Africa Safari News and Travel

The plans to create the world’s largest game park in Africa are at last finalised at a meeting in Botswana in southern Africa.

The designed conservation area will overlap the borders of Botswana, Angola, Zimbabwe, Namibia and Zambia.

The newly created park will fetch in tourists from all parts of the world to such attractions as Okavango swamps, the Victoria Falls, Chobe National Park and Caprivi Strip. The officials taking part in this tourism venture believe that it will help to develop regional tourism ahead of the 2010 World Cup to take place in South Africa.

The prosposed Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Park will cost an estimated $100m to set up and is expected to contribute significantly to job creation in the five countries named above.

At the moment Africa’s largest game park is the 35,000-square-kilometre Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park on the borders of Mozambique, South Africa and Zimbabwe.

While the southern African region has full-size potential as an Africa safari destination, those assembled in Gaborone, Botswana’s capital, said that a lot needs to be done to bring in more tours to the region.

“The major issue is about sustainable tourism,” Botswana’s Tourism Minister Kitso Mokaila said. “Tourism is a revenue generator and therefore if we can get the conservation issue right then I think we can start talking more positively and more confidently about sustainable tourism.”

This conference yielded the future of Southern Africa tourism and Africa as a whole. This will raise the diversity of safari together with the frequency of tours made attractions in Africa.

Rwanda National Parks

Niokolo-Koba National Park in Senegal has been added to the list of World Heritage at risk from environmental threat by the World Heritage Committee of United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).

After carrying out reviews on the state of conservation of 830 heritage site, the committee, in New Zealand’s city of Christchurch, reached a final decision of including senegal’s safari park.

Niokolo-Koba National Park, located in Senegal’s eastern region is enormously threatened by the upcoming plan to construct a power dam on river Gambia, a few miles upstream from the park in addition to continuous poaching by the residents of the area. The uncontrolled regions bordering the 913,000 hectare park are affected by human activity leaving the park at risk.

This Park borders the Republic of Guinea to the southeast, is domicile to a diversity wildlife embracing the chimpanzees, elephants, antelopes, lions, species of monkeys, numerous reptiles that have been forced to migrate to adjoining Guinea to run away from drought in parts on this conservation area.

Lately, a few of the large savanna birds such as the Grand Abyssinia hornbill are the main safari attraction apart from a small number of spotted hyenas, hippos and wondering lions that are seen on a tour to this park.

UNESCO also included Galapagos Islands in Ecuador, on this list. The 19 islands located in the Pacific Ocean, approximately 1,000 km from the continent of South America, which form Galapagos Islands and the marine reserve neighborhood, comprise evolutions similar to a living museum and laboratory.
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Compiled by Grace