Protected areas of Mozambique

Protected areas in Mozambique are known as conservation areas, and are currently grouped into national parks, national reserves, forest reserves, wildlife utilisation areas (coutadas), community wildlife utilisation areas and private game farms (fazendas de bravio). There are also a number of areas that have been declared as protected areas under a variety of different legislation, which for reasons of simplicity are here grouped together as "other protected areas." Under the Conservation Law of 2014 (Law 16/2014 of June 20), the protected areas will need to be reclassified into a much more flexible series of new categories which are closer to the international system used by the IUCN. International initiatives such as transfrontier parks are grouped at the end of the page.

National parks

National reserves

Other protected areas

Community wildlife utilisation areas

Wildlife utilisation areas

Forest reserves

Private game farms

As of 2014, there were 50 private game farms in Mozambique.

RAMSAR sites

Transfrontier conservation areas

Extension: 2.056 km²
Composition: Mozambique (Chimanimani National Reserve); Zimbabwe (Chimanimani National Park)
Extension: 84.868 km²
Composition: Mozambique (Limpopo, Banhine and Zinave National Parks); Zimbabwe (Gonarezhou, Manjinji Pan Sanctuary, Malipati Safari Area, Sengwe Community Area); South Africa (Kruger National Park, Makulele Region)
Extension: 4.170 km²
Composition: Maputo Elephant Reserve (Mozambique), Tembe Elephant Park (South Africa) and Lubombo Conservancy (Swaziland)

See also

References

  1. ↑ Parque Nacional de Banhine
  2. ↑ Parque Nacional da Gorongosa
  3. ↑ Parque Nacional do Limpopo
  4. ↑ Parque Nacional do Zinave
  5. ↑ Reserva Nacional do Chimanimani
  6. ↑ Reserva Especial de Maputo
  7. ↑ Reserva Nacional do Niassa
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