Government announces Bazaruto Park and Maputo Reserve tenders winners – Mozambique

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Government announces Bazaruto Park and Maputo Reserve tenders winners – Mozambique

11:28 CAT | 10 Feb 2017

File photo / Bazaruto

The National Administration of Conservation Areas of Mozambique announced this week that the tender for tourism concessions in the Bazaruto Archipelago National Park and Maputo Special Reserve launched on November 15 last year, closed on January 31 with two applicants chosen.

The Zimbabwean company “Far and Wide” has been granted the Zenguelemo concession in the Bazaruto Archipelago National Park, where 6.1 hectares is available for tourist development on Bazaruto Island, 27 kilometers from Inhassoro and 40 kilometers from Vilanculos, in front of the island of Santa Carolina.

An ecotourism camp, of the “Eco-Camp” type, with a maximum of 35 beds, is to be developed in partnership with the inhabitants of the Bazaruto Archipelago National Park.

The second competitor was “Chelsea Group Mozambique”, active since 2015 with Mozambican and English partners, which presented two proposals – one related to Zen Guelemo, and the other Ponta Membene in the Maputo Special Reserve.

With six hectares, it is located on the oceanic coast of the Maputo Special Reserve, five kilometers from the Zuali inspection post and 40 kilometers from the Futi entrance gate, between Ponta Chemucane and Ponta Mibing.

The aim is to develop a three-hectare integrated ecotourism project with an Eco Camp with a minimum of 20 beds and another three hectares with camping for 20 people. The maximum total capacity of the concession is 66 people.

Meanwhile, “MozBio” project works are ongoing in the Ponta de Ouro Partial Marine Reserve and the Maputo Special Reserve to house reserve officials and the Special Reserve administrator, and are expected to be completed by the end of March.

In connection with the “MozBio” project funding, Bartolomeu Soto, Director General of the National Administration of Conservation Areas, and the Director of Tourism and Sustainable Use of the National Administration of Conservation Areas, Samiro Magane, participated in the 45th sports hunting fair that ran from February 1 to 4 in the USA.

Earlier this week, rangers Eduardo Daniel Ngovene, António Hilário Chemane and Eduardo Jordão Mafume, all from the Limpopo National Park in Gaza province, left Maputo for the Southern Africa Wildlife College in South Africa, where they will attend a three-year course on nature conservation and management.

The three were selected in a competition last year, where inspectors from the national parks and reserves presented their applications for training at the college.

Of the 14 conservation areas in the country, only the Limpopo National Park competed. It sent eight applications to the Southern Africa Wildlife Colleg, of which three candidates were selected.

The Southern Africa Wildlife College requires candidates to have at least 12th grade and some proven work experience in the area of conservation of natural resources.

Course modules focus on subjects related to their area of origin, so they will be taking along with them the Limpopo National Park management plan and the legislation that regulates the activities of the sector in Mozambique.

The training of these officials is funded by the “Moz-Bio” project as part of the institutional human resources training program aimed at improving capacity to intervene in biodiversity protection and conservation activities in Mozambique.

Source: Canalmoz