog, serval, giraffe, zebra, roan, eland and sable. Leah Andresen and Kristoffer Everatt have been conducting scientific research on
- [First Trail Runners Join The Big 5 For Inaugural Mapungubwe Transfrontier WILDRUN®](https://www.peaceparks.org/first-trail-runners-join-the-big-5-for-inaugural-mapungubwe-transfrontier-wildrun/) - Strict instructions, “Run as a herd, stick together, keep your eyes open, the rangers will be at the front and the back – listen to them,” marked the start of the first ever Mapungubwe Transfrontier Wildrun® through Big 5 territory in Southern Africa, which saw a group of 37 intrepid runners and rangers traverse the Limpopo-Shashe basin over three days, covering 90 km of the Botswana, South Africa and Zimbabwe conservation cooperative called the Greater Mapungubwe Transfrontier Conservation Area (TFCA).
- [Furs For Life Documentary To Premiere On 18 June](https://www.peaceparks.org/furs-for-life-documentary-to-premiere-on-18-june/) - A full-length documentary about the Furs for Life project is set to premiere at the Durban International Film Festival on 18 June 2016. Supported by Cartier, Peace Parks Foundation and Panthera are working through Panthera’s Furs for Life project to conserve the world’s most persecuted big cat – the leopard. The leopard, an emblematic species
- [Peace Parks Foundation Celebrates 20th Anniversary](https://www.peaceparks.org/peace-parks-foundation-celebrates-20th-anniversary/) - Twenty years ago today, Peace Parks Foundation was founded by HRH Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, Nelson Mandela and Dr Anton Rupert to facilitate the establishment of peace parks, or transfrontier conservation areas (TFCAs), in southern Africa. Southern Africa’s peace parks today incorporate over half of the declared conservation estate in the region. At over
- [The Leopard Is Thrown A Lifeline](https://www.peaceparks.org/the-leopard-is-thrown-a-lifeline/) - In time for World Wildlife Day, Peace Parks Foundation has joined forces with Panthera, a global wild cat conservation organisation, in a new partnership to protect and revive southern Africa’s leopard populations.
- [Shania Twain And Panthera Launch The #IFAKEIT Social Media Campaign To Save Leopards](https://www.peaceparks.org/shania-twain-and-panthera-launch-the-ifakeit-social-media-campaign-to-save-leopards/) - New York, NY - International superstar Shania Twain and Panthera, a global wild cat conservation organization, have launched #IFAKEIT - a social media campaign to raise awareness for one of fashion's most revered but underrepresented icons - the leopard.
- [Acknowledging The Region's Field Rangers](https://www.peaceparks.org/acknowledging-the-regions-field-rangers/) - On World Ranger Day, which is celebrated on the 31st of July, Peace Parks Foundation launched an appeal for funding to support the region's field rangers, who are playing a vital role in protecting southern Africa's natural resources.
- [Training Conservation Staff In GIS And GPS](https://www.peaceparks.org/training-conversation-staff-in-gis-and-gps/) - The Foundation has been offering basic Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Global Positioning Systems (GPS) training at the Southern Africa Wildlife College (SAWC) for the past 13 years. The value of GIS as a conservation tool is thereby shared with fellow conservationists and environmental organisations in the region.
- [Field Ranger Refresher Training Completed](https://www.peaceparks.org/field-ranger-refresher-training-completed/) - Limpopo National Park recently completed refresher training for 24 field rangers.
- [World Ranger Day](https://www.peaceparks.org/world-ranger-day/) - Field rangers in Africa often find themselves in the middle of war zones and other challenging conditions, including experiencing pressure from the communities in which they live. During the training of field rangers, African Field Ranger Training Services, a division of the Southern African Wildlife College, focuses on preparing and developing individuals to meet these
- [GIS Benefitting Conservation](https://www.peaceparks.org/gis-benefitting-conservation/) - The Peace Parks Foundation Geographic Information Systems (GIS) team recently spent time at the Southern African Wildlife College to train the Higher Education and Training protected area management students, who are already employed by the region's conservation agencies. The course exposed students to an array of GIS techniques and applications and the advantages these could
- [A woman At The Conservation Frontline](https://www.peaceparks.org/a-woman-at-the-conservation-frontline/) - At 32 years old, Lucrescencia Macuacua is one of three women who not only completed this year’s ranger training course in Limpopo National Park, but the second highest scoring candidate in the class. No small achievement considering that the course is known to be one of the toughest, most challenging and male dominant ranger training
- [News From The South African Wildlife College](https://www.peaceparks.org/news-from-the-southern-african-wildlife-college-2/) - Open the PDF for news on the Southern African Wildlife College's events, courses and students.
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- [College Trains Anti-Poaching Dogs](https://www.peaceparks.org/1195-2/) - A key factor that has added to the success in arrests of poachers in the area west of the Kruger National Park has been the use of trained dogs. The Southern African Wildlife College now has a canine anti-poaching training unit, with dog kennels and a full-time professional dog master. Four Malinois, 11 Hounds and
- [The Smart Way To Combat Wildlife Crime](https://www.peaceparks.org/the-smart-way-to-combat-wildlife-crime/) - Globally, the illegal wildlife trade is valued at around $19 billion annually. Species are being slaughtered at a rate that will see many become extinct in our lifetime. Africa’s elephant population has declined by an estimated 111 000 in the past decade primarily due to poaching, according to the IUCN’s African Elephant Status Report, just
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- [Southern African Wildlife College Wins M&G Skills For Sustainability Award](https://www.peaceparks.org/southern-african-wildlife-college-wins-mg-skills-for-sustainability-award/) - The Southern African Wildlife College is one of the winners of the prestigious Mail & Guardian 'Greening the Future' awards.
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- [Youth Environmental Service Students Graduate At The Southern African Wildlife College](https://www.peaceparks.org/youth-environmental-service-students-graduate-at-the-southern-african-wildlife-college/) - Recently 86 Youth Environmental Service students, funded by the South African Department of Environmental affairs, completed a year of experiential learning. This marked the beginning of a new chapter for them, as they will now need to apply their skills in their prospective work environments.
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- [HRH Prince Harry Visits The Southern African Wildlife College](https://www.peaceparks.org/hrh-prince-harry-visits-the-southern-african-wildlife-college/) - The Southern African Wildlife College (SAWC) was privileged to be included in HRH Prince Harry’s visit to South Africa as part of a Royal Tour, which included stops in Lesotho, Cape Town, Durban, the Kruger National Park and Johannesburg. Following his visit to the Kruger National Park, on 2 December 2015 he met with students at the College’s Field Ranger training base and then went on to meet with the graduands of the Wildlife Area Management training programme.
- [Southern African Wildlife College Awarded Significant Grant](https://www.peaceparks.org/southern-african-wildlife-college-awarded-significant-grant/) - Following the visit of HRH Prince Harry to the Southern African Wildlife College in December 2015, a grant of £370 000 was awarded to the college towards strengthening capacity and increasing training opportunities at this SADC-recognised centre of specialisation in conservation education, training and skills development.
- [New Appointments To The Southern African Wildlife College Board Of Directors](https://www.peaceparks.org/new-appointments-to-the-southern-african-wildlife-college-board-of-directors/) - The Southern African Wildlife College NPC’s (1996/005726/08) board of directors is proud to announce the appointment of Dr Bartolomeu Soto, director-general of the National Administration of Conservation Areas (Administracao Nacional de Areas de Conservacao - ANAC) in Mozambique, as chairman of the college board. Dr Soto has been a director of the board since the college’s inception and brings a wealth of experience and historical knowledge to the table.
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- [New Field Ranger Base Operational](https://www.peaceparks.org/new-field-ranger-base-operational/) - Jointly funded by the German Federal Ministry for Cooperation and Development, through KfW, and Agence Française de Développement, the construction of Limpopo National Park’s new field ranger base at Mapai Gate was completed towards the end of 2012. The base was constructed by the park’s infrastructure team and includes 16 separate accommodation rooms, an operational office for the northern region, a storeroom and a central meeting and training room.
- [Africa's Biodiversity Is In Good Hands](https://www.peaceparks.org/africas-biodiversity-is-in-good-hands/) - This year the Southern African Wildlife College was privileged to welcome Senior Chief Inyambo Yeta from the Simalaha Community Conservancy in Zambia to the graduation of its protected area management students at the higher education and training level.
- [Limpopo National Park Special Anti-Poaching Unit Deployed](https://www.peaceparks.org/limpopo-national-park-special-anti-poaching-unit-deployed/) - On 9 December 2013 the passing out parade for Limpopo National Park's special anti-poaching unit of 30 expressly trained field rangers was held at the park's Aguia Pesqueira (Fish Eagle) camp.
- [Establishment Of A Special Anti-Poaching Unit In Limpopo National Park](https://www.peaceparks.org/establishment-of-a-special-anti-poaching-unit-in-limpopo-national-park/) - As one of the strategies to counter the increase in rhino poaching, Limpopo National Park, the Mozambican component of Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park (GLTP), has started training a special anti-poaching unit of 30 rangers.
- [Call To Combine Efforts Create Partnerships And Pool Resources If Conservation In Africa Is To Succeed](https://www.peaceparks.org/call-to-combine-efforts-create-partnerships-and-pool-resources-if-conservation-in-africa-is-to-succeed/) - Issued by: Jeanné Poultney | Marketing & Fundraising - The Southern African Wildlife College December 2014: The burgeoning poaching onslaught was the prime topic this year when 48 students from seven different countries across the southern African region graduated from the Southern African Wildlife College’s (SAWC’s) Higher and Advanced Certificate Programme in Nature Conservation. Addressing
- [GIS & Land-Use Planning Training](https://www.peaceparks.org/gis-land-use-planning-training/) - The Peace Parks Foundation GIS team recently visited the Southern African Wildlife College to train the Higher Education and Training protected area management students. The objective of the training is to expose students to GIS and to empower them to do their field work more effectively. The first module is an introduction to GIS software, which lasts two weeks, followed by a week-long module that focuses more on the application of the GIS tool for land-use planning.
- [Conservation Across Borders](https://www.peaceparks.org/conservation-across-borders/) - When neighbours take hands, good things can happen, as has been proven time and again when staff and management of the Kruger and Limpopo national parks work together.
- [Cross-Border Collaboration Strengthens Counter-Poaching Efforts In Mozambique](https://www.peaceparks.org/cross-border-collaboration-strengthens-counter-poaching-efforts-in-mozambique/) - As part of its commitment to further bilateral cooperation with Mozambique in the war against wildlife crime, South Africa presented Mozambique with a donation of equipment to the value of R2 660 000 (MT 8 425 705) to aid in strengthening Mozambique’s environmental law enforcement efforts, and support the rangers and police corps who dedicate their efforts to the cause every day.
- [Education, Dedication And Commitment Are Key If Conservation In Africa Is To Succeed](https://www.peaceparks.org/education-dedication-and-commitment-are-key-if-conservation-in-africa-is-to-succeed/) - As the year draws to a close, the Southern African Wildlife College’s (SAWC) students were once again recognized for their achievements. The Higher Education and Training (HET) Wildlife Area Management Qualification students, who hail from nine countries including Congo Brazzaville, Ethiopia, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Zimbabwe and Zambia, celebrated their graduation in a ceremony that honoured their dedication and commitment to conservation and their studies.
- [Ezemvelo – Passionately Protecting Our Rhinos](https://www.peaceparks.org/ezemvelo-passionately-protecting-our-rhinos/) - As the region that possesses the rhino population with the farthest reaching genetic pool, the protection of rhino in KwaZulu-Natal is of critical importance to ensure the viability of future rhino population growth efforts in South Africa. This, coupled with an unabashed passion for conservation and the protection of our country’s natural heritage, is what drives the men and women of Ezemvelo KwaZulu-Natal Wildlife (Ezemvelo) to take on the battle against wildlife crime with unwavering dedication.
- [Using GIS For Conservation](https://www.peaceparks.org/using-gis-for-conservation/) - The Peace Parks Foundation GIS team recently visited the Southern African Wildlife College to train the Higher Education and Training protected area management students. The objective of the training is to expose students to Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and to empower them to do their field work more effectively. The training focused on GIS, using various open source software programmes and an introduction to the Spatial Monitoring and Reporting Tool (SMART).
- [256 Unemployed Youth Trained And Placed In Jobs Over Two Years](https://www.peaceparks.org/256-unemployed-youth-trained-and-placed-in-jobs-over-two-years/) - A project awarded by the South African National Treasury’s Jobs Fund to the Southern African Wildlife College (SAWC) will ensure that 256 unemployed youth are trained and placed in permanent employment. The majority of the learners will, on graduation from a year-long skills development programme, have completed a National Certificate in Nature Conservation: Resource Guardianship, with 10 of the learners - all females - completing the Skills Programme Dangerous Game Site Guide.
- [Simultaneous Graduation Of 119 Field Rangers](https://www.peaceparks.org/simultaneous-graduation-of-119-field-rangers/) - The Southern African Wildlife College’s recent field ranger graduation ceremony was remarkable for two reasons - it was the biggest in South African history, with 119 National Certificates in Nature Conservation: Resource Guardianship being awarded, and half of the recipients were female. The ceremony marked the culmination of a 12-month intensive training programme that was
- [TRAINING FOR CONSERVATION AND BIODIVERSITY PROTECTION](https://www.peaceparks.org/training-for-conservation-and-biodiversity-protection/) - Dr Bartolomeu Soto, Director-General of the National Administration of Conservation Areas (ANAC) in Mozambique and the CEO of the Southern African Wildlife College (SAWC), Theresa Sowry, recently signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU), which will facilitate the effective implementation of the objectives and principles established in the Convention on Biological Diversity, the SADC Protocol on
- [Dynamic Alliance Established To Bolster Rhino Anti-Poaching Efforts](https://www.peaceparks.org/dynamic-alliance-established-to-bolster-rhino-anti-poaching-efforts/) - On the western boundary of Kruger National Park (KNP), private and community-owned game reserves - represented as the Greater Kruger Environmental Protection Foundation (GKEPF) - have joined forces with conservation agencies, non-profit organisations and security service providers to bolster conservation management and realise increased environmental asset protection through integrated anti-poaching and security strategies across the
- [Unlocking The Potential Of Zinave National Park](https://www.peaceparks.org/unlocking-the-potential-of-zinave-national-park/) - Having been declared a protected area in 1972, only to then be ravaged by sixteen years of civil war from 1977-1992, the sun now rises over a different Zinave National Park in Mozambique. The implementation of strategies to unlock the potential of the Park through the augmentation of the park management capacity, reintroduction of wildlife,
- [More Rangers For Mozambique](https://www.peaceparks.org/more-ranger-for-mozambique/) - On 16 May 2018, 39 recruits, three of them female, celebrated their graduation as rangers during a passout parade held in the Limpopo National Park, Mozambique. This follows the successful completion of a gruelling eight-week ranger training course presented by the Southern African Wildlife College, that prepared the new recruits for their stand against wildlife
- [Guarding Limpopo National Park's Carnivores](https://www.peaceparks.org/guarding-limpopo-national-parks-carnivores/) - A new carnivore protection ranger force, the Limpopo Lion Protection Team, has had significant successes in the first few weeks of their deployment in the Limpopo National Park, a core component of the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Conservation Area. Recently graduated from a ranger training course offered by the Southern African Wildlife College, these well-trained men
- [Joining Forces To Develop Banhine National Park](https://www.peaceparks.org/joining-forces-to-develop-banhine-national-park/) - On the heels of a second partnership agreement signed between Peace Parks Foundation and Mozambique’s National Administration for Conservation Areas (ANAC) to further develop Maputo Special Reserve and Ponta do Ouro Marine Reserve (Zinave National Park was the first agreement signed in 2015), the two organisations formalised another long-standing alliance in developing Banhine National Park
- [Chemucane Ecotourist Lodge Under Construction](https://www.peaceparks.org/chemucane-ecotourist-lodge-under-construction/) - The construction of the Chemucane community lodge in Maputo Special Reserve, featuring nine exclusive guest suites, with two family and seven double-bedded units, is well under way.
- [Honouring Our Rangers](https://www.peaceparks.org/honouring-our-rangers/) - Around the globe, park rangers serve on the front line in the battle to protect the natural and cultural treasures found in protected areas. The war on poaching is not only decimating iconic species such as rhino, elephant and lion, but has sadly also resulted in well over 1 000 rangers losing their lives to ruthless poachers over the past decade.
- [Community Development Facility Making Progress](https://www.peaceparks.org/community-development-facility-making-progress/) - Significant progress has been made in the Community Development Facility in the Mozambican component of the Lubombo TFCA.
- [Chemucane Community Students Trained](https://www.peaceparks.org/chemucane-community-students-trained/) - 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 for Tourism graduate who runs her own small accommodation establishment and hospitality training centre, this year temporarily joined the college to provide
- [Crowning Another Successful Year](https://www.peaceparks.org/crowning-another-successful-year/) - SA College for Tourism (SACT) ended its Crystal Anniversary Year on a high note on Friday, 20 November, when it celebrated the graduation of 89 young women and 16 young men from rural southern Africa, with national certificates in hospitality services and tracking animals in the wild respectively. Graduation Day was preceded on Thursday evening
- [A Truly Responsible Tourist Destination](https://www.peaceparks.org/a-truly-responsible-tourist-destination/) - Anvil Bay is a private and exclusive barefoot beach camp on a rare untouched stretch of coastal wilderness in Mozambique’s Maputo Special Reserve. The resort is owned by the local community and operated by a trust established for the community’s benefit.
- [Caring For Children](https://www.peaceparks.org/caring-for-children/) - The SA College for Tourism students spent their Mandela Day at the Vuyani Safe Haven child and youth care centre for vulnerable children in need of care. They made vetkoek (popular deep-fried dough cakes) and soup for the 38 children and then spent the afternoon playing with them. Vuyani thanked the college, saying: "Nelson Mandela
- [HELPING STUDENTS COPE](https://www.peaceparks.org/helping-students-cope/) - Apart from the official training programme to equip them to work in the hospitality industry, students at the SA College for Tourism are also assisted in other ways. During their orientation week, a national bank presented a seminar on personal finance, guiding students on better banking and personal finance options. During the same week, the
- [Tracker Manual Released](https://www.peaceparks.org/tracker-manual-released/) - It is with great excitement that we announce our newly published Tracker Manual. The book is a complete wildlife tracking field guide authored by Tracker Academy’s founding trainers, Alex van den Heever, Karel Benadie and Renias Mhlongo. What began as the student textbook is now available to the public. The Tracker Manual contains decades of
- [Empowering Rural Communities Through The Sharing Economy](https://www.peaceparks.org/empowering-rural-communities-through-the-sharing-economy/) - Mandela Day We celebrate this Mandela Day* by sharing one of many stories about people's lives changing for the better. Nelson Mandela, founding patron of Peace Parks Foundation, said: 'What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that
- [120 Graduates Excel In Hospitality And Wildlife Tracking](https://www.peaceparks.org/120-graduates-excel-in-hospitality-and-wildlife-tracking/) - This year, 96 women from eight Southern African Development Community member states – Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe – graduated at SA College for Tourism (SACT). They were joined by 24 young men who had completed 12 months of nationally accredited training in tracking animals in the wild, offered by
- [K9 Conservation](https://www.peaceparks.org/k9-conservation/) - The SA College for Tourism Tracker Academy continues to successfully train highly skilled trackers who are extremely sought after in the conservation sector. The Academy has shown that traditional tracking skills have a tremendously valuable role to play in modern conservation. Since the Academy’s inception in 2010, 100% of the tracker graduates have found permanent employment in the animal monitoring and habituation, eco-tourism and wildlife protection sectors. Two graduates have even been contracted to start a jaguar habituation project in the Pantanal in Brazil, thus proving that tracking skills can have an impact far beyond the shores of Africa.
- [Tracker Academy Trainees Excel](https://www.peaceparks.org/tracker-academy-trainees-excel/) - Group 8 of the SA College for Tourism Tracker Academy students have just completed their final tracking assessment at Londolozi Game Reserve.
- [Drostdy Hotel Wins Two Awards](https://www.peaceparks.org/drostdy-hotel-wins-two-awards/) - The Drostdy Hotel in Graaff-Reinet, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the SA College for Tourism, has won two awards within six months of reopening its doors following extensive renovations.
- [Anglo American Continues Its Support Of Young Marginalised South African Women](https://www.peaceparks.org/anglo-american-continues-its-support-of-young-marginalised-south-african-women/) - The Board of Trustees of the Anglo American Chairman’s Fund Trust has announced that the fund will donate a further R350 000 to SA College for Tourism. Anglo American’s involvement, through the Chairman’s Fund, with the college dates back to 2009. Funding from the fund was and continues to be utilised by the college for the deployment of graduates within the tourism industry, South Africa’s fastest growing industry.
- [Training Lead Trackers](https://www.peaceparks.org/training-lead-trackers/) - The SA College for Tourism Tracker Academy has just completed the five-week Lead Tracker course. The programme candidates were hosted by Singita Game Reserve, while the field work was conducted on both Singita and Londolozi game reserves' properties. The academy is privileged to be able to operate on such a vast expanse of prime wildlife land.
- [ABSA Enables Rural Youth To Be Trained To Create Unique Tourism Experiences](https://www.peaceparks.org/absa-enables-rural-youth-to-be-trained-to-create-unique-tourism-experiences/) - In its continued commitment to skill unemployed rural youth between the ages of 18 to 35 from across Southern Africa, Absa has invested R1,5 million towards the development of hospitality and tourism industry skills as well as tracker and field guide skills programmes. These funds have been invested in the SA College for Tourism (SACT) in Graaff-Reinet.
- [94 Graduates Look Forward To A Career In The Tourism Industry](https://www.peaceparks.org/94-graduates-look-forward-to-a-career-in-the-tourism-industry/) - On 22 November 2013, 89 women and five men from southern Africa's rural communities graduated in hospitality service operations at the SA College for Tourism. The five men were trained at the request of the Chemucane community in Mozambique, where an upmarket lodge is being established with funding from the World Bank and the Ford Foundation. Joining the hospitality service graduates, were 12 young tracker graduates who completed their year-long training at the SA College for Tourism Tracker Academy, where they mastered the age-old indigenous and traditional art of tracking animals in the wild.
- [WTTC Tourism For Tomorrow Award](https://www.peaceparks.org/wttc-tourism-for-tomorrow-award/) - The SA College for Tourism Tracker Academy, founded in 2010, is a proud finalist of the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) Tourism for Tomorrow Award.
- [Life After College](https://www.peaceparks.org/life-after-college/) - Since leaving the college in 2012 with not just my certificate but also an award in front office skills, life has been amazing as each year progresses.
- [ABSA Contributes Towards Tourism Skills Development Of Youth](https://www.peaceparks.org/absa-contributes-towards-tourism-skills-development-of-youth/) - Absa has invested R1,6 million in the SA College for Tourism in Graaff-Reinet to empower 90 young marginalised women and 16 young men with employability and financial literacy skills which will further their careers in the hospitality and tourism industry.
- [CEO’S 2014 Year-End Message](https://www.peaceparks.org/ceos-2014-year-end-message/) - On 4 February, the year started on a high note when the Dutch Postcode Lottery (Nationale Postcode Loterij) announced that Peace Parks Foundation and WWF Netherlands was the recipient of the Dreamfund, awarded to help them in their efforts to save the rhino from extinction (see photo above).
- [Ceo's 2015 Year-End Message](https://www.peaceparks.org/ceos-2015-year-end-message/) - It has been another eventful and exciting year, where much has been achieved thanks to the generosity and support of donors, colleagues, friends and staff.
- [PPF CEO’S 2016 Year-End Message](https://www.peaceparks.org/ppf-ceos-2016-year-end-message/) - As we near the end of another productive year, on behalf of the Peace Parks team, I’d like to thank all our donors, colleagues, and friends for their continued and unwavering support. Thanks to your generosity and hard work, the peace parks concept is gaining momentum throughout the region. Today the ten peace parks supported
- [Stepping Into A Future In The Tourism Industry](https://www.peaceparks.org/stepping-into-a-future-in-the-tourism-industry/) - On 11 November, 89 young women and 14 young men from rural southern Africa graduated from the SA College for Tourism and its Tracker Academy, with national certificates in hospitality services and tracking animals in the wild respectively. These qualifications will allow them to work in the region's burgeoning tourism sector, enabling them to better
- [SA College For Tourism Tracker Academy Success](https://www.peaceparks.org/sa-college-for-tourism-tracker-academy-success/) - Ivan Buregoo, a graduate of the SA College for Tourism Tracker Academy, who completed his training at Londolozi Game Reserve in June this year, recently ran a four-day tracking course for a group of students from !Kwa ttu, a San cultural centre on the West Coast
- [EU Partners With SA College For Tourism To Empower Women In Job Creation Iniiative](https://www.peaceparks.org/eu-partners-with-sa-college-for-tourism-to-empower-women-in-job-creation-iniiative/) - The European Union (EU) Delegation to South Africa has undertaken to support the SA College for Tourism (SACT) until May 2018, with financing of close to €700 000 over three years.
- [SA College For Tourism's Formal Alliance With Bergplaas Private Nature Reserve And Spirit Of The Wild](https://www.peaceparks.org/sa-college-for-tourisms-formal-alliance-with-bergplaas-private-nature-reserve-and-spirit-of-the-wild/) - SA College for Tourism has established a formal training and human development alliance with Bergplaas Private Nature Reserve. The college and its Tracker Academy have maintained a successful and mutually beneficial relationship with Bergplaas Private Nature Reserve and its Spirit of the Wild Programme since 2012. The newly-established alliance means that the Spirit of the
- [College Welcomes Esteemed Visitors](https://www.peaceparks.org/college-welcomes-esteemed-visitors/) - On 16 February, the managing director of Namibia Wildlife Resorts, Ms Zelna Hengari, and Mr Ernest Mokganedi of the South African Department of Environmental Affairs visited the college at the invitation of Peace Parks Foundation, to establish a training alliance. The visit resulted in eight students (five Namibians and three South Africans) arriving for training
- [SACT Tracker Academy – Teaching Skills For Life](https://www.peaceparks.org/sact-tracker-academy-teaching-skills-for-life/) - Just outside Graaff-Reinet on Samara Private Game Reserve, Pokkie (Karel) Benadie is out tracking with his seven students. “Look at this,” he says, pointing to a newly dug shallow trench. “Anyone know what this is?” Everyone is puzzled. “Last night a porcupine was digging for roots and bulbs here,” he says, “and these are his
- [Anglo American's Grant Towards SA College For Tourism Is Changing Lives](https://www.peaceparks.org/anglo-americans-grant-towards-sa-college-for-tourism-is-changing-lives/) - A multi-year grant of R1.05 million towards the SA College for Tourism (SACT) from Anglo American's corporate social investment arm, the Chairman's Fund, is helping to uplift people in rural areas across Southern Africa by providing them with skills training and access to viable career opportunities in the tourism and hospitality sectors.
- [SA College For Tourism Tracker Academy Saves Rhino Calf](https://www.peaceparks.org/sa-college-for-tourism-tracker-academy-saves-rhino-calf/) - Last week a white rhino cow was killed by poachers close to one of the SA College for Tourism Tracker Academy training bases.
- [South African Deputy-Minister Of Tourism, Ms Tokozile Xasa, Visit SA College For Tourism](https://www.peaceparks.org/south-african-deputy-minister-of-tourism-ms-tokozile-xasa-visit-sa-college-for-tourism/) - The South African Deputy-Minister of Tourism, Ms Tokozile Xasa, visited the SA College for Tourism on Friday, 7 March. In the wake of South Africa signing up for the UN International Woman’s Day Commemoration, this year entitled Equality for Woman is Progress for All: Inspiring Change, Ms Xasa dovetailed her visit to college with this theme, as it is the focus of the college's training programme.
- [SA College For Tourism Tracker Academy News](https://www.peaceparks.org/sa-college-for-tourism-tracker-academy-news/) - The SA College for Tourism Tracker Academy is delighted to be one of three finalists for the People Award category of the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) Tourism for Tomorrow Awards.
- [Wool Farmers From Across The Globe Visit The SA College For Tourism](https://www.peaceparks.org/wool-farmers-from-across-the-globe-visit-the-sa-college-for-tourism/) - Merino South Africa recently hosted 120 Merino wool farmers from Argentine, Australia, New Zealand, Hungary, the UK and the USA. As part of their tour of South Africa, the visitors spent three days in Graaff-Reinet. Thanks to the intervention by Francois van der Merwe of the Koos & Rona Rupert Education Trust, one of the college's major donors, the SA College for Tourism was included as one of the Graaff-Reinet highlights of the visit. Despite only starting their training in January this year, the students excelled.
- [SA College For Tourism Celebrates Mandela Day](https://www.peaceparks.org/sa-college-for-tourism-celebrates-mandela-day/) - The SA College for Tourism staff and students decided to give more than 67 minutes of their time for a good cause and spent two days brightening up children’s lives by painting their classroom.
- [2014 Graduation: SA College For Tourism](https://www.peaceparks.org/2014-graduation-sa-college-for-tourism/) - On 28 November 89 young women from across the Southern African Development Community and sixteen young men graduated at SA College for Tourism (SACT) with a Certificate in Small Accommodation Establishment Operations and with Tracker Level 3 and 4 certificates respectively. In addition, the South African education and training authorities conferred four national skills development certificates on the ladies and a tracker skills development certificate on the gentlemen.
- [Second Fab Chef Competition A The SA College For Tourism](https://www.peaceparks.org/second-fab-chef-competition-at-the-sa-college-for-tourism/) - The SA College for Tourism recently hosted the second annual Fab Chef competition for its students. The competition is the brainchild of college board member Jennifer Preller, with prizes kindly sponsored by Remgro. The day started with a cooking demonstration by Kevin Rottcher, executive chef at Fleur du Cap Estate, Somerset West. Chef Kevin was
- [FAB FOOD CELEBRATIONS AT SA COLLEGE FOR TOURISM](https://www.peaceparks.org/fab-food-celebrations-at-sa-college-for-tourism/) - HERITAGE DAY On Friday 22 September, the students celebrated Heritage Day by decorating a table and cooking food to represent traditions and cuisine typically associated with their culture. They also dressed in cultural wear and treated staff to samples of their food. As per the tradition of the Basotho students, guests had to drink from
- [The SA College For Tourism – Turning Dreams Into Reality](https://www.peaceparks.org/the-sa-college-for-tourism-turning-dreams-into-reality/) - The idea of visionary Dr Anton Rupert, the SA College for Tourism opened in 2001 to grant opportunities to learners from rural areas in member states of the Southern African Development Community - and so break the poverty cycle. Most students to the college are also from areas where Peace Parks Foundation works, and the
- [Remembering Ernest Mokganedi](https://www.peaceparks.org/remembering-ernest-mokganedi/) - It is with great sadness that we have learnt of the tragic passing of Ernest, our dear friend and colleague. I have been working for Peace Parks Foundation for 20 years now, and as long as I can remember, Ernest was the driver of the transfrontier conservation concept for the South African Department of Environmental

