Mozambique’s Zinave National Park gets 18 new elephants tomorrow

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Mozambique’s Zinave National Park gets 18 new elephants tomorrow

2:07 CAT | 28 Sep 2016

A Bola

The National Administration of Conservation Areas (ANAC) is to move 18 elephants from South Africa to Zinave National Park, in Inhambane province, southern Mozambique, on Thursday 29 September.

This is the first batch of a total of 275 animals planned to be moved from South Africa and the Gorongosa National Park in central Mozambican over the course of the year.

The greeting party will be led by the Minister of Land, Environment and Rural Development, Celso Correia, and attended by senior members of ANAC and the Peace Parks Foundation (PPF,) which is funding the initiative.

By the end of 2021, a total of 500 gnus, 300 zebra, 1000 impala, 65 waterbuck, 150 eland, 50 kudos , 200 buffalo, 90 giraffe and 250 elephant will have been brought in.

Zinave National Park, located in the district of Mabote, received 100 animals in 2012 as part of its restocking program. They included zebra, gazelle, impala, buffalo, elephant and other species under threat as a result of the 16-year war and poaching.

The animals have come from the Kruger National Park in South Africa as part of an agreement to make the Zinave park more attractive for hunting tourism signed between Mozambique and South Africa.

Economic diplomacy to finance tourist infrastructure in the park is also under way to make the area more attractive to domestic and international tourists.

Source: A Bola