Zimbabwe-Mozambique-Zambia Transfrontier Park (ZIMOZA)will protect natural resources – Nyusi

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Zimbabwe-Mozambique-Zambia Transfrontier Park (ZIMOZA)will protect natural resources – Nyusi

4:16 CAT | 19 Jul 2024

Photo: Presidente Filipe Nyusi/Facebook

Mozambique’s President Filipe Nyusi said on Thursday that the agreement to create the ZIMOZA Transfrontier Conservation Area, signed today with Zimbabwe and Zambia, will encourage the sustainable use of natural resources.

According to a note from the president, the agreement signed today in Harare by the governments of the three countries bears witness to their commitment to the “effective and sustainable” management of natural resources.

“With this act, we witness our union for a noble cause in favour of the conservation of life, the conservation of the environment and natural resources on planet earth, through shared landscape approaches,” said the Mozambican President in Harare, adding that this area is rich in “biological resources”.

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The creation of the ZIMOZA Transfrontier Conservation Area, which covers the three countries, comes after 25 years of talks.

ZIMOZA covers a total area of 29,859 square kilometres of national parks and protected areas in the three countries. It is home to 600,000 people and boasts a unique diversity of plants and animals on the continent.

Zimbabwe Mozambique Zambia Transfrontier Conservation Area (ZIMOZA TFCA) Memorandum of Agreement Signing Ceremony: 18 July 2024.#zimozatfca #sadctfca #wildlifeconservation pic.twitter.com/yjYlu4xVG8

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According to information from Mozambique’s National Administration of Conservation Areas (ANAC), the ZIMOZA Transfrontier Conservation Area falls within the Zambezi landscape and involves all three countries.

“The discussion between the three member states began in August 1999 with the meeting in Harare,” ANAC recalls.

Quoted in the same ANAC report from last April, the director-general of Zimbabwe’s Parks and Wildlife Management Authority, Fulton Mangwanya, explained that ZIMOZA “will strengthen the monitoring and protection of the three countries”, with this agreement benefiting the communities “in terms of preserving biodiversity”.

“We hope to receive support from donors and international partners who will assist in implementing ZIMOZA, so that it becomes operational, as it has been in other transboundary conservation areas,” said Mangwanya.

Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Zambia (ZIMOZA) sign the ZIMOZA Trans-frontier Conservation Area (TCA) Memorandum of Agreement at State House in Harare.

H.E. President @edmnangagwa said the TCA will help in providing solutions to human wildlife conflict. About 600 000 people reside… pic.twitter.com/bv5MvFCr7n

— Presidential Communications Zimbabwe 🇿🇼 (@DeptCommsZW) July 18, 2024