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- [Home](https://www.peaceparks.org/) - - Connected Conservation Peace Parks Foundation believes that conservation at scale creates healthy landscapes and resilient communities that are able to adapt to the effects of climate change. We have identified five transboundary landscapes in southern Africa where we will focus our attention. In partnership with Government and the people living and working in the landscape,
- [Jaarverslagen](https://www.peaceparks.org/about/ppf-international/netherlands/jaarverslagen/) - Jaarverslagen 2025 Jaarverslagen 2024 Jaarverslagen 2023 Jaarverslagen 2022 Jaarverslagen 2021 Jaarverslagen 2020 Jaarverslagen 2019 Jaarverslagen 2018 Jaarverslagen 2017 Jaarverslagen 2016 Jaarverslagen 2015 Jaarverslagen 2014 Jaarverslagen 2013 Jaarverslagen 2012 Jaarverslagen 2011 Jaarverslagen 2010
- [Legacy Society](https://www.peaceparks.org/legacy-society/) - WHAT ARE YOU LEAVING BEHIND? Your legacy could keep nature alive for many generations to come Legacies can take many shapes Living legacy: Make regular financial gifts during your lifetime Pecuniary bequest: You can bequeath a specific gift of money Reversionary bequest: A gift of actual assets that are left to a particular beneficiary
- [Rewilding](https://www.peaceparks.org/rewilding/) - WHEN NATURE TAKES OVER Conservation at scale Restroration projects are a great source of pride for Peace Parks Foundation and those we collaborate with. By the end of 2023, Peace Parks Foundation had relocated 18 167 animals to previously degraded areas and we have seen the populations grow to a head count of an estimated
- [The Co-management Model](https://www.peaceparks.org/the-co-management-model/) - Shared governance, shared goals Peace Parks works towards a future where people live in balance with nature. By including all stakeholders in a landscape, and placing local people at the heart of decision-making, we can realise our vision of 980,000 km2 of functional transboundary conservation across Southern Africa by 2050. Over the past 20 years,
- [Flooding Emergency – Mozambique](https://www.peaceparks.org/flood-emergency-mozambique/) - Catastrophic flooding in Mozambique Severe flooding across the Limpopo, Shingwedzi and Olifants river systems has devastated communities living in and around Limpopo, Banhine and Zinave national parks in Mozambique’s Gaza Province. Current assessments indicate that the scale and impact of this flooding are more severe than the major floods of 2000, with widespread destruction of
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- [Switzerland](https://www.peaceparks.org/about/ppf-international/switzerland/) - International Peace Parks Foundation Registration nr: 06992/2002 Board Members Ms Lilian Spijkerman Mr Frédéric Neukomm Mr Bertrand Otto Mr Guillaume Pictet Hilgon Van Breda Tax-friendly Donations Donating to International Peace Parks Foundation enables you to support Peace Parks Foundation in a tax-efficient manner. See here how you can make direct payments to Switzerland. Contact General
- [Leave a Legacy of Real Impact](https://www.peaceparks.org/leave-a-legacy-of-real-impact/) - SOME LEGACIES ARE FELT LONG AFTER WE ARE GONE At Peace Parks Foundation, legacy gifts are important. They protect landscapes, livelihoods, and wildlife across Southern Africa, where herds roam freely, forests regenerate, and communities flourish. WHY SOUTHERN AFRICA, WHY PEACE PARKS, WHY NOW? Southern Africa holds some of the last great wild landscapes on Earth,
- [Donors and Partners](https://www.peaceparks.org/about/donors-and-partners/) - THANKS TO YOU We can achieve conservation at scale The rehabilitation and preservation of large natural ecosystems are one of the most cost-effective tools to mitigate climate change and build the resilience of all life dependent on these landscapes for survival. This is what Peace Parks undertakes across 68 million hectares of land throughout southern
- [Conservation Finance](https://www.peaceparks.org/innovative-conservation-finance/) - THE WAY OF THE FUTURE Partners4Nature Despite all the impacts we have achieved, Peace Parks will never be able to grow fast enough to tackle the magnitude of challenges we face. That is why we focused this year on mobilising partners to bring expertise and investment into the landscapes where we work. Founded by Peace
- [Bestuur en overige informatie](https://www.peaceparks.org/about/ppf-international/netherlands/bestuur-en-overige-informatie/) - Peace Parks Foundation Nederland (PPFNL) is een non-profit organisatie die het werk van Peace Parks Foundation in Zuid-Afrika ondersteunt. Alle activiteiten ondernomen door PPFNL hebben het CBF-Keur voor goede doelen toegekend gekregen door het Centraal Bureau Fondsenwerving. Hoofdlijnen van het actuele meerjarenbeleidsplan 2022-2026 Statuten van de Stichting Klachtenprocedure van de Stichting CBF Erkenningspaspoort Standaardformulier publicatieplicht
- [Tourism](https://www.peaceparks.org/tourism/) - Tourism is a vital component of the financial sustainability of any conservation area and Peace Parks is working towards ensuring that all the parks we work in are able to welcome tourists from all over the world and from all walks of life. All these parks are in different stages of development offering different experiences
- [United States of America](https://www.peaceparks.org/about/ppf-international/usa/) - Friends of the Peace Parks, Inc. Federal ID nr: 77-0471097 Board Members Ms Lilian Spijkerman Ms Kathy Bergs Ms Colleen Dodman Mr Steve Haze Mr Vance Martin Mr Werner Myburgh Mr Jason Paterniti Tax-friendly Donations Donating to Friends of Peace Parks Inc. enables you to support Peace Parks Foundation in a tax-efficient manner. Contact To
- [United Kingdom](https://www.peaceparks.org/about/ppf-international/uk/) - Friends of Peace Parks Trust Charity registration nr: 1065415 Trustees Mr Iain Banner Ms Lilian Spijkerman Julien Draper Dr Jamie McCallum Mr Nicholas Webb Tax-friendly Donations Donating to Friends of Peace Parks Trust enables you to support Peace Parks Foundation in a tax-efficient manner. Contact Donating to Peace Parks in the UK enables you to
- [The Netherlands](https://www.peaceparks.org/about/ppf-international/netherlands/) - Stichting Friends of the Peace Parks Kamer van Koophandel registration nr: 3330646ANBI / RSIN number: 807273119 Over In 1997 richtte Dr Anton Rupert samen met twee vrienden Dr Nelson Mandela en Prins Bernhard der Nederlanden, Peace Parks Foundation op. Aan de basis van Peace Parks Foundation lag de wens om in Zuidelijk Afrika grensoverschrijdende natuurparken
- [Sweden](https://www.peaceparks.org/about/ppf-international/sweden/) - Peace Parks Foundation Sweden Organisation nr: 80 24 45-2248 Tax-friendly Donations Donating to Peace Parks Foundation Sweden enables you to support Peace Parks Foundation in a tax-efficient manner. Contact Please use the contact form below, or email ppfcomms@peaceparks.org, addressing Ms Lena Malmberg for general enquiries about making direct payments to Sweden or Helena Johnzon-Dahl for
- [Germany](https://www.peaceparks.org/about/ppf-international/germany/) - Peace Parks Deutschland e.V. Association registration number: AG Munich, VR 17171 Tax number: 143/220/30763 Board Members Ms Lilian Spijkerman Dr Carl-Heinz Duisberg Dr Martin Pabst Mr Wilfried Pabst Dr Isabel von Gerstenbergk-Helldorff Mr Werner Myburgh Tax-friendly Donations Donating to Peace Parks Deutschland e.V. enables you to support Peace Parks Foundation in a tax-efficient manner. Please
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- [Financial Sustainability](https://www.peaceparks.org/financial-sustainability/) - BUILDING PROSPEROUS FUTURES Our survival, prosperity and wellbeing are inextricably linked with nature. Investment in nature preservation is imperative, not only for biodiversity and climate stability, but also for addressing poverty and inequality and safeguarding ecosystems that support livelihoods. The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) was adopted by 196 Parties to the Convention on Biological
- [Improved Health](https://www.peaceparks.org/improved-health/) - A HEALTHY AFRICA The distribution of fuel-efficient cookstoves that require only a few small pieces of wood to boil water and cook family meals has helped families in many ways. The stoves produce much less smoke than an open fire, thus contributing to cleaner air, improving health and living conditions, eliminating the burden of fetching
- [Improved Water Quality and Security](https://www.peaceparks.org/improved-water-quality-and-security/) - GUARDING LIFE’S PUREST ESSENCE Water security is a critical concern in southern Africa, affecting people, livestock, and wildlife. At Peace Parks Foundation, we recognise the urgency of addressing water security through a comprehensive approach tailored to each unique area where we operate. Our strategies include both safeguarding water resources and ensuring water supply. We endeavour
- [Reduced Fragility, Conflict and Violence](https://www.peaceparks.org/reduced-fragility-conflict-violence/) - A RENEWED FOCUS ON OUR CORE At Peace Parks Foundation, our very name denotes tranquillity and harmony, reflecting the core values we hold dear. We recognise that our commitment to peace has often been implicit rather than explicit, understood but not systematically pursued. Yet, our activities with communities, governments and the business sector are directly
- [Our Journey](https://www.peaceparks.org/about/our-journey/) - THE BEGINNING On 1 February 1997, Peace Parks Foundation was founded by HRH Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, President Nelson Mandela and Dr Anton Rupert to facilitate the establishment of peace parks, or transfrontier conservation areas (TFCAs), in southern Africa.
- [Herding for Health](https://www.peaceparks.org/h4h/) - THE CHALLENGE The vast and highly biodiverse savannas, grasslands and shrublands of southern Africa are crucial for people and nature. They support more than 50 million indigenous and local pastoralists, offer habitats for iconic wildlife and store large quantities of planet-warming carbon. But half of Africa’s native rangelands are degraded due to encroaching settlements, land
- [Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation](https://www.peaceparks.org/climate-change-adaptation-and-mitigation/) - RESHAPING TOMORROW’S CLIMATE NARRATIVE Southern Africa is among the most climate vulnerable regions in the world. Peace Parks addresses the climate emergency by protecting, connecting and restoring the very ecosystem services that vulnerable communities depend on. This also increases the robustness of ecosystems and their resilience to climate shocks such as extreme weather events, ensuring
- [Biodiversity Protection and Restoration](https://www.peaceparks.org/biodiversity-protection-and-restoration/) - BIODIVERSITY PROTECTION AND RESTORATION In 2022, after four years of negotiations and consultations, a historic new Global Biodiversity Framework was signed by 188 countries across the globe as part of the 15th Conference of Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity. An integral component of the framework is the ambitious ‘30x30’ conservation objective, a
- [Peace Parks Club](https://www.peaceparks.org/club/) - JOIN THE CLUB Peace Parks Club has as its members a prestigious and influential group of individuals and companies from across the globe. The club was established in 1997, under the leadership of HRH Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands. Peace Parks Club members have played a major role in the foundation’s work and the following
- [Employment](https://www.peaceparks.org/employment/) - PROPELLING ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT Conservation is not merely an environmental issue but a socio-economic opportunity that can be leveraged to meet the needs of local people. By investing in conservation-related industries, such as eco-tourism and sustainable agriculture, there’s potential to create jobs and reduce poverty in a manner that supports and even restores ecosystems. Within this
- [Gender Equity](https://www.peaceparks.org/gender-equity/) - EQUIP, INCLUDE, EMPOWER When addressing gender equity, we particularly assess the structure of opportunity in communities to understand where gender norms affect women, girls and other vulnerable groups. The outcomes of our programmes are focused on inclusive governance and decision-making, improved safety and security of all community members and an inclusive conservation-enabled economy that provides
- [Sustainable Livelihoods](https://www.peaceparks.org/sustainable-livlihoods/) - SHAPING FUTURES Peace Parks embarked on its transformative endeavour in Simalaha, Zambia 14 years ago. Nestled in the Sesheke and Sekhute Chiefdoms, the Simalaha Community Conservancy stands as a pioneering initiative in Zambia, covering an extensive area of 1,800 km2. Within this vast expanse, a 500 km2 sanctuary was designed specifically for the development of
- [Impact Areas](https://www.peaceparks.org/impact-areas/) - Over the past 26 years, Peace Parks has facilitated the establishment of 10 transboundary conservation areas spanning 11 African countries, with the aim of establishing 980 000 km² of functional transboundary landscape. In the last decade, we have focused on five transboundary landscapes with a combined size of 675 990 km². This is the combined
- [SA College for Tourism](https://www.peaceparks.org/sact/) - THE CHALLENGE One of the outcomes identified for the establishment of transfrontier conservation areas in southern Africa, is creating economically sustainable livelihoods for people living in transboundary landscapes. Tourism stimulates economic growth and job creation. In South Africa approximately one in 20 people directly rely on the tourism industry for employment. A large base of
- [Southern African Wildlife College](https://www.peaceparks.org/sawc/) - THE CHALLENGE As the threats to the protection of our natural resources continue to escalate, and the sum total of factors that influence the sustainability of conservation areas become increasingly more complex, it is crucial to develop and grow a skilled workforce that can take on modern conservation challenges. Our Solution The Southern African Wildlife
- [Combatting Wildlife Crime](https://www.peaceparks.org/combatting-wildlife-crime/) - THE CHALLENGE Ten years ago, institutions lacked both the necessary resources and strategies to address the problem of wildlife crime. Despite this, individuals from South Africa’s Department of Forestry Fisheries and the Environment, Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife, South African National Parks and Mozambique’s National Administration for Conservation Areas (ANAC), supported by Peace Parks Foundation stepped up,
- [Lubombo Community Development](https://www.peaceparks.org/how/community-development/mozambique-community-development/) - In 2005 the Mozambican government appointed Peace Parks Foundation to provide assistance with a community development strategy that would bring about the sustainable economic development of communities living in and around Maputo Special Reserve and Ponta do Ouro Partial Marine Reserve in the Lubombo Transfrontier Conservation and Resource Area through nature-based tourism and conservation enterprises.
- [The Vision](https://www.peaceparks.org/about/the-dream/) - STRATEGY 2030 5 Priority Transboundary Landscapes | 10 Key Protected Areas | 7 Key Ecological Linkages Founded by President Nelson Mandela, Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands and Dr Anton Rupert in 1997 with a mandate to rewild southern Africa, Peace Parks Foundation set out on a mission that became Africa's largest nature conservation initiative. With
- [Ecological Linkages](https://www.peaceparks.org/ecological-corridors/) - JOINING THE DOTS Ecological linkages Broad areas connecting core protected or conserved areas that prevent isolation, ensuring that these core areas remain ecologically integrated. We define these areas based on our current understanding of wildlife movement in the landscapes we support. Corridors Connecting pathways, which can be linear, landscape-wide, or composed of stepping stones. These
- [Implementation Programmes](https://www.peaceparks.org/how/community-development/) - The Challenge Millions of people living in transfrontier conservation areas rely on these natural spaces to provide food, energy and livelihoods for themselves and their communities. Peace Parks Foundation joins the global environmental conservation industry in recognising that the participation of Indigenous People and local communities is essential for the success of conservation initiatives. Much
- [Diversity and Inclusion](https://www.peaceparks.org/diversity-and-inclusion-2/) - OUR CULTURE Peace Parks Foundation is an African organisation founded on the very ethos of true diversity and inclusion in all the work we do. We empower all employees, regardless of gender, race, or culture. We are proud to have a myriad of talented individuals working at Peace Parks Foundation who come from diverse backgrounds,
- [Geographical Information System Services](https://www.peaceparks.org/gis/) - THE CHALLENGE Transfrontier landscapes are inherently large tracts of land with diverse fauna, flora and human societies. Collaborative planning and management of these transfrontier conservation areas require decisions at various political levels, spatial scales, temporal scales and disciplines. This in turn requires information (processed data) as well as common understanding of the larger spatial landscape.
- [Employee Benefits](https://www.peaceparks.org/employee-benefits/) - WHEN OUR PEOPLE THRIVE Our organisation thrives Leave Policy Leave is 21 days, which you can accumulate to a max of 25. Half-day annual leave on your birthday. Additional leave: One extra day of annual leave per annum, for every 5 years of completed service, plus a monetary value tied to long service, awarded every
- [Tenders](https://www.peaceparks.org/about/tenders/) - BIG PROJECTS At landscape level Peace Parks Foundation works in large landscapes on cross border projects that effect many lives in a positive way. The following opportunities currently exist in the transfrontier conservation space:
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- [Club 21](https://www.peaceparks.org/get-involved/club-21/) - Exclusive membership Club 21 comprises individuals, families and companies who have donated $1 million or more to Peace Parks to help achieve their dream of reconnecting Africa’s wild spaces to create a future for man in harmony with nature. A 10-year membership fee is either a one-off payment of $1 million, or $100 000 p.a.
- [Donors](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors/) - THANKS TO YOU We can achieve conservation at scale The rehabilitation and preservation of large natural ecosystems are one of the most cost-effective tools to mitigate climate change and build the resilience of all life dependent on these landscapes for survival. This is what Peace Parks undertakes across 68 million hectares of land throughout southern
- [The Team](https://www.peaceparks.org/about/team/) - The people of Peace Parks are professionals who have chosen to dedicate their careers to a singular purpose - protecting this breathtaking ecosystem we call Earth. Be part of something bigger than yourself. This is the shared philosophy that inspires our staff to come to work impassioned and determined every day. Put all of us
- [How You Can Help](https://www.peaceparks.org/getinvolved/) - BE PART OF THE SOLUTION Peace Parks Foundation is a non-profit organisation (Registration number: 1997/004896/08; NPO number: 005-294 NPO; PBO number: 130003729). One of our primary functions is to ensure that sufficient funding is available to establish and develop transfrontier conservation areas (TFCAs), as well as execute those projects crucial to reaching the objectives of
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- [Peace Parks International](https://www.peaceparks.org/about/ppf-international/) - Conservation - A Global Concern Passion for the protection of Africa’s natural heritage extends not only across country borders, but reaches into the farthest corners of the globe. To assist Peace Parks Foundation in sharing the story and significance of transfrontier conservation with the world, the Foundation has established international offices and mobilised local representatives
- [Benefits](https://www.peaceparks.org/benefits/) - Great Benefits - (EG carolyn to provide actual copy) (First Year) Core Benefits Sick Leave: 10 days Annual Leave 15 days Holidays: 9 Floating Life Insurance: Employer paid • Disability Insurance: Employer paid Emergency Evacuation Coverage Optional Benefits Health: Care First (Blue Cross Blue Shield HMO, PPO, POS) Dental: Cigna Dental PPO • Flexible spending
- [Diversity and Inclusion](https://www.peaceparks.org/diversity-and-inclusion/) - Our position statement in support of our diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) strategy is "??????????", which is the driving force behind everything we do to empower all employees, regardless of gender, race, or culture. We are proud to have a myriad of talented individuals working at Peace Parks Foundation who come from diverse backgrounds and
- [Simalaha Community Conservancy](https://www.peaceparks.org/simalaha/) - In 2012, the senior leadership of the two chiefdoms agreed that their land be developed as a wildlife conservancy, to allow for conservation of the area and viable natural resource management, but also promote income generation through nature-based economies and tourism opportunities. On 22 October of that year, Simalaha was officially launched by Chief Sekute
- [Donate Online](https://www.peaceparks.org/donate/) - It’s not just a gift. You are making a meaningful difference and impacting the course of conservation history.
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- [Sioma Ngwezi](https://www.peaceparks.org/siomangwezi/) - Within the Zambia component of the KAZA TFCA lies the Sioma Ngwezi National Park and the Zambezi West Game Management Area, together referred to as the Sioma Ngwezi Management Complex , an area that was declared by the Litunga – the King of the Barotse Royal Establishment – as a protected area more than a
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- [Peace Parks Foundation responds to COVID-19](https://www.peaceparks.org/covid-19/) - Peace Parks and the pandemic COVID-19 has once again reminded us of how important it is to respect all life and that nature has a way of fighting back if we keep on ignoring the many and clear warning signs all around us. Peace Parks has always worked towards one clear goal: to reconnect Africa’s
- [Support the SA College for Tourism](https://www.peaceparks.org/get-involved/support-sa-college-for-tourism/) - Opening up new worlds through education The SA College for Tourism is a non-profit organisation (Public Benefit Organisation: 18/11/13/349; Non-Profit Organisation: 080-778-NPO), that operates under the auspices of Peace Parks Foundation. Ecotourism is a key component to sustainable conservation-efforts [more..] How you can help Donors wishing to support the SA College for Tourism can do
- [Fund Management](https://www.peaceparks.org/how/fund-management/) - The Challenge Sadly, this is the reality that many southern African countries face. Despite commitment and passion behind the concept thereof, protected areas, once created, often lack the funding and management structure to be effective. Our Solution We have realized, mobilised and secured over R5 billion (EUR339 million) for various conservation and development initiatives over
- [Rhino Protection](https://www.peaceparks.org/how/combating-wildlife-crime/rhinoprotection/) - The Challenge Africa loses 3 rhino per day. South Africa is home to approximately 80% of the world’s wild rhino, with only an estimated 5000 black rhino and less than 20 000 white rhino remaining. In 2014 the country lost 1215 rhino to poaching. Whilst the number of rhino poached decreased to 1028 in 2017,
- [!Ae!Hai Kalahari Heritage Park](https://www.peaceparks.org/how/community-development/aehai-kalahari-heritage-park/) - The !Ae!Hai Kalahari Heritage Park - managed by a joint management board comprising representatives of the ‡Khomani San and Mier communities and South African National Parks (SANParks) - aims to preserve the cultural and traditional knowledge of these indigenous communities, while improving their opportunities to earn a sustainable livelihood.
- [Wildlife Crime](https://www.peaceparks.org/how/combating-wildlife-crime/) - The Challenge Peace Parks Foundation was initially established with the purpose to serve, first and foremost, as a facilitator - bringing governments together to recognise the value of their shared natural assets and jointly managing and developing these. This role has gradually changed to include involvement in the implementation of large development aid projects, but
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- [Simalaha Treadle Pumps Campaign](https://www.peaceparks.org/treadlepumps/) - Donate a treadle pump and help a local farmer become food secure A severe, prevailing drought in the Simalaha Community Conservancy, Zambia has resulted in almost no yield from rain fed crops in the last year. This has created a scarcity of food with local communities having to turn to the collection and consumption of
- [Wild Rhino Campaign](https://www.peaceparks.org/how/combating-wildlife-crime/rhinoprotection/wildrhinovietnam/) - The Wild Rhino demand reduction campaign aims to educate and engage Vietnamese youth on the issue of rhino poaching as part of the Rhino Protection Programme. It is an initiative implemented by Wilderness Foundation Africa, in partnership with Peace Parks Foundation, SOUL Music & Performing Arts Academy, and recently also supported by the Olsen Animal
- [Veterinary Research](https://www.peaceparks.org/how/veterinary-research/) - The Challenge Healthy environments support healthy wildlife - and healthy livestock vital to the communities bordering conservation areas. Within an environment where partners countries strive to re-establish large functional ecosystems across man-made borders, the spreading of diseases across international lines needs to be carefully monitored and controlled. Since antiquity, animal diseases in Africa have had
- [Leopard Protection](https://www.peaceparks.org/how/combating-wildlife-crime/leopard-protection/) - The Challenge The leopard, an emblematic species of Africa, is revered around the world for its gorgeous spotted coat. Tragically, leopard have vanished from at least 49% of their historic range in Africa. Contributing greatly to this demise, is the use of leopard, and other wild cat, skins in traditional and religious ceremonies by various
- [Why](https://www.peaceparks.org/what/) - A global challenge The human species is consuming our own planet. It is often very accusingly pointed out that we "just take". However, as a species reliant on earth's nature for our survival - we have to take, because we need our planet for: The problem is that we take too much. We take indiscriminately.
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- [New Technologies](https://www.peaceparks.org/how/new-technologies/) - The challenge There are those who innovate, followed by early adopters of technology, pragmatists, conservatives and then there are those who are laggards. Very infrequently are conservationists early adopters. The exponential rate of change in technology in modern times, presupposes that in many sectors, technologies are missed and/or leap-frogged. Furthermore, when elements of technology are
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- [Conservation through Commercialisation](https://www.peaceparks.org/ximark/) - Although trading rhino horn has been illegal in China since 1993, the prohibited activity remains widespread in the country. The College of Design and Innovation at Tongji University has partnered with Peace Parks Foundation to offer their students the opportunity to address this extremely complicated social issue through the use of innovative design as part
- [Ngonye Falls Community Partnership Park](https://www.peaceparks.org/ngonye-falls-community-partnership-park/) - Ngonye Falls is situated in the Kavango Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area close to the village of Sioma. Although only 12m high, the volume of water pounding over the rocks is second only to the Victoria Falls The Community Partnership Park recognises the cultural, aesthetic and tourism value of Ngonye Falls, and aims to to protect
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## Posts

