‘Communities should benefit from conservation projects’

ZIMBABWE and Zambia have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to establish the Lower Zambezi Mana Pools Transfrontier Conservation Areas (LOZAMAP-TFCA) amid calls for such project to benefit communities displaced and affected by the programmes.

The LOZAMAP-TFCA, initiated in 2002 and one of the six TFCAs being pursued by Zimbabwe, covers an estimated area of 1 7745 square kilometres. The lower Zambezi Mana Pools TFCA lies in the Zambezi Valley, downstream the Kariba Dam.

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