Mozambique: Norway to invest over four million dollars in marine ecosystem
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The German Government, through the German Development Bank (KfW), has signed an agreement for the donation of EUR 9 million to the trust fund of the Foundation for Biodiversity Conservation – BIOFUND.
The amount donated will be used to protect the environment, endangered species and to develop tourism, one of the four priority areas defined by the Mozambican Government in its Five Year Plan.
BIOFUND is an environmental foundation which has the goal to support the conservation of aquatic, marine, coastal and terrestrial biodiversity in Mozambique. This responsibility is important, given that Mozambique has conservation reserves with a total area of 209,000 square kilometres, making up about 26 percent of the total area of the country.
According to the German Ambassador in the country, Detlev Wolter, the German Federal Government is firmly on the side of Mozambique in promoting sustainable biodiversity and the protection of its wildlife and flora, which is unique in the south of Africa, reads a press release from the embassy.
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