- [The perilous 1,000-mile journey to save Africa’s endangered black rhinos](https://www.peaceparks.org/external-news/the-perilous-1000-mile-journey-to-save-africas-endangered-black-rhinos/) - Animal conservationists are trying to save South Africa’s rhinos by moving them out of threatened areas and into new habitats with strong security and strategic conservation methods. The Post joined an armored convoy carrying endangered black rhinos from South Africa to a national park in Mozambique, in an effort to save them from poachers.
- [TFCA Financing Facility hands over Covid-19 response grants to SADC TFCAs](https://www.peaceparks.org/external-news/tfca-financing-facility-hands-over-covid-19-response-grants-to-sadc-tfcas/) - In a ceremony held on the 3rd of May 2022 in Johannesburg, South Africa, organised by International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), two cheques were handed over to the first recipients of Covid-19 Response Grants.
- [Mozambique’s ISIS insurgency threatens to destroy conservation progress and fragile environmental protections in Niassa Special Reserve](https://www.peaceparks.org/external-news/mozambiques-isis-insurgency-threatens-to-destroy-conservation-progress-and-fragile-environmental-protections-in-niassa-special-reserve/) - The Islamic State (IS) insurgency in northern Mozambique has taken a new, sinister turn, moving inland and westward into the Niassa Special Reserve. Elsewhere, ANAC in partnership with both African Parks and the South Africa-based Peace Parks Foundation, is consolidating environmental gains in many of the country’s parks.
- [Wildlife corridors — from divide and conquer to connect and restore](https://www.peaceparks.org/external-news/wildlife-corridors-from-divide-and-conquer-to-connect-and-restore/) - Reconnecting fragmented pieces of land is critical to wildlife survival and recovery. In Africa, numerous multi-jurisdictional wildlife conservation areas have been established under the banner of “Peace Parks.”
- [Botswana’s big problem is not elephants, but runaway bushfires](https://www.peaceparks.org/external-news/botswanas-big-problem-is-not-elephants-but-runaway-bushfires/) - When vast areas of northern Botswana are denuded of trees, elephants almost always get the blame. We need to start looking elsewhere.
- [UBP joins forces with conservation experts to launch biodiversity restoration strategy](https://www.peaceparks.org/external-news/ubp-joins-forces-with-conservation-experts-to-launch-biodiversity-restoration-strategy/) - Recognising the challenges of investing in biodiversity restoration, UBP has partnered with Peace Parks Foundation and planned a collaboration with the Cambridge Conservation Initiative, both conservation actors, to launch a biodiversity restoration strategy.
- [One family office’s approach to conservation finance in Africa](https://www.peaceparks.org/external-news/one-family-offices-approach-to-conservation-finance-in-africa/) - Kathaka is a single-family office deploying capital and strategic resources into investment and philanthropic endeavours, but Caroline Rupert, its founder and chairwoman, says the name has a deeper meaning—Kathaka in Sanskrit means, ‘One who tells a story’.
- [Herding 4 Health - People, livestock and conservation](https://www.peaceparks.org/external-news/herding-4-health-people-livestock-and-conservation/) - Livestock herding and wildlife conservation are often seen as anathema to each other. A combined Peace Parks and Conservation International initiative called Herding 4 Health (H4H) is changing these perceptions while improving livestock health and wealth for local people living on the fringes of protected areas. The programme is also restoring rangelands and increasing biodiversity.
- [UBP partners with conservation experts to launch biodiversity restoration fund](https://www.peaceparks.org/external-news/ubp-partners-with-conservation-experts-to-launch-biodiversity-restoration-fund/) - Union Bancaire Privée (UBP) has launched the UBAM – Biodiversity Restoration fund in collaboration with two biodiversity partners, the Cambridge Conservation Initiative (CCI) and the Peace Parks Foundation. The Biodiversity Restoration fund will aim to identify and invest in solution-providers' products and supply chains that protect and restore species and natural habitats.
- [UBP sheds light on the biodiversity-investment nexus](https://www.peaceparks.org/external-news/ubp-sheds-light-on-the-biodiversity-investment-nexus/) - As part of Building Bridges Week – the agenda-setting event on sustainable finance taking place in Geneva from 29 November to 2 December 2021 – UBP hosted an interactive panel discussion on biodiversity and its investment opportunities.
- [Assessing wildlife trade on e-commerce sites in China, with a focus on mammoth ivory](https://www.peaceparks.org/external-news/assessing-wildlife-trade-on-e-commerce-sites-in-china-with-a-focus-on-mammoth-ivory/) - The Wildlife Justice Commission has conducted with the support of Peace Parks Foundation targeted research to assess the levels of illegal wildlife trade on Chinese e-commerce platforms.
- [Govt hails Vwaza Wildlife Reserve fence project](https://www.peaceparks.org/external-news/govt-hails-vwaza-wildlife-reserve-fence-project/) - Director of Parks and Wildlife Brighton Kumchedwa has commended efforts to construct a 70-kilometre electric fence around Vwaza Wildlife Reserve in Mzimba, saying it will reduce conflict between animals and people.
- [SMART technology transforms conservation at over 1,000 of the world's most important biodiversity sites](https://www.peaceparks.org/external-news/smart-technology-transforms-conservation-at-over-1000-of-the-worlds-most-important-biodiversity-sites/) - A team of conservationists is launching a major upgrade to SMART - the world’s leading protected area management tool helping conservation practitioners in 70 countries to collect, interpret and use information to make decisions and inform strategies over time with reliable, quantitative data.
- [‘I want to be nature’s voice’](https://www.peaceparks.org/external-news/i-want-to-be-natures-voice/) - Everything that Lucrescencia Macuacua does is to honour her mother, including becoming a field ranger. “My mother loved animals,” says the 35-year-old, who works in the Limpopo National Park in Mozambique. “She even named our cat after me.”
- [Moving Giants Program Helps Secure Future for Baby Elephants](https://www.peaceparks.org/external-news/moving-giants-program-helps-secure-future-for-baby-elephants/) - Recently, the Moving Giants project, which is translocating 200 elephants from South Africa to Zinave National Park in Mozambique, celebrated the birth of elephant calves, spotted in Zinave for the first time in many years. It’s a positive sign of hope, not only for these elephants, but for the future of rewilding efforts in conservation worldwide. De Beers has directed its efforts into Moving Giants, one of the longest elephant translocations attempted. Working in partnership with Peace Parks Foundation the project aims to move 200 elephants from De Beers’ Venetia Limpopo Nature Reserve (VLNR) in South Africa – where an abundance of thriving elephants was putting pressure on the ecosystem – to Zinave National Park in southern Mozambique, where the population was struggling to recover following 15 years of civil war.
- [Microsoft Launches ‘Planetary Computer’ to Reach Biodiversity Goals](https://www.peaceparks.org/external-news/microsoft-launches-planetary-computer-to-reach-biodiversity-goals/) - Microsoft is creating a new Planetary Computer platform to provide insights about species, biodiversity, and ecosystems. The move represents the next step in the company’s 2020 sustainability efforts, according to the tech giant. (Photo Credit: Gabriel Gabriel, Unsplash)
- [My cattle, your rhinos: South Africa’s poverty-and-wildlife conundrum](https://www.peaceparks.org/external-news/my-cattle-your-rhinos-south-africas-poverty-and-wildlife-conundrum/) - Meat Naturally, Conservation South Africa and Herding 4 Health – Peace Parks Foundation have entered into a partnership to replicate a rangeland restoration model across four transboundary national parks spanning Botswana, Mozambique, South Africa and Zambia
- [Lozis Embrace Replica Skins to Save Leopards](https://www.peaceparks.org/external-news/lozis-embrace-replica-skins-to-save-leopards/) - The royal paddlers of the Nalikwanda, the Litunga’s royal boat, will be updating an old tradition by adorning themselves in their newly acquired Heritage Furs, fabric replica leopard and serval cat skins.
- [A solar-powered 'Meerkat' is protecting South Africa's rhinos](https://www.peaceparks.org/external-news/a-solar-powered-meerkat-is-protecting-south-africas-rhinos/) - In South Africa's biggest national park, a camouflaged system of radars, cameras and sensors stands guard. The solar-powered technology is helping to protect Kruger National Park's rhinos from poachers, and the country's tourism industry as a result. The network can distinguish between human and animal movement and even includes an infrared sensor, so it can spot poachers at night and alert park rangers to their presence.
- [NGOs form the backbone of conservation in South Africa](https://www.peaceparks.org/external-news/ngos-form-the-backbone-of-conservation-in-south-africa/) - Conservation NGOs working to protect biodiversity in South Africa contribute significantly to the persistence of numerous species and habits and the life-giving services that they provide, as indicated in a new report just launched.
- [7 Conservation Organizations Making A Difference](https://www.peaceparks.org/external-news/7-conservation-organizations-making-a-difference/) - Natural lands and wildlife are an important part of ecosystems across the planet. Unfortunately, human development is often a threat to these habitats. That's why organizations like the ones listed here work to protect and preserve vulnerable areas for future generations of people and animals to enjoy.
- [Can Artificial Intelligence Help Pinch Poachers?](https://www.peaceparks.org/external-news/can-artificial-intelligence-help-pinch-poachers/) - In South Africa, conservationists were making no headway on preventing rampant rhino poaching. Hluhluwe–iMfolozi Park, the “birthplace of rhinos,” was a particular hotspot, logging hundreds of dead rhinos in a single year. So Peace Parks Foundation, a conservation nonprofit, set its sights on improving the situation in the park with the help of AI researchers from Microsoft.
- [Shepherd’s Delight](https://www.peaceparks.org/external-news/shepherds-delight/) - Chris and four other shepherds work here on St Olives farm near the top of Ouberg Pass between Graaff-Reinet and Murraysburg, each with a dog they have trained themselves. For seven days at a time, they guard and move sheep, using them to invigorate degraded veld. Then they return to the bustle of town for a week’s break. In their wake, the veld is refreshed and revitalised, primed for recovery and growth.
- [Smart Parks power monitoring sensors for Hluhluwe-iMfolozi](https://www.peaceparks.org/external-news/smart-parks-power-monitoring-sensors-for-hluhluwe-imfolozi/) - In an ongoing collaboration between Peace Parks Foundation and Smart Parks aimed at supporting conservation agency Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife to enhance anti-poaching efficiencies in its protected areas.
- [Family planning: 'world’s most important yet most ignored environmental action'](https://www.peaceparks.org/external-news/family-planning-worlds-most-important-yet-most-ignored-environmental-action/) - Thriving Together: Environmental Conservation and Family Planning, a new UN-backed campaign, was launched on World Population Day on Thursday. It recognises that “improving access to family planning services is critically important for the environment and biodiversity”.
- [Elephant Found Seriously Injured](https://www.peaceparks.org/external-news/elephant-found-seriously-injured/) - What we found was worrying and surprising. A deep wound penetrating the upper part of the skull causing a severe infection. Additionally, with multiple bone fragments in the wound cavity.
- [Managing Protected Areas](https://www.peaceparks.org/external-news/managing-protected-areas/) - Innovative solutions to meet the needs of conservation area managers around the world
- [Preventing Rhino Poaching With Microsoft Azure](https://www.peaceparks.org/external-news/preventing-rhino-poaching-with-microsoft-azure/) - As part of our team’s mission to find new ways that technology can positively impact our world, we’ve been collaborating with the Combating Wildlife Crime team from Peace Parks Foundation (PPF), in partnership with the South African conservation agency Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife (Ezemvelo). Together, we’re working to support rhino anti-poaching efforts through the power of Cloud Computing and AI on Azure.
- [Microsoft opens first data centers in Africa with general availability of Microsoft Azure](https://www.peaceparks.org/external-news/microsoft-opens-first-data-centers-in-africa-with-general-availability-of-microsoft-azure/) - Today, I am pleased to announce the general availability of Microsoft Azure from our new cloud regions in Cape Town and Johannesburg, South Africa. Nedbank, Peace Parks Foundation, and eThekwini water are just a few of the organizations in Africa leveraging Microsoft cloud services today and will benefit from the increased computing resources and connectivity from our new cloud regions.
- [This is why we're moving 200 elephants](https://www.peaceparks.org/external-news/this-is-why-were-moving-200-elephants/) - Moving the world’s largest land mammal is not easy work. It takes months — if not years — of planning and coordination. It takes a lot of money, it takes passion, and it takes a serious amount of collaborators. In other words, it's not a casual endeavor. This week, we’re looking back at the process and what the team had to say about this momentous undertaking and why we undertook it in the first place.
- [Greater Mapungubwe Tri-Nations Camp](https://www.peaceparks.org/external-news/greater-mapungubwe-tri-nations-camp/) - Children in the Wilderness host an annual Tri-Nations Camp at Mapungubwe National Park, where we bring children together from these three countries. The initiative began in 2015 as a way of including children living in the GMTFCA areas in CITW programmes. The children who attend camp are selected from the CITW Eco-Clubs in their local schools in accordance with their commitment and portrayal of interest in conservation.
- [Zinave National Park, paradise in the making](https://www.peaceparks.org/external-news/zinave-national-park-paradise-in-the-making/) - Zinave National Park has been a buzz of activity since 2016. In one of the biggest wildlife translocation operations between South Africa and Mozambique, animals started streaming in, and after three years of introductions, the park is showing a vast improvement.
- [Getting Smart](https://www.peaceparks.org/external-news/getting-smart/) - Zinave National Park is using cutting-edge technology to protect its wildlife.
- [African Community and Conservation Foundation Launches November 2018](https://www.peaceparks.org/external-news/african-community-and-conservation-foundation-launches-november-2018/) - African Community and Conservation Foundation ("ACCF" or the "Foundation") - a project sponsored by Friends of Peace Parks Inc. - is a new, independent non-profit charitable organization is launching in November 2018 with the overarching goal of fueling sustainable and transformative human impact and conservation in Africa.
- ['Ik ga op reis en ik neem mee...' - Merel Westrik](https://www.peaceparks.org/external-news/ik-ga-op-reis-en-ik-neem-mee-merel-westrik/) - In the first episode of 'I'm going on a trip and I'm taking ...', Merel Westrik traveled with Martijn Krabbé to the Kruger National Park in South Africa. There they went on a journey with Peace Parks Foundation to learn more about protecting the seriously endangered rhinoceros in the area. (Article and video in Dutch)
- [KAZA press trip across 5 countries inspires international journalists](https://www.peaceparks.org/external-news/kaza-press-trip-across-5-countries-inspires-international-journalists/) - The Kavango Zambezi (KAZA) Secretariat partnered with a wide range of organisations and stakeholders to host a ground-breaking media tour from 15-25 November 2018, as part of an initiative to profile the KAZA Transfrontier Conservation Area (TFCA) as a world-class tourism destination.
- [2018 SANParks Kudu Awards winners announced](https://www.peaceparks.org/external-news/2018-sanparks-kudu-awards-winners-announced/) - South African National Parks (SANParks) recently held its 14th Kudu Awards ceremony celebrating its employees, as well as multiple stakeholders who play a pivotal role in strengthening conservation in South Africa.
- [This Organization Is Trying To Save A National Park](https://www.peaceparks.org/external-news/this-organization-is-trying-to-save-a-national-park/) - After a devastating civil war, one organization is committed to restoring Zinave National Park to its former glory.
- [Keys To Animal Kingdom](https://www.peaceparks.org/external-news/keys-to-animal-kingdom/) - Too many elephants can overwhelm an ecosystem. But, surprisingly, not enough elephants can have an equally damaging impact.
- [PPF UK Director, Jamie McCallum to speak in London](https://www.peaceparks.org/external-news/ppf-uk-director-jamie-mccallum-to-speak-in-london/) - The Nyika-Vwaza Trust is delighted to have Dr Jamie McCallum, Director of Peace Parks Foundation UK, as the speaker at their upcoming annual trust evening to be held at the The Union Jack Club near Waterloo station. He will be speaking about PPF’s work to facilitate the establishment of transfrontier conservation areas (peace parks) and the associated sustainable economic development and ecological benefits that support regional peace and stability, with particular reference to the Malawi-Zambia TFCA. Tickets available.
- [Johann Rupert honoured with Appeal of Conscience award](https://www.peaceparks.org/external-news/johann-rupert-honoured-with-appeal-of-conscience-award/) - Peace Parks Foundation Chairman, Johann Rupert, was awarded the Appeal of Conscience Award in New York on Wednesday evening, 26 September 2018.
- [Boost for regional training as grant funds expansion at Wildlife College](https://www.peaceparks.org/external-news/boost-for-regional-training-as-grant-funds-expansion-at-wildlife-college/) - A substantial grant from the German Government through KfW has taken the Southern African Wildlife College (SAWC), one of Africa’s premier conservation skills and training facilities, to the next level.
- [As Tigers Become Rarer, Poachers Are Targeting Lions](https://www.peaceparks.org/external-news/as-tigers-become-rarer-poachers-are-targeting-lions/) - In Mozambique, and widely in Africa where lions are found, the continent’s most recognized predator is facing a growing threat.
- [Pursuing poachers and tourism to boost conservation in Mozambique](https://www.peaceparks.org/external-news/pursuing-poachers-and-tourism-to-boost-conservation-in-mozambique/) - The dam at Massingir in southwestern Mozambique is like a bridge between two worlds, one a deadly threat to the wildlife in the other.
- [Microsoft supports 3 South African Organizations with $1M in cash and technology grants](https://www.peaceparks.org/external-news/microsoft-supports-3-south-african-organizations-with-1m-in-cash-and-technology-grants/) - Microsoft Philanthropies announce $1M in cash and technology grants to three innovative non-profit South African organisations to drive greater impact through digital transformation
- [Bush Babies’ artwork supports South African cause](https://www.peaceparks.org/external-news/bush-babies-artwork-supports-south-african-cause/) - Yvonne Reed uses her store to increase awareness and raise funds for the nonprofit Peace Parks, which she has been involved with for 18 years. All of the art and decor comes from artists and tribespeople in South Africa, and it all serves to promote conservation and raise awareness against poaching.
- [Sioma Ngwezi National Park Restocking program underway](https://www.peaceparks.org/external-news/sioma-ngwezi-national-park-restocking-program-underway/) - ON 6th July 2018, the Department of National Parks and Wildlife (DNPW) in partnership with the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF Zambia ) and other partners commenced the 2018 capture and translocation operations to restock the Sioma Ngwezi National Park.
- [Business leaders visit Kruger Park to learn about anti-poaching measures](https://www.peaceparks.org/external-news/business-leaders-visit-kruger-park-to-learn-about-anti-poaching-measures/) - CEOs from various companies visited the Kruger National Park on Friday to learn about what SANParks is doing to help curb rhino poaching, with the hopes of receiving funding from the private sector. One foundation has assisted the Kruger National Park for three years, contributing about R80m towards anti-poaching measures
- [Animals given the freedom to move](https://www.peaceparks.org/external-news/enlisting-microsoft-azure-in-the-fight-against-rhino-poaching/) - The rangers at Thornybush love the added thrills since the fence that separated them from Timbavati fell.
- [What to expect from Microsoft Azure in South Africa](https://www.peaceparks.org/external-news/a-new-integrated-anti-poaching-approach-for-ezemvelo-rhino-reserves/) - An example of a live implementation of Azure tools is the solution built by the Peace Parks Foundation, a conservation organisation which fights rhino poaching in South Africa.
- [Community’s dedication helps turtles thrive](https://www.peaceparks.org/external-news/albino-rhinos-are-all-but-extinct/) - In the Ponta do Ouro Partial Marine Reserve in southern Mozambique, the local community are included in conservation efforts: they closely monitor turtles and fish catches, and ensure that poaching is kept to a minimum. It’s a conservation success story, supported by the Peace Parks Foundation and implemented Africa-style.

