Mozambique’s Gorongosa National Park, which last year made Time’s Top 100 Places to Visit list, is sharing its bounty. The Peace Parks Foundation and its partners have sent 48 sable from Gorongosa to Zinave National Park to feed on its taller grasses after a decades-long absence.
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Meanwhile, Maputo Special Reserve (MPS) has welcomed 46 oribi (pictured above) – short-grass grazers that whistle when alarmed and are very vulnerable to people hunting with dogs – as well as 21 eland from Limpopo (MPS hasn’t seen eland tracks in nearly 30 years). The reintroduced pioneers will fill missing ecological niches in their new homes – and make tourists happy.
Protected areas now cover a quarter of Mozambique’s land, an impressive statistic when compared to SA, which in 2014 had almost nine per cent of terrestrial land under conservation. peaceparks.org
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