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Total Area 8150km2
Sea turtles deftly glide beneath the surface, passing through the string of ocean pearls that are the Quirimbas Archipelago in Mozambique, v...
Total Area 14740km2
This majestic TFCA marks the marriage between two contrasting landscapes, as old as the mountains themselves - where the uKhahlamba – ‘the w...
Total Area 154000km2
A family of elephants starts of on a journey across a vast expanse; from open savannahs where wild dogs play through lush wetlands teeming w...
Total Area 32278km2
Follow the wind across a vista of undulating grasslands, gently dancing around vivid wildflowers; skimming over wetlands and marches as they...
Total Area 36000km2
Dense tropical forests stand brooding and overlooking the slopes below, hiding a mysterious and secluded world within them. Towering canopie...
Total Area 35551km2
Kgalagadi, meaning ‘place of thirst’ in the San language - a name that truly captures its spirit. The landscape is one of washed...
Total Area 5920km2
/Ai/Ais meaning ‘burning water’ bringing to mind the Transfrontier Park’s hot springs and hinting at the soul of this arid...
Total Area 37572km2
A vast wild jewel nestled between three countries, the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park has become so much more than its name, ‘gu...
Total Area 5909km2
A place of towering sandstone, regal baobabs, and majestic stretches of savannah, echoing with the voices of civilizations long gone and pro...
Total Area 17745km2
A landscape strewn with the cast-off remnants of a ponderous river that left behind Mana, ‘four’, orphan pools as it strove for...
Total Area 29859km2
A landscape strewn with snaking meandering rivers rushing past contoured boulders and dramatic mountain valleys nestling hushed woodlands, t...
Total Area 4091km2
Chimanimani meaning ‘to be squeezed together’ describes the narrow pass in the mountain range through which the Musapa River flo...
Total Area 2500km2
An eagle soars high among the clouds looking over the rolling landscape below. Strewn among wooded grasslands is a constellation of jewel-to...
Total Area 47698km2
Dry winds blow downwards, caressing stark desert dunes before travelling to distant shores across the dramatic oceanscapes along the Skeleto...
Total Area 10029km2
A pallet of turquoise seascapes capped in white juxtaposed with deep rich earth tones of green and brown forest, woodland and marshland, und...
Total Area 14464km2
The sound of pounding hooves echoes across the plains as gargantuan herds of migratory blue wildebeest make their annual pilgrimage between...
Undulating blue expanses meet the gaze as far as the eye can see, broken only by brown smudges of land in the distance. Life, in this landsc...
Total Area 520000km2
Too vast to describe with any accuracy, the sheer scope of this TFCA bewilders the mind with a range of experiences, from the Smoke-that-Thu...

Latest News

14.03.25
Maputo National Park, officially established in 2021, was created by merging the Maputo Special Reserve and Ponta do Ouro Partial Marine Reserve. Managed throug...
14.03.25
In the heart of the Kavango Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA TFCA), the Nyae Nyae Pangolin Project (NNPP) is pioneering efforts to protect one of t...
14.03.25
To celebrate 25 years of TFCA development and ensure the continuation of this visionary concept, the SADC TFCA Network Steering Committee, with support from the...
13.03.25
Dear Colleagues and TFCA Friends, Welcome to the first SADC TFCA Network Newsletter of 2025! Which has inspiring stories of 2025 transboundary conservation w...
11.03.25
Christine Mentzel, who has taken on the role of managing the SADC TFCA Wildlife Managers and Rangers Training (WMRT) Programme, funded by the German Federal Min...
10.03.25
For centuries, protected areas have been an integral part, our landscapes, forests and seascape ecosystems and have played a vital role in conserving biodiversi...
10.03.25
The Limpopo River Basin, spanning across Botswana, Mozambique, South Africa, and Zimbabwe, is a critical watercourse supporting diverse socio-economic activitie...
10.03.25
During the period of July to September 2024, a Land Use Plan for the Lower Zambezi Mana Pools Transfrontier Conservation Area (LOZAMAP TFCA) was developed in co...
27.11.24
Kasane, Botswana, hosted an important regional integration event during the SADC Transfrontier Conservation Area (TFCA) Network Annual Meeting on 19 November 20...
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Protected areas, of which there are over 8500 in the ACP countries, are a key conservation tool, yet there are still fundamental gaps in our knowledge about them.
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Protected areas, of which there are over 8500 in the ACP countries, are a key conservation tool, yet there are still fundamental gaps in our knowledge about them. 
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