## Slides

- [Latest News](https://www.peaceparks.org/home-slider/our-stories/) - Leadership programme for protected area management across the SADC region, starting in southern Mozambique
- [Latest from PeaceParks.TV](https://www.peaceparks.org/home-slider/latest-from-peace-parks-tv/) - Limpopo to Banhine: A connected landscape supporting people and sustaining nature
- [Peace Parks 2025 Annual Review](https://www.peaceparks.org/home-slider/flooding-emergency-mozambique/)
- [Landscapes](https://www.peaceparks.org/home-slider/landscapes/) - In the last decade, we have focused on five transboundary landscapes with a combined size of 675 990 km². Central to our mission are the Indigenous people and local communities, who are the custodians of these landscapes.
- [About Peace Parks Foundation](https://www.peaceparks.org/home-slider/about-peace-parks-foundation/) - We work across five priority transboundary landscapes in 10 key protected areas linked by 7 key wildlife corridors
- [Our impact](https://www.peaceparks.org/home-slider/our-impact/) - Over the past 26 years, Peace Parks has facilitated the establishment of 10 transboundary conservation areas spanning 11 African countries.
- [Communities](https://www.peaceparks.org/home-slider/communities/) - Through our Community Development Programmes we promote economic growth and development for people living within transfrontier conservation areas.
- [Conservation Finance](https://www.peaceparks.org/home-slider/innovative-conservation-finance/) - From carbon credits, to biodiversity funds, conservation bonds and tourism, we work towards the financial sustainability of all the parks we work in.
- [Conservation](https://www.peaceparks.org/home-slider/conservation/) - By the end of 2023, Peace Parks Foundation had rewilded 18 167 animals to previously degraded areas and we have seen the populations grow to an estimated 100 000 in the parks we co-manage.
- [Who we are](https://www.peaceparks.org/home-slider/our-vision/) - Established on 1 February 1997, Peace Parks Foundation was founded by HRH Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, President Nelson Mandela and Dr Anton Rupert to facilitate the establishment of transfrontier conservation areas in southern Africa.

