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	The Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park - Go2Africa Newsletter February 2006
		The Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park, at 35,000 sq km, is roughly the size of Belgium or Israel.
		The Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park spans the borders of South Africa and Botswana.
		Geographically, the transfrontier park consists of a broad swath of tropical, temperate and dry savannah.
	www.go2africa.com /newsletter/2006/02/great-limpopo.asp (1998 words)

	Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park c.13,500 sq mi (35,000 sq km; roughly the size of Belgium), the largest multinational park in S Africa and one of the largest parks in the world, in NE South Africa, SW Mozambique, and SE Zimbabwe; est.
		Geographically, the park consists of a broad swath of flat granitic savannah, bisected north to south by the Lebombo mountain range and drained by four west to east river systems, the Limpopo, Save, Olifants, and Kornati.
		Great Limpopo Park to be marketed at AU Summit: Zimbabwean official.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-grtlmpopk.html (367 words)

	Great Limpopo Park takes shape - SouthAfrica.info
		It is a joint agreement between Mozambique, South Africa and Zimbabwe to establish a transfrontier park comprising three national parks — the Kruger National Park, the Gonarezhou National Park in Zimbabwe and the Limpopo National Park in Mozambique.
		The transfrontier park covers an area of 3 577 144 hectares, which is a total surface area of 35 000 km².
		According to South African National Parks (SANParks), the Kruger National Park aims to spend R40-million on the projects, most of which are designed to facilitate movement of tourists between the Kruger and Limpopo National Park in Mozambique.
	www.safrica.info /what_happening/news/transfrontierpark_271003.htm (775 words)

	One Park, Three Countries
		The park, situated on the South Africa, Mozambique and Zimbabwe borders, is one of the world's largest, with an area of 35,000 square kilometers, almost the size of Israel.
		The Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park ''represents a pragmatic approach to managing and conserving wildlife in the region,'' Jason Bell-Leask, southern Africa director for the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW), told IPS in a telephone interview.
		Park authorities in the past have resorted to culling as a way of stabilizing the animal population.
	www.tierramerica.net /2004/1120/iacentos.shtml (763 words)

	Mulonga Forum: The Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park: A Model for Africa?
		Washington, DC The Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park, spanning the borders of South Africa, Mozambique and Zimbabwe, is the largest, and most ambitious effort in Africa to combine conservation, environmental protection, tourism and economic development.
		The potential benefits of the new Transfrontier park for the wildlife population, for the people who live in the area and for the region as a whole are tremendous, agrees Eddie Koch, a director of Mafisa Research and Planning, a South African agency specializing in ecotourism.
		That has been put on hold because the planners of the initiative, the three governments and the Transfrontier Park foundation, neglected to consult with the people living in the park who justifiably complained bitterly that, all of a sudden, elephants were likely to be in their back yards and they had to deal with them.
	www.mulonga.net /discus/messages/28/591.html?1051889339 (2811 words)

	Conservation at the South African National Parks
		On 9 December 2002, the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park (GLTP) was proclaimed with the signing of an international treaty at Xai-Xai, Mozambique by the heads of state of Mozambique, South Africa and Zimbabwe.
		As recent as 1 August 2003, a treaty on the establishment of the Ai-Ais/Richtersveld Transfrontier Park was signed in Windhoek by the presidents of Namibia and South Africa.
		The establishment of the GLTP is the first phase in the establishment of a bigger transfrontier conservation area measuring almost 100 000 km².
	www.sanparks.org /conservation/transfrontier/great_limpopo.php (1672 words)

	TimeOut Tours & Safaris - Kruger National Park (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Park was opened to the public in 1927 for visitors to view animals and plant life in a area where they are protected.
		It extends from the Limpopo River in the north to the Crocodile river in the south, a distance of nearly 380 kilometers.
		This is a new international park, which brings together Kruger National Park, the Limpopo National Park in Mozambique and Gonarezhou National Park in Zimbabwe and covers an area of approximately 35,000 square kilometers.
	www.timeoutsafaris.co.za /kruger_park_more_info.htm (610 words)

