Zimbabwe, S. Africa Mozambique Pull Down Park Borders

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Zimbabwe, S. Africa Mozambique Pull Down Park Borders

Zimbabwe, South Africa and Mozambique have pulled down their national park borders to create the world's largest animal kingdom straddling the three countries,according to the Herald Tuesday.

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Zimbabwe, South Africa and Mozambique have pulled down their national park borders to create the world's largest animal kingdom straddling the three countries,according to the Herald Tuesday.

The new Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park comprises Zimbabwe's Gonarezhou National Park, South Africa's Kruger National Park and Mozambique's Gaza National Park.

Zimbabwean Minister of Environment and Tourism Francis Nhema said visitors to the park were no longer required to hold visas when they travel to Kruger National Park, Gaza National Park and Gonarezhou National Park in the Lowveld.

"The creation of the Great Transfrontier Park project was set to create massive employment activities and would keep Zimbabwe's tourism product more attractive," he said.

Nhema said there were no full-scale operations within the 90,000 square kilometers park because of the poor road network.

Ministers of tourism from the three countries met in Maputo, Mozambique, last week to discuss the progress made on the establishment of an international treaty that would regulate all matters concerning the Transfrontier Park.

"What is left now is for the three of us to establish a joint management board to carry over the daily activities of the big park. The board will come up with a management plan," he said.

"We also discussed the strategy for the three parks as it relates to tourism marketing of the countries and how surrounding communities will benefit through the project," he added.

The Zimbabwean minister stressed that branding of Great LimpopoPark would help in tourism development and this could increase tourist arrivals.

The development would add value to the three countries' economies and other regional states, as this would create a vibrant and sustainable tourism economy.

South Africa dismantled the dreaded electric fence that separated Kruger from Mozambique at the end of last year and translocated part of its 1,000 elephants into Gaza National Park of Mozambique at a cost of 20 million Zimbabwean dollars (about 363,636 US dollars).

The bulk of elephants would be translocated over the next threeyears.

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