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A preliminary effort to rebuild Gorongosa National Park's infrastructure and restore its wildlife began in 1994 when the African Development Bank (ADB) started work on a rehabilitation plan with assistance from the European Union and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Fifty new staff were hired, most of them former soldiers.
Vasco Galante, the national park’s director of communications, believes the revival of Gorongosa National Park is one of Africa’s greatest wildlife restoration success stories.
"How Gorongosa National Park went from civil war battlefield to conservation leader" by Heather Richardson – Independent, Feb 1, 2019 "Devastated by war, this African park's wildlife is now thriving - A generation after civil war, more than 100,000 large animals populate Mozambique's Gorongosa National Park, a rare spot of good news" by David ...
Protected areas in Mozambique are known as conservation areas, and are currently grouped into national parks, national reserves, forest reserves, wildlife utilisation areas (coutadas), community conservation areas, and private game farms (fazendas de bravio). There are also a number of areas that have been declared as protected areas under a ...
Criminal syndicates recruit gangs on the ground, supplying weapons and finances in return for wildlife products Wildlife crime generates over $20 billion annually says Mozambique’s national ...
The wildlife of Mozambique consists of ... many of these have little protection and many animals were severely ... particularly at Gorongosa National Park. ...
Gogogo Peak on Mount Gorongosa. Mount Gorongosa is an inselberg in Sofala Province of central Mozambique. Its highest peak, Gogogo, reaches an elevation of 1,863 meters (6,112 feet). It was created by Karoo Volcanism. [1] The upper zone of the mountain (above 700 meters) was made part of Gorongosa National Park by the Mozambican government in ...
Male in the Kruger National Park. The nyala is a spiral-horned and middle-sized antelope, between a bushbuck and a kudu. [16] It is considered the most sexually dimorphic antelope. [2] The nyala is typically between 135–195 cm (53–77 in) in head-and-body length. [2] The male stands up to 110 cm (43 in), the female is up to 90 cm (3.0 ft) tall.