	The Elephant Sanctuary, Hohenwald, Tennessee
		The great elephant herds of the Kruger National Park, under threat of culling, are migrating in growing numbers across the border into Mozambique's adjacent Limpopo Park.
		Flying by helicopter over Limpopo Park last Friday, we could see several herds and single bulls moving through the bush that had formerly been denuded of game by Mozambique's protracted war and by serving as a coutada, or hunting ground, under earlier Portuguese colonial rule.
		Meanwhile, the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park's elephant migration should serve as encouragement for southern Africa's transfrontier-park programme, in which the Peace Parks Foundation is playing a major facilitating role.
	www.elephants.com /media/IOL_3_27_05.htm (801 words)

	Limpopo Province: Wilderness Of Most Famous Wildlife Sanctuary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Limpopo province Parks in South Africa is distinctive in its ample variety of attractions.
		Transfrontier parks in South Africa are a recent concept in nature conservation and tourism, and are based on the principle of nature or ecosystems not recognising national borders.
		Incorporation into the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park would expand the scope of the Kruger National Park to enable viable populations of endangered wild dog, cheetah and a range of smaller endangered animals and birds to be re-established.
	www.independentngonline.com /news/83/ARTICLE/9685/2006-08-25.html (959 words)

	Limpopo - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Limpopo, river in southeastern Africa, rising as the Krokodil River in the mountainous Witwatersrand region of northern South Africa.
		Limpopo Province, province in northern South Africa, bounded on the north by the Limpopo River and Zimbabwe, on the east by Mozambique, on the west...
		Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park, wildlife park in southern Africa, spread across territory in southwestern Mozambique, northeastern South Africa,...
	encarta.msn.com /Limpopo.html (86 words)

	Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park - About - Wildlife & Developments
		Currently the Kruger Park is also one of the last areas anywhere in the world to hold significant and viable populations of Wild dog Lycaon pictus, having some 300 individuals in total.
		The population of 3 000 white rhino Ceratotherium simum present in the Kruger Park is the biggest anywhere, while the 300 fl rhino Diceros bicornis is the second largest population.
		A total of 505 species of birds are known from the Kruger National Park, but a small number of additional species is likely to be present in the Mozambican and Zimbabwean portions of the Transfrontier Park.
	www.greatlimpopopark.com /about/wildlife_developments.htm (521 words)

	Department of Environmental Affairs & Tourism - About Us
		The Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park began with a meeting between President Joaquim Chissano of Mozambique and the president of the World Wide Fund for Nature (South Africa) in 1990.
		The GLTP comprises a vast area of the lowland savannah ecosystem, not only in the Transfrontier Park itself, but also in the conservation area that will be reintegrated for joint management.
		From a tourism development perspective, the key components in the GLTP are Kruger National Park and the Makuleke region in South Africa, which have had more than 100 years of tourism development and currently host more than one million visitors a year.
	www.environment.gov.za /ProjProg/TFCAs/gltp.htm (1100 words)

	Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park: South Africa, Mozambique, Zimbabwe: Giriyondo Border Post... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		To the west and south of Kruger Park are the provinces of Mpumalanga and Limpopo.
		The Kruger National Park is now part of the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park (with a total area of 35 000 square kilometres).
		The establishment of the Transfrontier Park is the first phase of creating a bigger Transfrontier conservation area measuring a staggering 99,800 km² (36,000 sq.
	www.krugerpark.co.za /great-limpopo-transfrontier-park.html (547 words)

	Kruger National Park (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Majestic in extent, rich in wildlife, grand in its scenic splendour, the Kruger Park is the pride of South Africa.
		The establishment of the transfrontier park is the first phase of the establishment of a bigger transfrontier conservation area measuring almost 10 million hectares (24,7 million acres).
		The establishment of this magnificent transfrontier park is well advanced and on 9 December 2002 the three heads of state signed an international treaty to establish the GLTP in Xai-Xai, Mozambique.
	www.southerneaglesafaris.com /ibKrugerParkSafari.htm (384 words)