## Blocks

- [Community Development](https://www.peaceparks.org/home-content-blocks/commitment/) - Strengthening the resilience of communities against the effects of climate change
- [Conservation at Scale](https://www.peaceparks.org/home-content-blocks/conservation-at-scale/) - Reconnect, restore and conserve wild spaces
- [Conservation Finance](https://www.peaceparks.org/home-content-blocks/innovative-conservation-finance/) - Enable the financial sustainability of key protected areas

## Donors or Partners

- [European Union](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/innovation-2/) - Under the NaturAfrica programme, the European Union supports a set of priority transboundary landscapes across southern Africa, including Nyika–North Luangwa, Great Limpopo, Lower Zambezi–Mana Pools and the Zimbabwe–Mozambique–Zambia area. Support focuses on strengthening livelihoods, conserving biodiversity and improving governance.
- [German Postcode Lottery](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/german-postcode-lottery/) - Deutsche Postcode Lotterie supports community development and rewilding projects in Zinave National Park and Banhine National Park as well as our Combatting Wildlife Crime programme in Mozambique and Zambia.
- [People's Postcode Lottery](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/peoples-postcode-lottery/) - People's Postcode Lottery UK supported our rhino conservation efforts in the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Conservation Area. As of 2024, Peace Parks is a grateful long-term beneficiary of the People's Postcode Lottery.
- [Swedish Postcode Lottery](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/swedish-postcode-lottery/) - Svenska Postkod Lotteriet, the Swedish Postcode Lottery, has been steadfastly supporting the conservation efforts of Peace Parks Foundation since 2010.
- [National Postcode Lottery](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/dutch-postcode-lottery/) - Nationale Postcode Loterij, the Dutch Postcode Lottery, has been a steadfast supporter of Peace Parks Foundation since 2003.
- [Drostdy Hotel](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/drostdy-hotel/) - The Drostdy Hotel supports the SA College for Tourism through Peace Parks Foundation.
- [Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/bureau-of-international-narcotics-and-law-enforcement-affairs/) - The United States Government, through its Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs INL), supports our Rhino Protection Programme, as well as efforts to combat the trafficking of natural resources within the KAZA TFCA region as well as Mozambique.
- [Department of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/department-of-agriculture-forestry-and-fisheries/) - The DEFF is a vital partner in transfrontier conservation initiatives that span South African borders, and specifically plays a very significant role in the planning and execution of the Rhino Protection Programme .
- [Tui Care Foundation](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/tui-care-foundation/) - With support from the TUI Care Foundation, we are protecting forest habitats, supporting communities, and increasing local participation in nature-based tourism in Maputo National Park.
- [UBS](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/ubs/) - UBS supports the expansion of Herding for Health in Mozambique.
- [Mozambique Wildlife Alliance](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/mozambique-wildlife-alliance/) - The Mozambique Wildlife Alliance provides veterinary support in Banhine, Limpopo, Maputo and Zinave national parks.
- [Giraffe Conservation Foundation](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/giraffe-conservation-foundation/) - Giraffe Conservation Foundation is a collaboration partner on giraffe conservation projects in the transboundary landscapes where Peace Parks operates.
- [Conservation International](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/conservation-international/) - CI, through Conservation South Africa (CSA), has joined forces with us in the development of the Herding for Health Programme and specifically via AFD Pro-Nature funding, enabled implementation of the H4H model around Simala Community Conservancy.
- [Conservation Solutions](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/conservation-solutions/) - Conservation Solutions supports the translocation of wildlife throughout southern Africa.
- [Commonland](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/commonland/) - Peace Parks has collaborated with Commonland to distribute fuel-efficient cookstoves and establish a successful carbon credit model in the Simalaha Community Conservancy, Zambia.
- [Exxaro Chairman's Fund](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/exxaro/) - Exxaro donated 25 white rhino through a partnership with Peace Parks Foundation to Zinave National Park in Mozambique.
- [Exxaro Chairman's Fund](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/exxaro-chairmans-fund/) - Exxaro has donated both black and white rhino, through a partnership with Peace Parks Foundation, to Zinave National Park (ZNP) in Mozambique where Peace Parks has a long-term co-management agreement with the country’s National Administration for Conservation Areas.
- [SACT](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/sact/) - The College is supported by Peace Parks Foundation and collaborates through a cooperation agreement to achieve shared goals in wildlife conservation and education.
- [Cartier for Nature](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/cartier-for-nature/) - Cartier Philanthropy through its Cartier for Nature Initiative supports the implementation of the Herding For Health - Conserving leopard and other predators in South-West Zambia programme. The project is being rolled out in H4H in areas around the Simalaha Community Conservancy, and has a direct link to the conservation of apex and meso-predators in the
- [Cartier](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/cartier/) - In the past, Cartier supported the Saving Spots leopard protection programme in the Kavango Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area, and were also the founding donor of the Furs for Life leopard programme in South Africa.
- [The Hunger Project](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/the-hunger-project/) - The Hunger Project and Peace Parks are collaborating on a project to develop an Epi-centre in the surrounds of Zinave National Park, Mozambique
- [South African National Parks](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/south-african-national-parks/) - Peace Parks' partnership with SANParks spans two decades and four transfrontier conservation areas: Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, /Ai/Ais – Richtersveld Transfrontier Park, Greater Mapungubwe TFCA and the Great Limpopo TFCA that includes Kruger National Park. They also support the SA College for Tourism.
- [Malawi Department of National Parks and Wildlife](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/malawi-department-of-national-parks-and-wildlife/) - We collaborate closely with Malawi Department of National Parks and Wildlife on matters pertaining to the Malawian components of the Malawi-Zambia Transfrontier Conservation Area.
- [Convention on Migratory Species](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/convention-on-migratory-species/) - The Convention supports the Great Limpopo, Kavango-Zambezi, Lubombo, and Lower Zambezi-Mana Pools TFCAs to strengthen the institutional capacities, to enhance integrated, aligned and collaborative resource management and joint decision-making; and to support the effective development and implementation of policies, strategies, plans and initiatives.
- [Centre for International Forestry Research of Jalan (CIFOR)](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/centre-for-international-forestry-research-of-jalan-cifor/) - Support contributes to a landscape approach to sustainable development and management that includes both the Mize (MCC) and Simalaha (SCC) Community Conservancies in Kazungula District, part of Southern Province, Zambia, together forming a landscape corridor between Chobe and Kafue National Parks.
- [Tusk Trust](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/tusk-trust/) - A Tusk Conservation Award grant supports the Conservation Training and Awareness Centre in Maputo National Park, Mozambique.
- [International Climate Initiative (IKI)](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/international-climate-initiative-iki/) - The International Climate Initiative supports Peace Parks Foundation as an Implementing Agent for Zambia under the GIZ-led Growing Greener programme. The project focuses on rangeland restoration and establishment of agrihubs and value-chains around Simalaha Community Conservancy.
- [Nyika Vwaza (UK) Trust](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/nyika-vwaza-uk-trust/)
- [World Wildlife Fund](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/wwf-namibia/) - We work in partnership with WWF-Netherlands, WWF-Zambia and WWF-Namibia to support the implementation of various projects in the Kavango Zambezi TFCA, including through the Biodiverse Landscapes Fund "Road 2 Resilience" programme.
- [World Children's Prize](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/world-childrens-prize/) - The World Children’s Prize partnered with Peace Parks Foundation in the Peace & Changemakers Generation project focussed on youth education, girls’ rights and combatting wildlife crime.
- [Velocity Trade](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/velocity-trade/) - Velocity Trade loyally supports our Combating Wildlife Crime Programme.
- [USAID](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/usaid/) - USAID’s VukaNow Programme supports the development of Insight, the Anti-Poaching Toolbox, that will democratise applied knowledge and solutions relating to the combatting of wildlife crime.
- [Turner Foundation](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/turner-foundation/) - The Turner Foundation supported the Herding 4 Health project that form part of our Veterinary Research and Community Development Programmes.
- [Sophia Foundation](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/sophia-foundation/) - The Sophia Foundation supports Field Rangers in the transboundary landscapes where Peace Parks operate
- [SAWC](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/sawc/) - The Southern African Wildlife College's founder partners include Peace Parks Foundation and WWF South Africa, who together with its other strategic partners including South African National Parks and SADC, share the vision of building the capacity of staff in wildlife areas.
- [SADC TFCA FF](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/sadc-tfca-ff/) - The SADC TFCA Financing Facility, hosted by the IUCN supports Peace Parks through a Livelihood project in Limpopo National Park.
- [Reinet Foundation](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/reinet-foundation/) - The Reinet Foundation provides funding for tourism development in Maputo National Park Mozambique, as well as supports various efforts under the Rhino Protection Programme.
- [National Administration for Conservation Areas](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/national-administration-for-conservation-areas/) - ANAC is the conservation authority in Mozambique. We partner closely with them to protect and develop Limpopo, Banhine and Zinave National Parks, and surrounding protected space as part of the Great Limpopo TFCA; as well as the Maputo National Park.
- [Mozbio](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/mozbio/) - MozBio supports the development of Maputo National Park in the Lubombo TFCA.
- [MAVA Fondation pour la Nature](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/mava-fondation-pour-la-nature/) - MAVA Fondation pour la Nature provided foundational support to community development in the Simalaha Community Conservancy, Zambia as well as support to the Southern African Wildlife College through Peace Parks.
- [KfW Stiftung](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/kfw-stiftung/) - Supports the Southern Africa Wildlife College with funding for students as well as module development.
- [KfW](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/kfw/) - KfW supports Limpopo National Park, the establishment of wildlife corridors in the Kavango Zambezi TFCA, and the Nyika-North Luangwa component of the Malawi-Zambia TFCA.
- [Hansjörg Wyss](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/wyss-foundation/) - Mr Hansjörg Wyss supports tourism development in Maputo National Park, Mozambique.
- [Greater Kruger Environmental Protection Foundation](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/greater-kruger-environmental-protection-foundation/) - Peace Parks partners with, and supports, the collaborative efforts of the Greater Kruger Environmental Protection Foundation (GKEPF) to protect important rhino populations on Kruger National Park’s western boundary.
- [Global Environment Facility](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/global-environment-facility/) - GEF is also supporting EarthRanger (funds flow via CI) in Limpopo and Zinave National Parks
- [German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/german-federal-ministry-of-economic-cooperation-and-development/) - The Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) supported community development projects in the !Ae!Hai Kalahari Heritage Park as part of the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park.
- [GEOS Foundation](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/geos-foundation/) - Global Exploration and Oceanographic Society (GEOS) provides support to the vital work of Field Rangers and Peace Parks' Combatting Wildlife Crime Programme.
- [Fondation Prince Albert II de Monaco](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/fondation-prince-albert-ii-de-monaco/) - Fondation Prince Albert II de Monaco supported the development and management of Maputo National Park and a water security project in Limpopo National Park, Mozambique.
- [Fondation Ensemble](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/fondation-ensemble/) - Fondation Ensemble supported sustainable fishing and alternative livelihoods in the Ponta do Ouro Partial Marine Reserve in Mozambique.
- [Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/ezemvelo-kzn-wildlife/) - We partner with Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife in the protection and development of South African component of the Lubombo TFCA, working closely to protect Africa’s rhino through the Rhino Protection Programme.
- [Endangered Wildlife Trust](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/endangered-wildlife-trust/) - Endangered Wildlife Trust (EWT) supports Peace Parks with the development and implementation of scientifically-based wildlife conservation practices.
- [Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/deutsche-gesellschaft-fur-internationale-zusammenarbeit/) - GIZ supports PPF in various landscapes with implementaion of the herding for health model, and agricultural and livelihood activities.
- [COmON Foundation](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/comon-foundation/) - Established and supports Community Development Facilities in the Maputo National Park in the Lubombo TFCA, sustainable development and management of the Banhine National Park in the Great Limpopo TFCA, the Simalaha Community Conservancy in the Kavango Zambezi TFCA, Nyika National Park and Vwaza Marsh Wildlife Reserve in Malawi-Zambia TFCA, as well as the Southern African
- [Centro Terra Viva](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/centro-terra-viva/) - CTV is our preferred research partner in the Maputo National Park. Their role includes reef monitoring, catch monitoring, World Heritage Site dossier research and mangrove assessments.
- [Biofund](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/biofund/) - Biofund supports the development of Limpopo National Park, Banhine National Park, and Maputo National Park in Mozambique.
- [Animal Friends Pet Insurance](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/animal-friends-pet-insurance/) - Animal Friends Insurance supports ongoing efforts to stop the wildlife poisoning in the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Conservation as well contributing to the Tracker Academy.
- [African Wildlife Foundation](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/african-wildlife-foundation/) - The African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) supports our Combatting Wildlife Crime programme with a specific focus on supporting the dog detection unit at Maputo International Airport, Mozambique.
- [French Facility for Global Environment (FFEM)](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/french-facility-for-global-environment-ffem/) - French Facility for Global Environment (FFEM) supports the One Limpopo One Health project.
- [Rio Tinto](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/rio-tinto/) - Rio Tinto is supporting Peace Parks and other partners in assessing the potential for a large-scale, landscape-level Nature-based Solutions project in Kwa-Zulu Natal.
- [Van Vlissingen](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/van-vlissingen-family/) - The Van Vlissingen Family provided support to law enforcement efforts in Luenge-Luiana National Park.
- [Pula Properties Ltd](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/pula-properties-ltd/) - Pula supports Herding For Health in Greater Mapungubwe TFCA.
- [PON Bike](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/pon-bike-2/) - PON supported rangers in the Kavango Zambezi, Lubombo and Great Limpopo TFCAs with bicycles and related equipment.
- [Agence Française de Développement](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/agence-francaise-de-developpement/) - AFD supports the development of Limpopo National Park and Simalaha Community Conservancy.
- [Lenz & Staehelin](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/lenz-staehelin/) - Lenz & Staehelin is the world’s Swiss law firm, serving global clients from our Geneva, Lausanne and Zurich offices. Our 200+ expert lawyers cover all areas of business law, providing many of the world’s leading companies, organisations and private individuals with insightful advice.
- [Blue Action Fund](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/blue-action-fund/) - Blue Action Fund supports Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) in Maputo National Park. This is a five-year project aimed at marine ecosystem protection and restoration, community-based fisheries management, and community livelihoods projects to alleviate pressure on marine resources...
- [Camões — Institute for Cooperation and Language, Public Institute](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/karin-holmstrom/) - Camões I.P supports the communities and biodiversity of Maputo National Park.
- [Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/swedish-international-development-cooperation-agency/) - SIDA, through FORUMCIV, provided funding for a pre-study on development and land-use opportunities in the Greater Libombos Conservancy as part of the Great Limpopo TFCA.
- [Richemont](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/richemont/) - Richemont is a Peace Parks Club 21 member that supports multiple conservation projects across southern Africa.
- [EarthToday](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/earthtoday/) - EarthToday aims to accelerate funding for global nature protection through a multi-faceted engagement program. Through the Join EarthToday program anyone can sponsor a square meter of land, or more, in protected areas managed by Peace Parks and its partners.
- [TRAFFIC](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/traffic/) - In addition to a partnership in the first phases of the Chi demand reduction campaign, Peace Parks works with TRAFFIC to support the development of safe and effective collaborative efforts to combat the poaching and trafficking of natural resources in the KAZA TFCA.
- [Tswalu Kalahari Private Game Reserve](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/tswalu-kalahari-private-game-reserve/) - The Tswalu Kalahari Private Game Reserve provides land and training facilities to Tracker Academy, a training division of the SA College for Tourism which operates under the auspices of the Peace Parks Foundation
- [Samara Private Game Reserve](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/samara-private-game-reserve/) - Samara Private Game Reserve provides land and training facilities to Tracker Academy, a training division of the SA College for Tourism which operates under the auspices of the Peace Parks Foundation
- [Londolozi Game Reserve](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/brain-power/) - Londolozi game reserve provides land and training facilities to Tracker Academy, a training division of the SA College for Tourism which operates under the auspices of the Peace Parks Foundation
- [Wildlife Justice Commission](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/wildlife-justice-commission/) - Peace Parks and WWF-Netherlands jointly supported the founding of the Wildlife Justice Commission, which has grown and evolved into a robust organisation that is committed to disrupting transnational, organised wildlife crime.
- [Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/zimbabwe-parks-and-wildlife-management-authority/) - We collaborate closely with ZimParks on matters pertaining to the Zimbabwean components of the Great Limpopo, Mapungubwe, and Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Areas.
- [Zambia Department of National Parks and Wildlife](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/zambia-department-of-national-parks-and-wildlife/) - We collaborate closely with DNPW on matters pertaining to the Zambian components of the Kavango-Zambezi, Liuwa Plains-Mussuma, Lower Zambezi – Mana Pools, and Malawi-Zambia Transfrontier Conservation Areas.
- [Wildlife Protection Solutions](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/wildlife-protection-solutions/) - Wildlife Protection Solutions is collaborating with Peace Parks in the development of innovative anti-poaching technologies as part of the Rhino Protection Programme.
- [Wilderness Foundation Africa](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/wilderness-foundation-africa/) - Wilderness Foundation Africa is the implementation partner and co-funder in the Vietnam Wild Rhino Demand Reduction Campaign as part of the Rhino Protection Programme.
- [Van Zyl](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/the-van-zyl-family/) - The Van Zyl Family supports hospitality and tracker training at the SA College for Tourism, and provides funding for anti-poaching support in Limpopo National Park. They also supported the Southern African Wildlife College through Peace Parks Foundation.
- [University of Pretoria](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/university-of-pretoria/) - Enhancing the powerful RhODIS® Rhino DNA Index System, Peace Parks partnered with UP’s Veterinary Genetics Laboratory in the development of eRhODIS™.
- [Total Landcare](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/total-land-care/) - TLC partners with us to support livelihoods programmes in the Malawi-Zambia TFCA.
- [TK Foundation](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/tk-foundation/) - The TK Foundation supports the SA College for Tourism through Peace Parks Foundation.
- [Thomson Reuters Foundation - TrustLaw](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/thomson-reuters-foundation-trustlaw/) - TrustLaw is supporting Peace Parks with the provision of pro bono legal services.
- [The World Bank](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/world-bank-mozbio/) - World Bank supports community development in Mozambique through MozBio, and played a role in the development of the Malawi-Zambia TFCA.
- [Stonehage Fleming](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/stonehage-fleming/) - Stonehage Fleming provides pro bono financial and investment services to Peace Parks Foundation.
- [SMART Partnership](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/smart-partnership/) - The foundation is a member of the Spatial Monitoring and Reporting Tool (SMART) Partnership. SMART allows for improved effectiveness of wildlife law enforcement patrols and site-based conservation activities.
- [Smart Parks](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/smart-parks/) - Smart Parks is supporting the development of sensors and pioneering communication networks for the Hlhuluwe-iMfolozi Smart Park as part of the Rhino Protection Programme.
- [Rupert Family Foundations](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/rupert-nature-foundation/) - The Rupert Family Foundations support the SA College for Tourism through Peace Parks Foundation.
- [ROAR Africa](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/roar-africa/) - ROAR Africa supports the SA College for Tourism's hospitality training programme.
- [Remgro](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/remgro/) - Remgro supports Peace Parks Foundation as a Club 21 Member, and assists the SA College for Tourism through Peace Parks Foundation.
- [Panthera](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/panthera/) - Peace Parks Foundation and Panthera partner in Leopard protection projects that aim to reduce the illegal hunting of these cats in South Africa, as well as in the Kavango Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area.
- [Outdoorphoto](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/outdoorphoto/) - Outdoorphoto started with a love for wildlife and its beauty, which is why they gladly partner with Peace Parks Foundation in our conservation efforts.
- [Old Mutual Foundation](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/creative-power/) - The Old Mutual Foundation supports the SA College for Tourism through Peace Parks Foundation.
- [Neville and Pamela Isdell](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/neville-and-pamela-isdell/) - The Isdell family provides support to Sioma Ngwezi National Park and the Simalaha Community Conservancy in the Kavango Zambezi TFCA. Previously they also supported the development of the Lubombo TFCA and the Rhino Protection Programme.
- [Nedbank Private Wealth Charitable Foundation](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/infinity-creative/) - Nedbank Private Wealth Charitable Foundation supports the SA College for Tourism through Peace Parks Foundation.
- [Nedbank Eyethu Community Trust](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/nedbank-eyethu-community-trust/) - Nedbank Eyethu Community Trust supports the SA College for Tourism through Peace Parks Foundation.
- [Microsoft](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/microsoft/) - Microsoft supports our Rhino Protection Programme with a specific focus on the development of cloud-based artificial intelligence technologies. They have also awarded AI for Earth grants to support the development of conservation agriculture and wildlife tracking technologies.
- [Meat Naturally](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/meat-naturally/) - Social enterprise, Meat Naturally, is a critical enterprise in the Herding 4 Health Programme.
- [Marsh Africa](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/innovation/) - Marsh Africa supports the SA College for Tourism through Peace Parks Foundation.
- [Jonsson Workwear](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/jonsson-workwear/) - Jonsson supports Peace Parks Foundation and the SA College for Tourism.
- [Jeff Blumberg](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/jeff-blumberg/) - Jeff Blumberg supports the Combatting Wildlife Crime Programme.
- [Jagersfontein Developments (Pty) Ltd](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/jagersfontein-developments-pty-ltd/) - Jagersfontein Developments supports the SA College for Tourism’s hospitality training programme.
- [International Fund for Animal Welfare](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/international-fund-for-animal-welfare/) - IFAW supports anti-poaching efforts in the Malawi-Zambia TFCA
- [International Conservation Caucus Foundation](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/international-conservation-caucus-foundation/) - The ICCF provides partners with the opportunity to educate a wide audience of policymakers and business leaders in the US, in order to develop relationships to achieve market-oriented solutions worldwide in conservation and sustainability.
- [Hans Hoheisen Charitable Trust](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/brain-power-2/) - The Hans Hoheisen Charitable Trust supports the SA College for Tourism through Peace Parks Foundation.
- [Francesca Saager](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/francesca-saager/) - Mrs Francesca Saager supports the SA College for Tourism's Adopt-a-Student programme through Peace Parks Foundation.
- [EuropeAID](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/europeaid/) - Through a partnership with Sustainable Agriculture Technologies, EuropeAID supports the combatting of wildlife crime in the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Conservation Area.
- [ESRI](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/esri/) - PPF is a proud recipient of the Esri Conservation Program grant, allowing PPF access to the entire Esri suite of tools.
- [Embassy of Finland](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/infinity-creative-2/) - The Embassy of Finland supports the SA College for Tourism through Peace Parks Foundation.
- [Duke Gin](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/duke-gin/) - Duke Gin supports the anti-poaching canine unit in Limpopo National Park.
- [Distell](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/creative-power-2/) - The Distell Development Trust supports the SA College for Tourism through Peace Parks Foundation.
- [De Beers Group](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/de-beers-group/) - The De Beers Group provides support for rewilding and anti-poaching efforts in Zinave and Limpopo National Parks, Mozambique.
- [Council for Scientific and Industrial Research](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/council-for-scientific-and-industrial-research/) - Peace Parks partners with the CSIR in the development of ground-breaking radar technologies that are securing large areas of critical rhino habitat in Kruger National Park, Great Limpopo TFCA.
- [Coalition for Private Investment in Conservation](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/coalition-for-private-investment-in-conservation/) - The CPIC is a global multi-stakeholder initiative focused on enabling conditions that support a material increase in private, return-seeking investment in conservation.
- [Cape Union Mart](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/cape-union-mart/) - Cape Union Mart supports the Tracker Academy, SA College for Tourism.
- [Botswana Department of Wildlife and National Parks](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/4498/) - We collaborate closely with DWNP on matters pertaining to the Botswana components of the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park and the Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area.
- [BCP](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/bcp/) - We have partnered with BCP (Biocarbon Partners) to secure the continent’s most vital wildlife habitat areas by harnessing the income generation of Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+) carbon offsets.
- [Anglo American](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/michael-venter/) - The Anglo American Chairman’s Fund supports the SA College for Tourism through Peace Parks Foundation, whilst the Anglo American Group Foundation supports anti-poaching efforts through to Limpopo and Zinave National Parks through De Beers.
- [Afrikakompaniet](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/afrikakompaniet/) - Afrikakompaniet is a travel agency in Sweden specialising in sustainable tourism in southern and East Africa, who make an annual donation to us from booking proceeds.
- [African Community and Conservation Foundation](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/african-community-and-conservation-foundation/) - ACCF has partnered with PPF, through Friends of the Peace Parks Inc., USA, to raise awareness and funding for key conservation projects and transformative community programs carried out in Africa.
- [Gerber Family](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/gerbers/) - Mr Ulrich & Mrs Doris Gerber support the SA College for Tourism
- [Handler Family](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/handlers/) - Ms Michelle and Ms Shira Handler support the SA College for Tourism
- [Hoogenhout Family](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/hoogenhout/) - Mr Niel & Mrs Nelia Hoogenhout support the SA College for Tourism
- [Rawles Family](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/rawles/) - Mr Tom & Mrs Linda Rawles support the SA College for Tourism
- [Taylor & Mariéthoz](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/taylor-mariethoz/) - Mr Guillaume Taylor and Ms Corinne Mariéthoz support the SA College for Tourism
- [Dr Hilary Rolton](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/dr-hilary-rolton/) - Dr Hilary Rolton supports the SA College for Tourism
- [Leigh Ord](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/leigh-ord/) - Mrs Leigh Ord supports the SA College for Tourism
- [Riette Malherbe](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/riette-malherbe/) - Mrs Riette Malherbe supports the SA College for Tourism
- [Namco Share Investments](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/namco-share-investments/) - Mr J Malherbe supports the SA College for Tourism through Namco Share Investments
- [Deborah Calmeyer](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/deborah-calmeyer/) - Mrs Deborah Calmeyer supports the SA College for Tourism
- [Edwin de la Harpe Hertzog](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/edwin-de-la-harpe-hertzog/) - Dr Edwin de la Harpe Hertzog supports the SA College for Tourism
- [Inna van Heerden](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/inna-van-heerden/) - Mrs Inna van Heerden supports the SA College for Tourism
- [JP Theart](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/jp-theart/) - Mr JP Theart supports the SA College for Tourism
- [Werner Myburgh](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/werner-myburgh/) - Mr Werner Myburgh supports the SA College for Tourism
- [Beth Kushner](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/beth-kushner/) - Mrs Beth Kushner supports the SA College for Tourism
- [Stephen Falcke](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/stephen-falcke/) - Stephen Falcke supports the SA College for Tourism
- [Patricia de Lara](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/patricia-de-lara/) - Patricia de Lara supports the SA College for Tourism
- [Escape Safaris](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/test/) - Escape Safaris Co (Pty) Ltd supports the SA College for Tourism
- [Pussycat Foundation](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/pussycat-foundation/) - The Pussycat Foundation supports the SA College for Tourism.
- [Longenbaugh and Gordon](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/longenbaugh-and-gordon/) - Mr Dwayne and Mrs Marj Longenbaugh, and Mrs Liz Gordon support the SA College for Tourism
- [Anel Trust](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/anel-trust/) - Anel Trust supports the SA College for Tourism
- [Inzi Eco Tourism](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/inzi-eco-tourism/) - Inzi Eco Tourism supports the SA College for Tourism
- [Bergplaas](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/bergplaas/) - Bergplaas supports the SA College for Tourism
- [SA Airlink (Pty) Ltd.](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/sa-airlink-pty-ltd/) - SA Airlink (Pty) Ltd. supports the SA College for Tourism
- [Singita](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/8718/) - Singita supports the SA College for Tourism
- [Thornybush Collection](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/thornybush-collection/) - Thornybush supports the SA College for Tourism.
- [Rand Merchant Bank](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/rand-merchant-bank/) - Rand Merchant Bank supports the SA College for Tourism
- [Firearm Management Services](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/firearm-management-services/) - Firearm Management Services supports the Tracker Academy, SA College for Tourism.
- [Conservation SA](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/conservation-sa/) - Conservation South Africa supports the Herding Academy, SA College for Tourism.
- [Schiller Family](https://www.peaceparks.org/donors-partners/the-schiller-family/) - The Schiller Family supports the SA College for Tourism’s hospitality training programme.

