Park, the size of Sweden, to straddle five countries
A huge new transfrontier park that will stretch from Angola in the west to Zimbabwe in the east - and estimated to be 15 times larger than the Serengeti in Tanzania - is being planned for Africa.
The Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area or Kaza will straddle five countries and include 36 existing national parks making it the largest nature area in the world. The new park is the result of an agreement between Angola, Namibia, Botswana, Zambia and Zimbabwe that was signed recently.
It will include well-known tourist attractions such as the Victoria Falls, the Okavango Delta and the Zambezi, Chobe-Linyanti, Kwando and Cuito river systems. There will be at least 3 000 species including more than 600 bird species across the savannahs, woodlands and wetlands.
Dr Deon Nel, head of the biodiversity unit at the World Wide Fund for Nature in South Africa has welcomed the legal establishment of this reserve. The treaty was signed in Luanda last month and will create a reserve that is about the size of Sweden, covering 450 000 square kilometres.
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