	Greater Limpopo Transfrontier Park (Limpopo Park)
		Coutada 16 forms a triangle with the Limpopo River as the northern and eastern boundary, the Olifants River as the southern boundary and the KNP as the western boundary.
		The Kruger National Park in South Africa is a long and narrow area stretching from the Crocodile River in the south to the Limpopo River in the north.
		On the east, it borders onto the Gaza Province in Mozambique and to the south and west, the Park is bounded by the Sengwe and Malapati Communal Land.
	www.kruger2canyons.com /limpopo_park.htm (858 words)

	Inter Press Service News Agency
		Furthermore, a great deal of work remains in the transfrontier park, such as building roads, hotels and accommodations for more than 20,000 villagers living inside the Mozambican sector, say experts.
		Under the terms of the Great Limpopo transfrontier park treaty, South Africa will gradually dismantle its 120-kilometre electric fencing that separates it from Mozambique to allow animals to move freely across the border.
		Park authorities in the past have resorted to culling as a way of stabilising the animal population.
	www.ipsnews.net /africa/print.asp?idnews=26379 (735 words)

	Limpopo National Park - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Limpopo National Park was born when the status of Coutada 16 Wildlife Utilisation Area in Gaza Province, Mozambique was changed from a hunting concession to a protected area.
		It forms part of the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park with the Kruger National Park, South Africa and the Gonarezhou National Park, Zimbabwe.
		In the south is the Massingir dam and the town of Massingir which is the administrative headquarters of the new park while on the northern border is the Limpopo River.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Limpopo_National_Park (216 words)

	ZimConservation archives
		THE Joint Management Board of the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park has stepped up efforts to mobilise funds for the development of the park from the donor community and is looking at ways of securing possible funding under the New Partnership for Africa's Development.
		The Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park (GLTP) comprises Gonarezhou National Park in Zimbabwe, Kruger National Park in South Africa and Limpopo National Park in Mozambique.
		The task of co-ordinating activities under the GLTP is on a two-year rotational basis between the three countries.
	www.zimconservation.com /archives4-11.htm (597 words)

	Peace park - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Peace Parks Foundation was set up by the WWF and Dr Anton Rupert in February 1997 to encourage and facilitate the establishment of TFCAs, and is actively supported by Dr Nelson Mandela.
		In contrast to other peace parks, the primary purpose of the union was to serve as a symbol of friendship and peace between the two countries.
		Another United States/Canada peace park, Peace Arch Park, lies on the British Columbia/Washington border, and is famous for the Peace Arch, a large peace structure straddling the border itself.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peace_park (487 words)

	Limpopo National Park, Mozambique
		The Limpopo National Park now forms part of the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park, a transnational conservation area spanning the borders of Mozambique, South Africa and Zimbabwe.
		The relocation of some 1000 elephants from the overcrowded Kruger to the Limpopo National Park began in 2001, and in March 2004 a plan was executed that should increase the size of the peace park to all of 99,800 km
		The GLTP contains a vast tract of dry, low-rainfall savannah that is permeated by several rivers running to the east coast.
	www.go2africa.com /mozambique/maputo/limpopo-national-park (334 words)

	Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park in limbo - Africa-News.net - Sharing an interest in Africa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In Mozambique, a former Portuguese colony, the Park is in the Gaza Province and covers the districts of Massingir, Mabalane and Chicualcuala where a vast number animals and plant species, some of them endangered are found.
		In South Africa, the park comprises of the Kruger National Park and the area of Makuleke.
		Parks and Wildlife Management Authority director general, Dr Morris Mtsambiwa told the Herald, a Zimbabwean government owned daily, that tourists from Kruger National Park and Limpopo National Park would need to travel quite a considerable distance from Great Limpopo to Ngundu where they will get a direct link to Gonarezhou National Park.
	www.africa-interactive.net /index.php?PageID=1199 (908 words)

