Part of Nsimbirhi Conference Centre
COMMUNITIES in the Great Limpopo region shall benefit from a Trans-Frontier Conservation Areas (TFCAs) Networking Forum for Sustainable Community Livelihood that shall take place at Nsimbirhi Conference Centre and Great Limpopo Cultural Village in Chiredzi from 13 to 17 November this year.
Supported by Southern Africa Development Community-Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit (SADC-GIZ), the forum seeks to create interaction for community groups on issues of conservation and cultural tourism.
The communities are surrounding Gonarezhou National Park which amalgamates with Kruger National of South Africa and Limpopo National Park of Mozambique to form The Great Limpopo TFCA.
About sixty delegates from Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, South Africa and Zambia shall deliberate on how they have managed human-wildlife conflicts, conservation of natural resources and culture in their respective areas.
SADC region is home to three of the world’s major TFCAs, also known as peace parks projects. These are Great Limpopo TFCA, Kavango-Zambezi (KAZA) TFCA and Greater Mapungubwe TFCA.
The forum is being coordinated by Centre for Cultural Development Initiative (CCDI), a Chiredzi based non-profit organisation which promotes community development through culture and conservation.