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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 ...
The wildlife of Mozambique consists of ... many of these have little protection and many animals were severely ... particularly at Gorongosa National Park. ...
The Wildlife Photographer of the Year contest released its finalists for its People's Choice Award.. The winner of the contest, hosted by London's Natural History Museum, will be announced in ...
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 ...
Gorongosa National Park, halfway between Zimbabwe and Beira was a large tourist attraction. [3] After independence from Portugal in 1975, the Mozambican Civil War that took place in the newly independent country between 1977 and 1992 decimated the tourism industry and wildlife conservation in Mozambique. [1]