	Planet Ark - FEATURE - Trilateral game park heralds new wildlife success
		And the next step in the park's development is to pull down the 350 km (217 miles) fence separating the Kruger from the Limpopo park, and let the South African park's plentiful tourists experience the Mozambican side, said Manie Kriel, a legislator in South Africa's Limpopo province, which contains the Kruger park.
		Wildlife groups say the park authorities may have been a bit hasty in their efforts, for while the transfrontier park will eventually re-establish natural wildlife migration routes, there are still issues over the animals' safety.
		He said the Great Limpopo park, along with other planned cross border parks such as one to be created around the borders of Botswana, Zambia and Zimbabwe, known as the Okavango-Upper Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area, would need to be taken slowly and carefully.
	www.planetark.com /avantgo/dailynewsstory.cfm?newsid=17571 (916 words)

	Mbeki in Mozambique for transfrontier park agreement, 9 Dec
		The Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park (GLTP) project is a joint initiative between South Africa, Mozambique and Zimbabwe to establish a 35 771 square km transfrontier park comprising of three national parks, one in each of the three respective countries.
		The three respective national parks constituting the area are the Kruger National Park in South Africa, the recently proclaimed Limpopo National Park (formerly known as Coutada 16) in Mozambique and the Gonarezhou National Park, including the Manjinji Pan Sanctuary and the Malipati Safari Area in Zimbabwe.
		Transfrontier conservation initiatives form an integral part of the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) whose ideals encompass trans-boundary ecosystem management, integration of conservation with development for sustainability, as well as the promotion of regional co-operation for peace and socio-economic development.
	www.info.gov.za /speeches/2002/02120913461001.htm (438 words)

	www.sagoodnews.co.za \| search \| environmental management Transfrontier Park to attract 2010 tourists and beyond
		The Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park comprises a vast area of lowland savannah, including a conservation area that will be reintegrated for joint management, as well as granite plateaus, a floodplain riverbank and part of the Lebombo Mountains.
		Up to 120km of electric fencing between the Kruger and Limpopo parks is gradually being removed to allow animals to migrate freely across the manmade borders.
		Visitors to the park will be able to view game and also enjoy bird watching in the tropical wetlands, go on lake cruises, go tiger fishing and enjoy 4X4 trails.
	www.sagoodnews.co.za /search/environment/934907.htm (434 words)

	Fence Cutting Ceremony Opens African Super Park
		KRUGER NATIONAL PARK, South Africa, December 12, 2002 (ENS) - Conservation and tourism ministers from South Africa and Mozambique Wednesday removed part of the fence that divides the two countries' national parks to establish Africa's super wildlife park, the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park (GLTP).
		Hailing the park as Africa's "miracle" Moosa made good use of his bolt cutters, saying the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park is an example of the success of regional cooperation and an important step in regional economic integration.
		According to South Africa National Park officials, the elephant proof fence, which runs for 353 kilometers (219 miles) along the length of the Kruger National Park's eastern border with Mozambique, will be taken down in three sections, allowing animals to move across the border.
	www.ens-newswire.com /ens/dec2002/2002-12-12-03.asp (638 words)

	South Africa Completes Giant Job of Elephant Translocation
		Although 40 is a good estimate, parks officials said, the exact number of elephants translocated may vary slightly as family groups rather than individuals were moved.
		The translocation is an important component of the development process of the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park, a joint initiative between Mozambique, South Africa and Zimbabwe.
		Envisioned as a world class ecotourism destination, the transfrontier park is being developed with extensive private sector involvement, but officials say it will be managed to optimize benefits for sustainable economic development of local communities as well as biodiversity conservation.
	www.ens-newswire.com /ens/sep2003/2003-09-05-01.asp (785 words)

	Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park
		The transfrontier park is a merger of South Africa's Kruger National Park (KNP), Mozambique's Limpopo Park and Zimbabwe's Gonarezhou National Park.
		Mozambican Tourism Minister Fernando Sumbana has confirmed that the park will be officially inaugurated by the heads of states of the three countries by the end of August.
		The total surface area of the transfrontier park will be approximately 35 000 square kilometres and will be the first phase of creating a bigger transfrontier conservation area measuring 100 000 km2.
	www.southafricaq8.com /newsflash/012_transfrontier_park.htm (232 words)

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