Kizito Sikuka reports for The Herald in Zimbabwe.
Harare — A new conservation area spanning five countries in southern Africa will be the world’s largest transfrontier park.
Situated in the Okavango and Zambezi River basins where the borders of Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe converge, the Kavango-Zambezi Trans-Frontier Conservation Area (KAZA TFCA) covers an area of about 287 000 square kilometres.
When established, it will include 36 national parks, game reserves, community conservancies and game management areas.
The conservation area also boasts numerous attractions such as the Victoria Falls between Zambia and Zimbabwe, San Rock paintings in Botswana and the absorbing wildlife population in the region.
This high concentration of attractions is expected to create an entirely new assortment of tourism opportunities in southern Africa but also present a new dawn for socio-economic development in the Sadc region, resulting in deeper integration among member states.
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