## Members

- [President Cyril Ramaphosa](https://www.peaceparks.org/team-members/president-cyril-ramaphosa/)
- [President Professor Arthur Peter Mutharika](https://www.peaceparks.org/team-members/president-lazarus-mccarthy-chakwera/)
- [His Majesty King Mswati III](https://www.peaceparks.org/team-members/his-majesty-king-mswati-iii/)
- [President Dr Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa](https://www.peaceparks.org/team-members/president-dr-emmerson-dambudzo-mnangagwa/)
- [Chrisna Fryer](https://www.peaceparks.org/team-members/chrisna-fryer/) - With a background in Industrial Psychology and over 10 years of Human Resources experience across diverse sectors, Chrisna brings a strong people-centred approach aligned with organisational effectiveness. Chrisna is passionate about creating meaningful impact in people’s lives while supporting teams and organisations to thrive.
- [Brad Poole](https://www.peaceparks.org/team-members/brad-poole/) - Brad has been working in the environmental and conservation sector for the more than 20 years and has accumulated vast experience in the development and implementation of a diverse suite of conservation, nature-based tourism and social development programmes. His qualifications include a Diploma in Financial Information Systems and Diploma in Advanced Project Management. His skills
- [Colin Porteous](https://www.peaceparks.org/team-members/colin-porteous/) - Colin Porteous is a highly experienced investment professional, with a passion for conservation and social impact – endeavouring to make conservation a commercially attractive asset class. Colin was born in Johannesburg and grew up spending as much time as possible in nature. He obtained his honours in Finance and a post graduate diploma in Accounting
- [Lize-Mari Lynch](https://www.peaceparks.org/team-members/lize-mari-lynch/) - As Chief Financial Officer of Peace Parks Foundation, Lize is responsible for all finance and corporate governance matters. Lize comes from an auditing and banking background. After finishing her Bachelors in accounting degree at the University of Stellenbosch in 2000, she continued her training at PwC in Stellenbosch whilst finishing her Honours in Accounting through
- [His Majesty the Litunga, Lubosi Imwiko II  of the Western Province](https://www.peaceparks.org/team-members/his-majesty-the-litunga-lubosi-imwiko-ii-of-the-western-province-zambia/)
- [Anne-Katherine du Toit-Scharling](https://www.peaceparks.org/team-members/anne-katherine-du-toit-scharling/)
- [Kate Ohlhoff](https://www.peaceparks.org/team-members/kate-ohlhoff/)
- [Cobus Theron](https://www.peaceparks.org/team-members/cobus-theron/)
- [Grant Staples Zunckel](https://www.peaceparks.org/team-members/grant-staples-zunckel/)
- [Stephen Wright](https://www.peaceparks.org/team-members/stephen-wright/)
- [JP Theart](https://www.peaceparks.org/team-members/jp-theart/)
- [Donald Sutton](https://www.peaceparks.org/team-members/donald-sutton/)
- [Walubita Sifuniso](https://www.peaceparks.org/team-members/walubita-sifuniso/)
- [Verna Appollis](https://www.peaceparks.org/team-members/carolyn-hutton/) - Verna is a seasoned Human Resources professional with over 25 years of experience, including nine years in senior leadership roles. As a Chartered HR Professional (SABPP), she is known for her strategic insight and operational excellence. She is passionate about people development, organisational effectiveness, and creating inclusive, values-driven workplaces. Verna has a proven track record
- [Ghislain Rieb](https://www.peaceparks.org/team-members/ghislain-rieb/) - Ghislain Rieb is an experienced Senior Programme Manager with a background spanning various roles in international development and environmental conservation. Ghislain has been with Peace Parks Foundation in southern Africa since October 2022. He oversees regional biodiversity initiatives and plays a key role in programmes related to Zambia, Malawi and Zimbabwe. Prior to joining Peace
- [Kule Chitepo](https://www.peaceparks.org/team-members/kule-chitepo-director-greater-mana-pools-ecosystem/)
- [Ms Skumsa Mancotywa](https://www.peaceparks.org/team-members/ms-skumsa-mancotywa/)
- [Dr Themba Mhlongo](https://www.peaceparks.org/team-members/dr-themba-mhlongo/)
- [Mr Hlobsile Sikhosana](https://www.peaceparks.org/team-members/mr-hlobsile-sikhosana/)
- [Mr Colgar Sikopo](https://www.peaceparks.org/team-members/mr-colgar-sikopo/)
- [Dr Fulton Mangwanya](https://www.peaceparks.org/team-members/mr-fulton-mangwanya/)
- [Mr Teofilus Nghitila](https://www.peaceparks.org/team-members/mr-teofilus-nghitila/)
- [Chauncy Simwaka](https://www.peaceparks.org/team-members/chauncy-simwaka/)
- [Ms Hapiloe Sello](https://www.peaceparks.org/team-members/ms-hapiloe-sello/)
- [Mr Evans Muhanga](https://www.peaceparks.org/team-members/mr-evans-muhanga/)
- [Mr Rui Lisboa](https://www.peaceparks.org/team-members/mr-rui-lisboa/)
- [Mr Brighton Kumchedwa](https://www.peaceparks.org/team-members/mr-brighton-kumchedwa/)
- [Mr Stanley Damane](https://www.peaceparks.org/team-members/mr-stanley-damane/)
- [His Majesty King Letsie III](https://www.peaceparks.org/team-members/his-majesty-king-letsie-iii/)
- [President João Lourenço](https://www.peaceparks.org/team-members/president-joao-lourenco/)
- [President Hakainde Hichilema](https://www.peaceparks.org/team-members/president-hakainde-hichilema/)
- [President Daniel Francisco Chapo](https://www.peaceparks.org/team-members/president-daniel-francisco-chapo/)
- [Loraine Bewsher](https://www.peaceparks.org/team-members/loraine-bewsher/)
- [Chizamsoka Manda](https://www.peaceparks.org/team-members/mr-humphrey-nzima/)
- [Bernard van Lente](https://www.peaceparks.org/team-members/bernard-van-lente/)
- [Siewert Groenewald](https://www.peaceparks.org/team-members/siewert-groenewald/)
- [Wayne Brider](https://www.peaceparks.org/team-members/justice-ncube/)
- [Lésa van Rooyen](https://www.peaceparks.org/team-members/lesa-van-rooyen/)
- [Jason Gilbertson](https://www.peaceparks.org/team-members/jason-gilberson/)
- [Lee-Anne Robertson](https://www.peaceparks.org/team-members/lee-anne-robertson/)
- [Gillian Rhodes](https://www.peaceparks.org/team-members/gillian-rhodes/)
- [Pravin Pillay](https://www.peaceparks.org/team-members/pravin-pillay/)
- [Gavin Shaw](https://www.peaceparks.org/team-members/gavin-shaw/)
- [Hayley Elwen](https://www.peaceparks.org/team-members/heyley-elwin/)
- [Dr Jamie McCallum](https://www.peaceparks.org/team-members/jamie-mccallum/) - Director: UK and EU
- [Tiaan Kleynhans](https://www.peaceparks.org/team-members/tiaan-kleynhans/)
- [Antony Alexander](https://www.peaceparks.org/team-members/antony-alexander/) - Antony joined Peace Parks in 2010 in the position of Project Manager for the development of Limpopo National Park (Mozambique) focusing primarily on including resettlement, community, anti-poaching and infrastructure programmes. In 2017 with the expansion of Peace Parks Mozambique portfolio he has subsequently filled the position of Programme Manager based in Maputo, Mozambique where he
- [Dr Bartolomeu Soto](https://www.peaceparks.org/team-members/dr-bartolomeu-soto-2/) - Dr Soto has a Masters in Environment and Development (University of Kwazulu Natal), BSc in Wildlife Diseases (University of Pretoria) and Degree in Veterinary Medicine (Universidade Eduardo Mondlane). He has 28 years of experience in the management and development of conservation areas, national parks, wildlife, natural resources and environmental management, of which the last 26
- [Helena Atkinson](https://www.peaceparks.org/team-members/helena-atkinson/) - Helena is an avid wildlife photographer and hiker, often seeking adventures in the great outdoors. With a diverse background and extensive experience in community development, conservation, eco-tourism and environmental education, Helena brings a wealth of knowledge to our organisation. Helena's professional journey includes serving as the Director of Conservation with Pangolin.Africa and managing a cross-border
- [Sonja Rabé](https://www.peaceparks.org/team-members/sonja-rabe/) - Sonja is a strategic communicator and brand leader with a passion for connecting purpose-led organisations to audiences that drive change. Born in Hong Kong and Dutch by nationality, Sonja has lived and worked across Asia, Europe, North America and the UK. Her 20-year career in broadcast and digital media has been shaped by leading communications
- [Lilian Spijkerman](https://www.peaceparks.org/team-members/lilian-spijkerman/) - Lilian is a seasoned fundraiser and communicator driven by a passion for nature and people. Born and raised in the Netherlands and trained as an Environmental Engineer and Physical Geographer, she spent much of her initial career in remote areas in the Amazon, the Andes and the Philippines. Her 20-year journey working in nature conservation
- [George Nxumayo](https://www.peaceparks.org/team-members/george-nxumayo/)
- [Ms CC Rupert](https://www.peaceparks.org/team-members/ms-cc-rupert/)
- [Mr M Msimang](https://www.peaceparks.org/team-members/mr-m-msimang/)
- [Ms LM Lynch](https://www.peaceparks.org/team-members/ms-lm-lynch/)
- [Jhr Drs JHW Loudon](https://www.peaceparks.org/team-members/drs-jhw-loudon/)
- [Mr JS Loftie-Eaton](https://www.peaceparks.org/team-members/mr-john-loftie-eaton/)
- [Mr EN Isdell](https://www.peaceparks.org/team-members/mr-en-isdell/)
- [Mr AS Hoffmann](https://www.peaceparks.org/team-members/mr-a-hoffmann/)
- [Mr NH Döman](https://www.peaceparks.org/team-members/mr-hein-doman/)
- [Mr TA Boardman](https://www.peaceparks.org/team-members/mr-ta-boardman/)
- [Mr JA Chissano](https://www.peaceparks.org/team-members/mr-ja-chissano/)
- [Werner Myburgh](https://www.peaceparks.org/team-members/werner-myburgh/) - Werner joined Peace Parks in 1998, serving in various capacities before being appointed Chief Executive Officer in 2008. Leading a team that has achieved an average annual growth of 25% since 2010. Provides leadership for a staff component of around 400 with an annual budget of USD 30-50 million. The average annual running costs of
- [Ms KMV Harris](https://www.peaceparks.org/team-members/dr-fe-raimondo/)
- [President Peter Mutharika](https://www.peaceparks.org/team-members/president-peter-mutharika/)
- [Mr Rule Jimmy Opelo](https://www.peaceparks.org/team-members/mr-rule-jimmy-opelo/)
- [Mr Abias Huongo](https://www.peaceparks.org/team-members/mr-abias-huongo/)
- [Mr W Myburgh](https://www.peaceparks.org/team-members/mr-w-myburgh/)
- [Mr JP Rupert](https://www.peaceparks.org/team-members/mr-jp-rupert/)

