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Ecotourism in Central Africa

  • Angola Ministers assess acotourism potential

    ANGOLA, 2015/05/14 At the conference, held for the initial time, the minister agreed that boosting and promoting ecotourism in the various conservation areas will provide numerous gains to both sectors. The Environment minister said that the chain of environmental actions involving tourism will promote the complexity of national culture and strengthen the economy. Angolan ministers of Environment Fátima Jardim, and Hotel and Tourism, Pedro Mutinde, met Wednesday in Luanda, under the presidential order on the promotion of ecotourism in protected areas.

  • EU Money for Virunga National Park in Congo with no safeguards in place?

    CONGO KINSHASA, 2014/10/05 Announcements that the Virunga National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, will be getting additional EU funding next by presently spending some 30+ million Euros over the completed 25 years, have met with instant demands that safeguards must be provided by the regime in Kinshasha on several areas of concern. irunga National Park is a 7800 square kilometer World Heritage Site that lies on the eastern border of the Democratic Republic of Congo. It is the is the second oldest national park in the world, behind only Yellowstone, and the oldest in Africa. It is the majority diverse national park on the African continent that boasts savannas, lava plains, swamps, erosion valleys, forests, active volcanoes and the ice fields of the Rwenzori Mountains. Part Virunga’s numerous species of wildlife, the park is home to approximately 200 of the world’s critically endangered mountain gorillas that live on the slopes of the Virunga volcano ranger which includes active Nyiragongo volcano and the major lava lake in the world.

  • KAZA, Kavango-Zambezi Conservation Area,

    BOTSWANA, 2013/11/12 KAZA, Kavango-Zambezi Conservation Area, covers an enormous area around Livingstone, into Zambia, Zimbabwe, Angola, Namibia and Botswana. The plan is to include the villages inside the conservation area and allow the animals free passage from one National Park to an extra. And the animals, notably, elephant are presently moving into and around Sioma Ngwezi National Park. They are moving outside the park and going in to the villages. Although the planting season has not started properly the villagers are by presently complaining. In a statement in the Post: Manyandelo (UPND Chairperson) accused ZAWA of having failed to do their work, alleging that the elephants had been terrorising the area for over two months, but no proper measures had been put in place by the officers.
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