South African Press Association (Johannesburg)
3 December 2002
Johannesburg — The South African, Mozambique and Zimbabwean presidents will launch an African "super park" adjoining the Kruger National Park in Mpumalanga, the Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism said on Tuesday.
President Thabo Mbeki, together with his Mozambican and Zimbabwean counterparts, Presidents Joachim Chissano and Robert Mugabe, would sign a treaty to formally establish one of the world's largest transfrontier conservation areas, the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park (GLTP).
The signing of the treaty would take place in Mozambican tourist resort of Xai-Xai on December 9, the department said in a statement.
The agreement seals a two-year process of intensive preparations for the establishment of the 35000 square kilometre park.
The GLTP would span over South Africa's Kruger National Park, Mozambique's Limpopo National Park and the Gonarezhou National Park in Zimbabwe.
The three ministers for environmental affairs and tourism from South Africa, Mozambique and Zimbabwe would drop part of the fence on side of the Kruger National Park on December 11, the statement said.
Spokeswoman for South Africa's Environmental Affairs and Tourism Minister Valli Moosa, Phindile Makwakwa, said South Africa launched a three-year operation to release thousands of wildlife from the Kruger National Park to Mozambique's Limpopo National Park as part of the development of the Transfrontier Park.
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