Major plans, including oil drilling and hydropower, are threatening wildlife and natural resource management across the five-nation Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (Kaza-TFCA). World Wildlife Fund (WWF) director in Namibia Juliane Zeidler said this at the just-ended 2025 Insaka Symposium held in Namibia. She said a number of activities are being planned in many parts of the Kaza-TFCA, such as drilling for oil in the Okavango River Basin in the Kavango East region, which lies near the elephant movement corridor in the Mangetti National Park. In Botswana, a part of the Kaza-TFCA is a licensed area for petroleum prospecting, while in Angola part of the Kaza-TFCA is proposed for hydropower projects. "There is a lot of planned development. We need to make sure all of them are well designed and developed with conservation in mind," Zeidler told The Namibian yesterday.