Mozambique: World conservation event to feature “Our Gorongosa: A Park for the People”

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Mozambique: World conservation event to feature “Our Gorongosa: A Park for the People”

7:27 CAT | 23 Mar 2021

Image: Courtesy of Gorongosa National Park

Mozambique will be represented at the Smithsonian’s Earth Optimism Festival, an event with lectures and film screenings on environmental conservation, including one on the Gorongosa National Park (GNP).

The free and open virtual programme will run from 26 March to 04 April, organised from Cambridge, UK, and will bring together 30 conservation speakers from around the world.

The festival will, on Saturday 27, screen the 55-minute film “Our Gorongosa: A Park for the People”, focusing on Dominique Gonçalves, a young Mozambican elephant ecologist.

Dominique shares the story of how Gorongosa National Park aims to be a new model for wildlife conservation while promoting community development, especially educating girls and empowering women.

After decades of neglect due to the Mozambican civil war that ended in 1992, US philanthropist Greg Carr entered into an agreement with the Mozambican government to restore the park and its species.

The GNP is now one of the main conservation areas in the country and is also establishing itself as a research centre, attracting scientists from all over the world.

Located in Sofala province, it covers some four thousand square kilometres and presents itself as “Mozambique’s main national wildlife park”, located at the southern end of the East African Rift Valley.

Watch below the trailer of “Our Gorongosa: A Park for the People”, an award-winning film produced by Gorongosa Media and HHMI Tangled Bank Studios.

Can a community cohabit with over 100,000 animals? @GorongosaPark in Mozambique certainly thinks so, having become one of Africa’s most celebrated restoration stories. Showing 27 March as part of the #EarthOptimism #FilmFestival. https://t.co/P22eMp4a8g @Cambridge_Fest #CamFest pic.twitter.com/aWYtCS8Et4

— Cambridge Conservation Initiative (@CCI_Cambridge) March 14, 2021

This #InternationalWomensDay we’re celebrating the women of @GorongosaPark and their stories of conservation, education, and empowerment. Learn more about their impact in the award-winning film #OurGorongosa, streaming now on YouTube.https://t.co/I7PotQCfMW

— Tangled Bank Studios (@TangledBankHHMI) March 8, 2021