(August 26, 2019) Participation of Mozambique in the 18th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES CoP18).Credits: #ANAC

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(August 26, 2019) A peanut butter factory has just been set up in Lichinga, the capital of Niassa province in northern Mozambique, as part of an initiative by the community organisation ESTAMOS, to reward the efforts of communities growing peanuts in the Niassa National Reserve buffer zone.The project was funded with about 1.4 million meticais (around US$25,190 at current exchange rates) provided by US Embassy in Mozambique, which was invested in production equipment for the factory and a fund to train the workfo...

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(August 22, 2019) The Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Land, Environment and Rural Development, Sheila Santana Afonso, presided on 21st August at Afrin Hotel in Maputo, the official opening ceremony of the Sub-Regional Meeting of the MAB National Committees (Men and Biosphere) Africa, which runs until 23th August, under the theme "Promoting Sustainable Development Goals in Southern Africa through the UNESCO Man and Biosphere Program".The meeting aims, among other things, to assess the degree of implementati...

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(August 22, 2019) The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), as part of the implementation of the COMBO project, held a workshop in partnership with the Biodiversity Conservation Foundation (BIOFUND) and the Center for Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (CEAGRE), with the theme: “ Validation of a Miombo Forests Conservation - rapid assessment tool” on 19th August 2019 at the Radisson Blu Hotel, in Maputo City.The objective of the meeting was to determine the best way to measure miombo status in...

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(August 22, 2019) WCS Mozambique staff met at its headquarters in Maputo on 16th August to discuss the mechanisms of procurement and budget management processes.  This meeting emerged from the extreme importance of insight and harmonization of management processes within the organization as new procurement and payment paradigms are being introduced with the aim of creating more transparency and flexibility in processes. This meeting was led by the Budget and Procurement Manager and was attended by representa...

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(August 22, 2019) "Gilé: Switching to Coexist" is the title of the documentary presented in Maputo as part of a project funded by the European Union and implemented by the Italian NGO COSV, aimed to enhance the financial sustainability and biodiversity preservation of the Gilé National Reserve in the Zambezia Province. The short film focuses on areas such as environmental education, the challenges and potentials in the Reserve, sustainable innovation, local participation through Management Committee...

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(August 21, 2019) Mozambique has an estimated population of 10,800 elephants, a number that has remained stable over the past five years despite threats to the species, the National Conservation Areas Administration (ANAC) said today in a statement.“The preliminary survey results indicate an estimated 10,800 elephants. The population in the country has been stable since the 2014 data collection,” Carlos Lopes Pereira, ANAC’s Director of Protection and Enforcement, said.The African elephant is cl...

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(August 20, 2019) A Mozambican delegation headed by the Director General of the National Administration of Conservation Areas (ANAC) attends the 18th Conference of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), which runs from 16 to 28 August 2019 in Geneva, Switzerland.  The CITES Conference of Parties is the highest political decision-making meeting on the processes of protection, conservation, sustainable exploitation and international trade in species of fauna and flora, including c...

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(August 15, 2019) Niassa is a vast protected area of 42,200 km2 in northern Mozambique with a healthy population of lions. The protected area is divided into 17 management units allocated for ecotourism and sport hunting. Hunting fees fund 30% of the annual operational costs of the reserve as well as anti-poaching and management activities,  although hunting revenues do not necessarily compensate for f inancial losses of livestock at the household level. Tanzania contains up to half of the global population ...

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(August 13, 2019) This summer, we reported with our partners a full year without an elephant poached in Mozambique's Niassa Reserve, a massive protected area that was once plagued by wildlife crime.This #WorldElephantDay, thank you for helping to make successes like this possible.

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