## Videos

- [Episode 3: Taking Flight](https://www.peaceparks.org/ppf_video/episode-3-taking-flight/)
- [Maputo Special Reserve: Celebrating 60 years](https://www.peaceparks.org/ppf_video/maputo-special-reserve-celebrating-60-years/)
- [Rewilding the Simalaha Community Conservancy](https://www.peaceparks.org/ppf_video/rewilding-the-simalaha-community-conservancy/)
- [Building a future for Zinave National Park](https://www.peaceparks.org/ppf_video/building-a-future-for-zinave-national-park/)
- [Supporting anti-poaching in Nyika National Park](https://www.peaceparks.org/ppf_video/supporting-anti-poaching-in-nyika-national-park/)
- [Meet Natercio Ngovene: A decade of unyielding dedication](https://www.peaceparks.org/ppf_video/meet-natercio-ngovene-a-decade-of-unyielding-dedication/)
- [Meet Emilda Augusto Mudau: Maputo Special Reserve, Mozambique](https://www.peaceparks.org/ppf_video/meet-emilda-augusto-mudau-maputo-special-reserve-mozambique/)
- [Meet Eric Chamsa: Nyika National Park, Malawi](https://www.peaceparks.org/ppf_video/meet-eric-chamsa-nyika-national-park-malawi/)
- [Supporting communities in Malawi](https://www.peaceparks.org/ppf_video/supporting-communities-in-malawi/)
- [Simalaha Community Conservancy: Treadle pumps](https://www.peaceparks.org/ppf_video/simalaha-community-conservancy-treadle-pumps/)
- [A clan is Born - series preview](https://www.peaceparks.org/ppf_video/a-clan-is-born-trailer/)
- [A Clan is Born Episode 2: The journey begins](https://www.peaceparks.org/ppf_video/a-clan-is-born-episode-2-the-journey-begins/)
- [A Clan is Born Episode 1: Baiting in the Dark](https://www.peaceparks.org/ppf_video/a-clan-is-born-episode-1-baiting-in-the-dark/)
- [Nyika National Park](https://www.peaceparks.org/ppf_video/nyika-national-park/)
- [Celebrating World Migratory Bird Day 2020](https://www.peaceparks.org/ppf_video/celebrating-world-migratory-bird-day-2020/)
- [Banhine National Park: A Journey of Discovery](https://www.peaceparks.org/ppf_video/banhine-national-park-a-journey-of-discovery/)
- [Dog Detection Unit: Maputo International Airport](https://www.peaceparks.org/ppf_video/dog-detection-unit-maputo-international-airport/)
- [Limpopo National Park: taking a stand against wildlife crime](https://www.peaceparks.org/ppf_video/limpopo-national-park-taking-a-stand-against-wildlife-crime/)
- [Translocations: looking back on 2019](https://www.peaceparks.org/ppf_video/translocations-looking-back-on-2019/)
- [Disrupting wildlife crime with leading tech](https://www.peaceparks.org/ppf_video/disrupting-wildlife-crime-with-leading-tech/)
- [Rewilding Africa: Eland to Maputo Special Reserve](https://www.peaceparks.org/ppf_video/rewilding-africa-eland-to-maputo-special-reserve/)
- [Rewilding Africa: Mozambique](https://www.peaceparks.org/ppf_video/rewilding-africa-mozambique/)
- [Exporting wildlife tracking skills: Rwanda](https://www.peaceparks.org/ppf_video/exporting-wildlife-tracking-skills-rwanda/)
- [Saving Spots](https://www.peaceparks.org/ppf_video/saving-spots/)
- [World Ranger Day 2019](https://www.peaceparks.org/ppf_video/world-ranger-day-2019/)
- [Enter the mighty buffalo](https://www.peaceparks.org/ppf_video/enter-the-mighty-buffalo/)
- [Zebra and Giraffe travel to Zinave](https://www.peaceparks.org/ppf_video/zebra-and-giraffe-travel-to-zinave/)
- [Entangled: a sea turtle rescued](https://www.peaceparks.org/ppf_video/entangled-a-sea-turtle-rescued/)
- [Celebrating biodiversity](https://www.peaceparks.org/ppf_video/celebrating-biodiversity/)
- [2019 Young Environmental Ambassadors camp](https://www.peaceparks.org/ppf_video/2019-young-environmental-ambassadors-camp/)
- [Snares - Africa's silent killer](https://www.peaceparks.org/ppf_video/snares-africas-silent-killer/)
- [Hlawula Vutomi - Choosing Life](https://www.peaceparks.org/ppf_video/hlawula-vutomi-choosing-life/)
- [Moving Giants episode 1: Is there such a thing as too many elephants?](https://www.peaceparks.org/ppf_video/is-there-such-a-thing-as-too-many-elephants-2/)
- [Moving Giants episode 2: Born to Rewild](https://www.peaceparks.org/ppf_video/born-to-rewild/)
- [Moving Giants episode 3: Risky Business](https://www.peaceparks.org/ppf_video/moving-giants-episode-3-risky-business/)
- [Moving Giants episode 4: Family Ties](https://www.peaceparks.org/ppf_video/moving-giants-episode-4-family-ties/)
- [Moving Giants episode 5: Elephant Guardians](https://www.peaceparks.org/ppf_video/moving-giants-episode-5-elephant-guardians/)
- [Moving Giants episode 6: On the Road](https://www.peaceparks.org/ppf_video/moving-giants-episode-6-on-the-road/)
- [Moving Giants episode 7: The Journey Continues](https://www.peaceparks.org/ppf_video/moving-giants-episode-7-the-journey-continues/)
- [Moving Giants: Largest elephant translocation in South Africa’s history](https://www.peaceparks.org/ppf_video/is-there-such-a-thing-as-too-many-elephants/)
- [Rewilding Africa: 2018](https://www.peaceparks.org/ppf_video/rewilding-africa-2018/)
- [Rewilding Africa: Maputo Special Reserve](https://www.peaceparks.org/ppf_video/rewilding-africa-maputo-special-reserve/)
- [China and the rhino: reconnecting, inspiring, protecting](https://www.peaceparks.org/ppf_video/china-and-the-rhino-reconnecting-inspiring-protecting/)
- [500 Animals journey from Kruger to Zinave](https://www.peaceparks.org/ppf_video/500-animals-journey-from-kruger-to-zinave/)
- [Second Chances - a rhino orphan story](https://www.peaceparks.org/ppf_video/second-chances-a-rhino-orphan-story/)
- [Great Limpopo TFCA Youth Engagement](https://www.peaceparks.org/ppf_video/great-limpopo-tfca-youth-engagement/)
- [Furs for Life Educational Film](https://www.peaceparks.org/ppf_video/furs-for-life-educational-film/)
- [Rhino Orphans - Their lives in our hands](https://www.peaceparks.org/ppf_video/rhino-orphans-their-lives-in-our-hands/)
- [Vietnamese youth: Ambassadors for the rhino](https://www.peaceparks.org/ppf_video/vietnamese-youth-ambassadors-for-the-rhino/)
- [Vietnam Youth say NO to Rhino Horn](https://www.peaceparks.org/ppf_video/vietnam-youth-say-no-to-rhino-horn/)
- [Rewilding Zinave](https://www.peaceparks.org/ppf_video/this-is-a-video-one-name-lorem-ipsum-dolor-sit-amet-consectetur-adipiscing/)
- [New life for Elephants in Nyika National Park](https://www.peaceparks.org/ppf_video/this-is-a-video-two-name-lorem-ipsum-dolor-sit-amet-consectetur-adipiscing/)
- [Using Cloud Computing and AI to protect rhino](https://www.peaceparks.org/ppf_video/this-is-a-video-three-name-lorem-ipsum-dolor-sit-amet-consectetur-adipiscing/)
- [Hiding in the dark: Saving lives in Kruger National Park](https://www.peaceparks.org/ppf_video/hiding-in-the-dark-saving-lives-in-kruger-national-park/)
- [By design: Connecting the people of China with the rhino](https://www.peaceparks.org/ppf_video/by-design-connecting-the-people-of-china-with-the-rhino/)
- [Congratulations to a true custodian of nature!](https://www.peaceparks.org/ppf_video/this-is-a-video-four-name-lorem-ipsum-dolor-sit-amet-consectetur-adipiscing/)

## Publications

- [2025](https://www.peaceparks.org/publications/2025/)
- [Malawi Operational Status Report 2024](https://www.peaceparks.org/publications/malawi-operational-status-report/)
- [Zambia Operational Status Report 2024](https://www.peaceparks.org/publications/zambia-operational-status-report-2024/)
- [Mozambique Operational Status Report 2024](https://www.peaceparks.org/publications/mozambique-impact-report-2024/)
- [2024](https://www.peaceparks.org/publications/2024-annual-review/)
- [Malawi Impact Report 2023](https://www.peaceparks.org/publications/malawi-impact-report-2023-2/)
- [Zambia Impact Report 2023](https://www.peaceparks.org/publications/malawi-impact-report-2023/)
- [Mozambique Impact Report 2023](https://www.peaceparks.org/publications/mozambique-impact-report-2023/)
- [2022](https://www.peaceparks.org/publications/2022/)
- [2023](https://www.peaceparks.org/publications/2023/)
- [2021](https://www.peaceparks.org/publications/annual-review-2021/)
- [2020](https://www.peaceparks.org/publications/9850/)
- [2019](https://www.peaceparks.org/publications/2019/)
- [2018](https://www.peaceparks.org/publications/2018/)
- [2017](https://www.peaceparks.org/publications/2017/)
- [2016](https://www.peaceparks.org/publications/2016/)
- [2015](https://www.peaceparks.org/publications/2015/)
- [2014](https://www.peaceparks.org/publications/2014/)
- [2013](https://www.peaceparks.org/publications/2013/)
- [2012](https://www.peaceparks.org/publications/2012/)

## Timelines

- [Mozambican January 2026 Floods](https://www.peaceparks.org/timelines/mozambican-january-2026-floods/)
- [Our Journey Timeline](https://www.peaceparks.org/timelines/our-journey-timeline/)
- [Lubombo](https://www.peaceparks.org/timelines/lubombo/)
- [Kavango-Zambezi](https://www.peaceparks.org/timelines/kavango-zambezi/)
- [Great Limpopo TFCA](https://www.peaceparks.org/timelines/great-limpopo-tfca/)
- [Combatting Wildlife Crime](https://www.peaceparks.org/timelines/combatting-wildlife-crime/)
- [Lower Zambezi Mana Pools](https://www.peaceparks.org/timelines/lower-zambezi-mana-pools/)
- [SA College for Tourism](https://www.peaceparks.org/timelines/sa-college-for-tourism/)
- [Malawi-Zambia TFCA](https://www.peaceparks.org/timelines/malawi-zambia-tfca/)
- [Liuwa Plains - Massuma](https://www.peaceparks.org/timelines/liuwa-plains-massuma/)
- [Kgalagadi TFP](https://www.peaceparks.org/timelines/kgalagadi-tfp/)
- [/Ai /Ais-Richtersveld](https://www.peaceparks.org/timelines/ai-ais-richtersveld/)
- [Maloti-Drakensberg TFCA](https://www.peaceparks.org/timelines/maloti-drakensberg-tfca/)
- [Greater Mapungubwe](https://www.peaceparks.org/timelines/greater-mapungubwe/)

## Memberships

- [Corporate Membership](https://www.peaceparks.org/memberships/corporate-membership/) - $50 000
- [Individual Membership](https://www.peaceparks.org/memberships/individual-membership/) - $5 000

## TFCA's

- [Lubombo](https://www.peaceparks.org/tfcas/lubombo/) - Lubombo includes four distinct transfrontier conservation areas between Mozambique, South Africa and The Kingdom of eSwatini, covering a total area of 11 236 km².
- [Kavango Zambezi](https://www.peaceparks.org/tfcas/kavango-zambezi/) - The Kavango Zambezi (KAZA) transboundary landscape spans an area of approximately 520 000 km² and includes 36 proclaimed protected areas across Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe converge. It is the largest peace park on the planet.
- [Malawi-Zambia](https://www.peaceparks.org/tfcas/malawi-zambia/) - The Malawi-Zambia Transfrontier Conservation Area encompasses 32 278 km² and incorporates national parks, wildlife reserves, forest reserves and game management areas.
- [Lower Zambezi-Mana Pools](https://www.peaceparks.org/tfcas/lower-zambezi-mana-pools/) - Measuring 18 515km², the Lower Zambezi-Mana Pools transboundary landscape is composed of the 4 092 km2 Lower Zambezi National Park in Zambia, and the 2196 km2 Mana Pools National Park in northern Zimbabwe, with the mighty Zambezi running through its centre. It is a massive wildlife sanctuary straddling a mighty river, a mosaic of game
- [Great Limpopo](https://www.peaceparks.org/tfcas/great-limpopo/) - This 100 000 km² park links the Limpopo, Zinave and Banhine national parks in Mozambique, the Kruger National Park in South Africa, and the Gonarezhou National Park in Zimbabwe.

## Parks

- [Maputo National Park](https://www.peaceparks.org/parks/maputo-special-reserve/) - OUR WORK Conservation at scale Maputo National Park is an essential component of the Lubombo Transfrontier Conservation and Resource Area as it enables linkages between a mosaic of marine, coastal and inland components with important conservation value and excellent potential for high-value tourism. This World Heritage Site combines lakes, wetlands, swamp forests, grasslands and mangrove
- [Tembe Elephant Park](https://www.peaceparks.org/parks/tembe-elephant-park/) - OUR WORK Conservation at Scale Tembe Elephant Park was established in 1983 to protect the lives and property of the Tembe people from elephants. About 300 km2 in size and bordering on Mozambique to the north, the park has a high density of wildlife, including keystone species such as lions, wild dogs and the
- [Limpopo National Park](https://www.peaceparks.org/parks/limpopo-national-park/) - OUR WORK Conservation at scale This 9,259 km2 park borders on Kruger National Park in South Africa and is bounded by both the Limpopo and Olifants rivers. With the mighty Shingwedzi flowing through its heart, Limpopo National Park is populated with a wide range of wildlife, boasts breathtaking scenery and offers exciting wilderness experiences. A
- [Zinave National Park](https://www.peaceparks.org/parks/zinave-national-park/) - OUR WORK Conservation at scale The park is an integral part of the Mozambican component of the Great Limpopo transboundary landscape. In 2015, a long-term co-management agreement was signed between Mozambique’s National Administration for Conservation Areas (ANAC) and Peace Parks. This park will sustain and restore the landscape dynamics of the larger ecosystem and enhance
- [Mana Pools](https://www.peaceparks.org/parks/mana-pools/) - OUR WORK Conservation at scale The 2 196 km2 Mana Pools wildlife conservation area and national park is located in the northernmost part of Zimbabwe along the Lower Zambezi River. It was inscribed in 1984 by UNESCO as a world heritage site. The long-term partnership agreement between Peace Parks and Zimbabwean Government underscores a shared
- [Sioma Ngwezi National Park](https://www.peaceparks.org/parks/sioma-ngwezi-national-park/) - OUR WORK Conservation at scale Within the Zambia component of the Kavango Zambezi transboundary landscape lies the Sioma Ngwezi National Park and the Zambezi West Game Management Area, together referred to as the Sioma Ngwezi Management Complex. The area was declared by the Litunga – the King of the Barotse Royal Establishment – as a
- [Vwaza Marsh Wildlife Reserve](https://www.peaceparks.org/parks/vwaza-marsh-wildlife-reserve/) - OUR WORK Conservation at Scale Vwaza Marsh Wildlife Reserve embraces a flagship wetland conservation programme. Despite its modest 100 000 ha at the westernmost edge of Malawi, Vwaza throws a celebration of scenery, plentiful species and irreplaceable ecosystem functions. Woodlands and wildlife accompany its wetlands, with a notable highlight being the largest elephant population in
- [Nyika National Park](https://www.peaceparks.org/parks/nyika-national-park/) - OUR WORK Conservation at scale Nyika National Park is Malawi’s largest national park located on the Nyika Plateau, a relatively large highland massif sitting on the international boundary between Malawi and Zambia. As a mountain catchment area, the plateau plays a significant role in providing opportunities to conserve several ecosystem services, firstly, as a catchment
- [Simalaha Community Conservancy](https://www.peaceparks.org/parks/simalaha-community-conservancy/) - OUR WORK Conservation at scale The Conservancy is fundamental to re-establishing wildlife populations and their migration routes in the Kavango Zambezi (KAZA) Transfrontier Conservation Area – the biggest terrestrial cross-border conservation system in the world – connecting 36 protected areas across Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe. The Conservancy comprises 180 000 ha of communal
- [Banhine National Park](https://www.peaceparks.org/parks/banhine-national-park/) - OUR WORK Conservation at scale Banhine National Park was established in 1973 to conserve the giraffe and ostrich populations found there. It is often referred to as the mini-Okavango Delta of Mozambique due to its extensive wetlands. It is situated in central southern Mozambique, midway between Pafuri in the west and Vilanculos in the east.
- [Nyika North Luangwe](https://www.peaceparks.org/parks/nyika-north-luangwa/) - OUR WORK Within the Nyika-North Luangwa component of the TFCA, PPF is focusing on the development of the Nyika Plateau, Vwasa Marsh Wildlife Reserve/Lundazi Forest and the Chama Block in the Musalanga GMA. Nyika is Malawi’s largest national park located on the Nyika Plateau, a relatively large highland massif located on the international boundary between
- [Ponta do Ouro Partial Marine Reserve](https://www.peaceparks.org/parks/ponta-do-ouro-partial-marine-reserve/) - OUR WORK COMMITMENT In 2008, Peace Parks was instrumental in the establishment of Ponta do Ouro as Africa’s first marine transfrontier conservation area. In 2018, we signed a partnership agreement with Mozambique’s National Administration of Conservation Areas (ANAC) to jointly develop Maputo Special and Ponta do Ouro Partial Marine reserve according to a strategic business
- [Kasungu-Lukusuzi](https://www.peaceparks.org/parks/kasungu-lukusuzi/) - OUR WORK CONSERVATION Peace Parks' focus in this component is on community involvement in natural resource management and restoring connectivity between the protected areas. Skilled Capacity We ensure the efficient execution of projects by making sure that key staff are recruited and trained. This includes anything from educating park managers in best practice for joint
- [Ndumo Game Reserve](https://www.peaceparks.org/parks/ndumo-game-reserve/) - Our work In partnership with local conservation agency, Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife, we were tasked by the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Agriculture, Environmental Affairs and Rural Development to undertake social facilitation and community consultation as part of the Ndumo Intervention Programme. This initiative aims to assist the Bhekabantu and Mbangweni communities living on the eastern border of

## Categories

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- [Great Limpopo TFCA](https://www.peaceparks.org/category/great-limpopo-tfca/)
- [Banhine National Park](https://www.peaceparks.org/category/great-limpopo-tfca/banhine-national-park/)
- [Zinave National Park](https://www.peaceparks.org/category/great-limpopo-tfca/zinave-national-park/)
- [SA College for Tourism](https://www.peaceparks.org/category/sa-college-for-tourism/)
- [Lubombo TFCA](https://www.peaceparks.org/category/lubombo-tfca/)
- [Maputo Special Reserve](https://www.peaceparks.org/category/lubombo-tfca/maputo-special-reserve/)
- [Southern African Wildlife College](https://www.peaceparks.org/category/southern-africa-wildlife-college/)
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- [Malawi Zambia TFCA](https://www.peaceparks.org/category/malawi-zambia-tfca/)
- [Simalaha Community Conservancy](https://www.peaceparks.org/category/kavango-zambezi-tfca/simalaha-community-conservancy/)
- [Lower Zambezi - Mana Pools TFCA](https://www.peaceparks.org/category/lower-zambezi-mana-pools-tfca/)
- [Maloti-Drakensberg TFCA](https://www.peaceparks.org/category/maloti-drakensberg-tfca/)
- [Kgalagadi TFP](https://www.peaceparks.org/category/kgalagadi-tfp/)
- [Rewilding](https://www.peaceparks.org/category/rewilding/)
- [!Ae!Hai Kalahari Heritage Park](https://www.peaceparks.org/category/kgalagadi-tfp/aehai-kalahari-heritage-park/)
- [Ponta do Ouro Partial Marine Reserve](https://www.peaceparks.org/category/lubombo-tfca/ponta-do-ouro-partial-marine-reserve/)
- [Sioma Ngwezi National Park](https://www.peaceparks.org/category/kavango-zambezi-tfca/sioma-ngwezi-national-park/)
- [Mozambique Community Development](https://www.peaceparks.org/category/lubombo-tfca/mozambique-community-development/)
- [Ngonye Falls Community Partnership Park](https://www.peaceparks.org/category/kavango-zambezi-tfca/ngonye-falls-community-partnership-park/)
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- [iSimangaliso Wetland Park](https://www.peaceparks.org/category/lubombo-tfca/isimangaliso-wetland-park/)
- [Luengue-Luiana National Park](https://www.peaceparks.org/category/kavango-zambezi-tfca/luengue-luiana-national-park/)
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- [Ndumo Game Reserve](https://www.peaceparks.org/category/lubombo-tfca/ndumo/)
- [Vietnam Wild Rhino](https://www.peaceparks.org/category/wildlife-crime/rhino-protection-programme/vietnam/)
- [Nyika National Park](https://www.peaceparks.org/category/malawi-zambia-tfca/nyika-national-park/)
- [Vwaza Marsh Wildlife Reserve](https://www.peaceparks.org/category/malawi-zambia-tfca/vwaza-marsh-wildlife-reserve/)
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## Tags

