Title:

Kavango-Zambezi (KAZA) Transfrontier Conservation Area

Abstract:

This expansive park is the world's largest transfrontier conservation area at approximately 520,000 km2, a size rivaling that of France. Occupying the Okavango and Zambezi river basins, it encompasses areas within the borders of Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe, and includes 36 formally proclaimed national parks and a host of game reserves, forest reserves, game management areas, and conservation and tourism concession areas designated for use of natural resources  in total, 11 categories of conservation area participate in the TFCA. Most well-known of the component parks are the Bwabwata National Park complex in the Caprivi Strip, Chobe National Park, the Okavango Delta (the largest Ramsar Site in the world) and the Victoria Falls (World Heritage Site and one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the world). Here, these counties have created an opportunity to harmonize regional legislation towards landscape approaches to conservation and the ecological sciences. The area also provides immeasurable eco-system services to the entire region.

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Language:
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