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ESSENTIAL DESTINATIONS

MONTH: March 2006

$36 million to
Mozambique

Jay Knott, USAid director for Mozambique, on January 27, 2006 announced a 30-year, $36 million plan to restore Gorongosa National Park, whose large wildlife was poached to the verge of extirpation during 11 years of occupation by Renamo rebels, 1981-1992.


The Massachus-etts-based Gregory C. Carr Foundation is to “fund conservation services, create a wildlife sanctuary, and set up the mechanisms to reintroduce Gorongosa as a tourist destination,” said the Agencia de Informacao de Mocambique, in Maputo.


Gorongosa Nat-ional Park director of tourism development Vasco Galante mentioned “two main immediate objectives for the park––to secure its biodiversity, and to work with the communities who are living within the park boundaries.”


This resembled the rhetoric that USAid long used in support of the Zimbabwean CAMPFIRE program [see page 12], which USAid also introduced to Mozambique, but while anticipating that tourists might start arriving as early as 2007, neither Knott nor Galante appears to have mentioned hunting.