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- [Kavango Zambezi](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/kavango-zambezi/)
- [Zambia](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/zambia/)
- [ezemvelo kzn wildlife](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/ezemvelo-kzn-wildlife/)
- [anti-poaching](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/anti-poaching/)
- [charcoal](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/charcoal/)
- [deforestation](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/deforestation/)
- [wildlifecrime](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/wildlifecrime/)
- [peaceparks](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/peaceparks/)
- [charcoalbags](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/charcoalbags/)
- [Limpopo](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/limpopo/)
- [BatHawk](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/bathawk/)
- [Robin R44](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/robin-r44/)
- [Mozambique Parks](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/mozambique-parks/)
- [Great Limpopo](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/great-limpopo/)
- [Kruger National Park](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/kruger-national-park/)
- [Banhine](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/banhine/)
- [Conservation](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/conservation/)
- [TFCAs](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/tfcas/)
- [sewing](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/sewing/)
- [community development](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/community-development/)
- [community conservation](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/community-conservation/)
- [ponta do ouro](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/ponta-do-ouro/)
- [Maputo Special reserve](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/maputo-special-reserve/)
- [Women's day](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/womens-day/)
- [Mozambique colleges](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/mozambique-colleges/)
- [SA College for Tourism](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/sa-college-for-tourism/)
- [rewilding](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/rewilding/)
- [zinave national park](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/zinave-national-park/)
- [translocations](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/translocations/)
- [zebra](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/zebra/)
- [wildebeest](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/wildebeest/)
- [sanparks](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/sanparks/)
- [Barbara creecy](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/barbara-creecy/)
- [environmental affairs](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/environmental-affairs/)
- [greatlimpopo](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/greatlimpopo/)
- [counter poaching](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/counter-poaching/)
- [game rangers](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/game-rangers/)
- [logging](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/logging/)
- [sedia modise](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/sedia-modise/)
- [transfrontier conservation](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/transfrontier-conservation/)
- [Botswana](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/botswana/)
- [Peace parks](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/peace-parks/)
- [KAZA](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/kaza/)
- [werner myburgh](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/werner-myburgh/)
- [counter-poaching](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/counter-poaching-2/)
- [marine protection](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/marine-protection/)
- [world bank](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/world-bank/)
- [filipe nyusi](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/filipe-nyusi/)
- [mozambique](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/mozambique/)
- [marine conservation](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/marine-conservation/)
- [turtles](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/turtles/)
- [endangered wildlife](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/endangered-wildlife/)
- [turtle protection](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/turtle-protection/)
- [lubombo](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/lubombo/)
- [rhino poaching](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/rhino-poaching/)
- [rhino protection](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/rhino-protection/)
- [postcode lotteries](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/postcode-lotteries/)
- [rhinos](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/rhinos/)
- [wildlife tech](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/wildlife-tech/)
- [Meerkats](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/meerkats/)
- [camera technology](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/camera-technology/)
- [radars](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/radars/)
- [cheetah](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/cheetah/)
- [cheetahconservation](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/cheetahconservation/)
- [ewt](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/ewt/)
- [transfrontierconservation](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/transfrontierconservation/)
- [maputospecialreserve](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/maputospecialreserve/)
- [conservation news](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/conservation-news/)
- [environment news](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/environment-news/)
- [earthtoday](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/earthtoday/)
- [natureconservation](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/natureconservation/)
- [climatechange](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/climatechange/)
- [stopclimatechange](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/stopclimatechange/)
- [restoringnature](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/restoringnature/)
- [Cheetahs](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/cheetahs/)
- [Cheetah Conservation](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/cheetah-conservation/)
- [Endangered species](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/endangered-species/)
- [saving species](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/saving-species/)
- [nyika national park](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/nyika-national-park/)
- [nyika plateau](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/nyika-plateau/)
- [malawi conservation](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/malawi-conservation/)
- [lake malawi](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/lake-malawi/)
- [minister michael usi](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/minister-michael-usi/)
- [malawi tourism](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/malawi-tourism/)
- [vwaza marsh](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/vwaza-marsh/)
- [climate change](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/climate-change/)
- [carbon sinks](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/carbon-sinks/)
- [ecosystem restoration](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/ecosystem-restoration/)
- [ecosystems](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/ecosystems/)
- [United nations](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/united-nations/)
- [wildlife protection](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/wildlife-protection/)
- [nature conservation](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/nature-conservation/)
- [conservation ngos](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/conservation-ngos/)
- [zambia conservation](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/zambia-conservation/)
- [hakainde hichilema](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/hakainde-hichilema/)
- [zambia president](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/zambia-president/)
- [lion conservation](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/lion-conservation/)
- [lion photos](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/lion-photos/)
- [leopards](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/leopards/)
- [leopard translocation](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/leopard-translocation/)
- [rewilding africa](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/rewilding-africa/)
- [maputo national park](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/maputo-national-park/)
- [mozambique conservation](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/mozambique-conservation/)
- [lubombo transfrontier](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/lubombo-transfrontier/)
- [mozambique tourism](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/mozambique-tourism/)
- [biodiversity hotspots](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/biodiversity-hotspots/)
- [IUCN](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/iucn/)
- [communites](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/communites/)
- [COVID](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/covid/)
- [livelihoods](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/livelihoods/)
- [K9 handlers](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/k9-handlers/)
- [environmentalmonitors](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/environmentalmonitors/)
- [job creation](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/job-creation/)
- [black rhino](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/black-rhino/)
- [training](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/training/)
- [development](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/development/)
- [rangers](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/rangers/)
- [collaboration](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/collaboration/)
- [partnerships](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/partnerships/)
- [wetlands](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/wetlands/)
- [carbon](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/carbon/)
- [carbon storage](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/carbon-storage/)
- [water security](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/water-security/)
- [biodiversity](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/biodiversity/)
- [world wetlands day](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/world-wetlands-day/)
- [elephants](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/elephants/)
- [wild dog](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/wild-dog/)
- [apex predator](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/apex-predator/)
- [endangered wildlife trust](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/endangered-wildlife-trust/)
- [herding 4 health](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/herding-4-health/)
- [limpopo national park](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/limpopo-national-park/)
- [swedish postcode lottery](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/swedish-postcode-lottery/)
- [conservation international](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/conservation-international/)
- [SADC](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/sadc/)
- [ADP](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/adp/)
- [sustainable development](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/sustainable-development/)
- [coexistence](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/coexistence/)
- [regenerative farming](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/regenerative-farming/)
- [community](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/community/)
- [30X30](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/30x30/)
- [financial sustainability](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/financial-sustainability/)
- [UNSDGs](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/unsdgs/)
- [global targets](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/global-targets/)
- [COP15](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/cop15/)
- [Global Biodiversity Framework](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/global-biodiversity-framework/)
- [tourism](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/tourism/)
- [conservation at scale](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/conservation-at-scale/)
- [combatting wildlife crime](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/combatting-wildlife-crime/)
- [conservation campaign](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/conservation-campaign/)
- [ranger](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/ranger/)
- [wildlife ranger](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/wildlife-ranger/)
- [wildlife](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/wildlife/)
- [oceans](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/oceans/)
- [communities](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/communities/)
- [Blue Action Fund](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/blue-action-fund/)
- [comanagement](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/comanagement/)
- [Malawi](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/malawi/)
- [Banhine National Park](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/banhine-national-park/)
- [Predators](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/predators/)
- [The Bateleurs](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/the-bateleurs/)
- [Rhino Action Plan](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/rhino-action-plan/)
- [transboundary landscapes](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/transboundary-landscapes/)
- [rangelands](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/rangelands/)
- [herding for health](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/herding-for-health/)
- [Big Five](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/big-five/)
- [combattingwildlifecrime](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/combattingwildlifecrime/)
- [counterpoaching](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/counterpoaching/)
- [ConservationCollaboration](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/conservationcollaboration/)
- [conservation technology](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/conservation-technology/)
- [ecological linkages](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/ecological-linkages/)
- [Sustainable Livelihoods](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/sustainable-livelihoods/)
- [Agriculture](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/agriculture/)
- [Food for Africa](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/food-for-africa/)
- [Aerial Surveillance](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/aerial-surveillance/)
- [Combating WIldlife Crime](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/combating-wildlife-crime/)
- [K9 Anti-Poaching](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/k9-anti-poaching/)
- [Helicopter](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/helicopter/)
- [Ranger Training](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/ranger-training/)
- [Field Rangers](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/field-rangers/)
- [conservation agriculture](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/conservation-agriculture/)
- [Co-Management](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/co-management/)
- [Mana Pools](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/mana-pools/)
- [Zimbabwe](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/zimbabwe/)
- [co-management agreements](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/co-management-agreements/)
- [sustsainable livelihoods](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/sustsainable-livelihoods/)
- [Namibia](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/namibia/)
- [Peace Parks Patron](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/peace-parks-patron/)
- [Ecotourism](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/ecotourism/)
- [environmental sustainability](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/environmental-sustainability/)
- [Human-wildlife conflict](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/human-wildlife-conflict/)
- [Co-management Agreement](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/co-management-agreement/)
- [carbon finance](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/carbon-finance/)
- [Vwaza Marsh Wildlife Reserve](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/vwaza-marsh-wildlife-reserve/)
- [Sioma Ngwezi](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/sioma-ngwezi/)
- [GLTFCA](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/gltfca/)
- [Sustainability](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/sustainability/)
- [Skills Development](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/skills-development/)
- [livelihoods improvement programme](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/livelihoods-improvement-programme/)
- [iki growing greener'](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/iki-growing-greener/)
- [simalaha community conservancy](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/simalaha-community-conservancy/)
- [marine](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/marine/)
- [fisheries](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/fisheries/)
- [russell smart](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/russell-smart/)
- [peace parks foundation](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/peace-parks-foundation/)
- [tildah angoni](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/tildah-angoni/)
- [pilot](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/pilot/)
- [greater mana pools ecosystem](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/greater-mana-pools-ecosystem/)
- [Kule Chitepo](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/kule-chitepo/)
- [international women's day](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/international-womens-day/)
- [animal husbandry](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/animal-husbandry/)
- [Nawelwa Christine Muyunda](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/nawelwa-christine-muyunda/)
- [Barotse Royal Establishment](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/barotse-royal-establishment/)
- [Kafue Zambezi Community Forest Project](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/kafue-zambezi-community-forest-project/)
- [Zambezi](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/zambezi/)
- [anac](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/anac/)
- [ecological corridors](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/ecological-corridors/)
- [unesco](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/unesco/)
- [world heritage site](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/world-heritage-site/)
- [rhino translocation](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/rhino-translocation/)
- [kgalagadi transfrontier park](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/kgalagadi-transfrontier-park/)
- [nelson mandela](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/nelson-mandela/)
- [anniversary](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/anniversary/)
- [Festus Mogae](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/festus-mogae/)
- [isimangaliso wetland park](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/isimangaliso-wetland-park/)
- [earthranger](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/earthranger/)
- [Devil’s Claw](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/devils-claw/)
- [Harpagophytum procumbens](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/harpagophytum-procumbens/)
- [wwf zambia](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/wwf-zambia/)
- [The Department of National Parks and Wildlife](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/the-department-of-national-parks-and-wildlife/)
- [Angola](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/angola/)
- [Zambia and Zimbabwe](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/zambia-and-zimbabwe/)
- [Nyika National](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/nyika-national/)
- [climate](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/climate/)
- [fishing](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/fishing/)
- [communitiesclimate change](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/communitiesclimate-change/)
- [banco de sangala](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/banco-de-sangala/)
- [seagrass](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/seagrass/)
- [mangroves](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/mangroves/)
- [machangulo peninsula](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/machangulo-peninsula/)
- [machangulo](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/machangulo/)
- [Smart Park](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/smart-park/)
- [German Postcode Lottery](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/german-postcode-lottery/)
- [rachael sinyama](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/rachael-sinyama/)
- [redd+](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/redd/)
- [forestry](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/forestry/)
- [peace parks board](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/peace-parks-board/)
- [ppf board](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/ppf-board/)
- [Luísa Diogo](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/luisa-diogo/)
- [peace parks foundation board](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/peace-parks-foundation-board/)
- [peace parks team](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/peace-parks-team/)
- [peace parks foundation team](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/peace-parks-foundation-team/)
- [andrew nambota](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/andrew-nambota/)
- [Medal for Excellent Efforts](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/medal-for-excellent-efforts/)
- [Royal Patriotic Society](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/royal-patriotic-society/)
- [Royal Patriotic Society of Sweden](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/royal-patriotic-society-of-sweden/)
- [Christina von Arbin](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/christina-von-arbin/)
- [Robert Cygnaeus](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/robert-cygnaeus/)
- [human-wildlife coexistence](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/human-wildlife-coexistence/)
- [learning exchange](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/learning-exchange/)
- [co-management model](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/co-management-model/)
- [Nyika-Vwaza Co-management Trust](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/nyika-vwaza-co-management-trust/)
- [Daniel Francisco Chapo](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/daniel-francisco-chapo/)
- [Peace Parks Foundation patron](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/peace-parks-foundation-patron/)
- [Dr Luísa Dias Diogo](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/dr-luisa-dias-diogo/)
- [Peace Parks Foundation Board of Directors](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/peace-parks-foundation-board-of-directors/)
- [First female Prime Minister of Mozambique](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/first-female-prime-minister-of-mozambique/)
- [Mozambique floods](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/mozambique-floods/)
- [humanitarian crisis](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/humanitarian-crisis/)
- [flood relief](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/flood-relief/)
- [President Arthur Peter Mutharika](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/president-arthur-peter-mutharika/)
- [Malawi President](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/malawi-president/)
- [sustainable agriculture](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/sustainable-agriculture/)
- [Luengue-Luiana National Park](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/luengue-luiana-national-park/)
- [Angola conservation](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/angola-conservation/)
- [Angola’s National Institute of Biodiversity and Conservation Areas](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/angolas-national-institute-of-biodiversity-and-conservation-areas/)
- [Sioma Ngwezi Management Complex](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/sioma-ngwezi-management-complex/)
- [His Majesty the Litunga](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/his-majesty-the-litunga/)
- [Lubosi Imwiko II](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/lubosi-imwiko-ii/)
- [Kavango Zambezi (KAZA) Transfrontier Conservation Area](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/kavango-zambezi-kaza-transfrontier-conservation-area/)
- [white rhinos](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/white-rhinos/)
- [Great Limpopo Transfrontier Conservation Area](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/great-limpopo-transfrontier-conservation-area/)
- [Exxaro](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/exxaro/)
- [White Rhino Translocation](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/white-rhino-translocation/)
- [Mozambique's first big five park](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/mozambiques-first-big-five-park/)
- [LUTFCA](https://www.peaceparks.org/tag/lutfca/)

## Groups

- [Senior Management](https://www.peaceparks.org/team_groups/senior-management/)
- [Management](https://www.peaceparks.org/team_groups/management/)
- [Board of Directors](https://www.peaceparks.org/team_groups/board-of-directors/)
- [Honorary Patrons](https://www.peaceparks.org/team_groups/honorary-patrons/)
- [Advisory Committee](https://www.peaceparks.org/team_groups/advisory-committee/) - This committee brings together representatives from the wildlife authorities of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) member states to assist, in an ex officio capacity, with technical advice in the transfrontier conservation process and provide a forum for discussion of cross-border challenges.
- [Co-management Leadership: Special Purpose Vehicles (SPVs)](https://www.peaceparks.org/team_groups/co-management-leadership-special-purpose-vehicles-spvs/)

## Categories

- [Wildlife Crime](https://www.peaceparks.org/external_news_categories/wildlife-crime/)
- [TFCAs](https://www.peaceparks.org/external_news_categories/tfcas/)
- [Community Development](https://www.peaceparks.org/external_news_categories/community-development/)
- [Lubombo TFCA](https://www.peaceparks.org/external_news_categories/lubombo-tfca/)
- [Ponta do Ouro Partial Marine Reserve](https://www.peaceparks.org/external_news_categories/ponta-do-ouro-partial-marine-reserve/)
- [Marine Turtle Programme](https://www.peaceparks.org/external_news_categories/marine-turtle-programme/)
- [Great Limpopo TFCA](https://www.peaceparks.org/external_news_categories/great-limpopo-tfca/)
- [Kruger National Park](https://www.peaceparks.org/external_news_categories/kruger-national-park/)
- [General](https://www.peaceparks.org/external_news_categories/general/)
- [Kavango Zambezi TFCA](https://www.peaceparks.org/external_news_categories/kavango-zambezi-tfca/)
- [Sioma Ngwezi National Park](https://www.peaceparks.org/external_news_categories/sioma-ngwezi-national-park/)
- [Donors](https://www.peaceparks.org/external_news_categories/donors/)
- [Technology](https://www.peaceparks.org/external_news_categories/technology/)
- [Limpopo National Park](https://www.peaceparks.org/external_news_categories/limpopo-national-park/)
- [Southern African Wildlife College](https://www.peaceparks.org/external_news_categories/southern-african-wildlife-college/)
- [Zinave National Park](https://www.peaceparks.org/external_news_categories/zinave/)
- [Greater Mapungubwe TFCA](https://www.peaceparks.org/external_news_categories/greater-mapungubwe-tfca/)
- [GIS](https://www.peaceparks.org/external_news_categories/gis/)
- [SA College for Tourism](https://www.peaceparks.org/external_news_categories/sa-college-for-tourism/)
- [Herding for Health](https://www.peaceparks.org/external_news_categories/herding-for-health/)
- [Herding Academy](https://www.peaceparks.org/external_news_categories/herding-academy/)
- [Rhino Protection Programme](https://www.peaceparks.org/external_news_categories/rhino-protection-programme/)
- [Leopard Protection Programme](https://www.peaceparks.org/external_news_categories/leopard-protection-programme/)
- [Malawi Zambia TFCA](https://www.peaceparks.org/external_news_categories/malawi-zambia-tfca/)
- [Vwaza Marsh Wildlife Reserve](https://www.peaceparks.org/external_news_categories/vwaza-marsh-wildlife-reserve/)
- [Impact Investment](https://www.peaceparks.org/external_news_categories/impact-investment/)
- [Maputo National Park](https://www.peaceparks.org/external_news_categories/maputo-national-park/)
- [Rewilding](https://www.peaceparks.org/external_news_categories/rewilding/)

## Groups

- [Annual Reviews & Financial Statements](https://www.peaceparks.org/publication_groups/annual-reviews-financial-statements/)
- [Impact Reports](https://www.peaceparks.org/publication_groups/impact-reports/)