at the National Geographic Society in Botswana on Saturday.
Mogae said the Peace Park on Botswana’s southern border with Zimbabwe (Limpopo-Shashe Transfrontier Conservation Area) was facing implementation problems related to foot-and-mouth disease outbreaks that required the construction of a disease-control fence along the border. The northern (Zambezi-Okavango Transfrontier Park) was on hold primarily due to poaching concerns in Zimbabwe.
Mogae’s response highlighted an issue that many conservationists have fretted about privately. If one country sharing a peace park descends into civil war or chaos that undermines sustainable-management practises, then it places the whole mega-park at risk. – CAJ News