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Maputo National Park declared a Unesco World Heritage Site
16 July 2025
(Based on Daily Maverick article by Tony Carnie)
The new 154,000ha Maputo heritage park forms an extension to South Africa’s 240,000ha iSimangaliso Wetland Park, enlarging the total area of this transboundary world heritage site to almost 400,000ha.
Mozambique has received global acclaim for setting aside the Maputo National Park as the country’s second World Heritage Site, further strengthening its commitment to conserving a large area of its southern coastline for future generations.
The new 154,000ha Maputo heritage park forms an extension to South Africa’s 240,000ha iSimangaliso Wetland Park, enlarging the total area of this transboundary world heritage site to almost 400,000ha.
Mozambique has received global acclaim for setting aside the Maputo National Park as the country’s second World Heritage Site, further strengthening its commitment to conserving a large area of its southern coastline for future generations.
The decision was announced in Paris on 13 July 2025 at a meeting of the Unesco World Heritage Committee, which oversees the protection of natural and cultural heritage sites deemed to be of “outstanding universal value”.
The new 154,000ha Maputo heritage park forms an extension of South Africa’s 240,000ha iSimangaliso Wetland Park, enlarging the total area of this transboundary world heritage site to almost 400,000ha.
It was one of seven new global heritage sites confirmed at the 47th World Heritage Committee meeting in the French capital at the weekend.
The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has described this extended park as “one of the most outstanding coastal wetlands in Africa”, an area renowned for its scenic beaches, wildlife and wetland areas.
The park includes the former Maputo Elephant Reserve, Inhaca Island and the Machangulo Peninsula, and a stretch of ocean from Inhaca to Ponta do Ouro.
More details here https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025-07-14-maputo-national-park-declared-a-unesco-world-heritage-site/?
The new 154,000ha Maputo heritage park forms an extension of South Africa’s 240,000ha iSimangaliso Wetland Park, enlarging the total area of this transboundary world heritage site to almost 400,000ha.
It was one of seven new global heritage sites confirmed at the 47th World Heritage Committee meeting in the French capital at the weekend.
The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has described this extended park as “one of the most outstanding coastal wetlands in Africa”, an area renowned for its scenic beaches, wildlife and wetland areas.
The park includes the former Maputo Elephant Reserve, Inhaca Island and the Machangulo Peninsula, and a stretch of ocean from Inhaca to Ponta do Ouro.
More details here https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025-07-14-maputo-national-park-declared-a-unesco-world-heritage-site/?
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