Zim instability halts transfrontier peace park project with Botswana
source: Sunday Standard
23.09.2007 10:32:35 A
WASHINGTON DC – Responding to public questions at the National Geographic Society yesterday, the president of Botswana, Festus Mogae, said that implementation of Peace Parks between Zimbabwe and Botswana was ‘on ice’ primarily due to concerns about uncontrolled poaching and foot-and-mouth disease outbreaks in Zimbabwe.
The President said that 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 in Zimbabwe that required the construction of a disease control fence along the border, while the Northern (Zambezi-Okavango Transfrontier Park) was ‘on ice’ primarily due to poaching concerns in Zimbabwe.
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