World Largest Protected Area in Africa

 CRV© Chobe Park - Botswana

On the year of 2007 I made one the most beautiful trips of my life. I spent one month in Africa, with my family. We got into the deep continent where animals still live free in the wild, waterfalls are strong as arms of deep rivers. Colors, all around us, are bright like strong brushstrokes on a vivid painting that flirts with our senses everywhere we turn to.

I'll never forget this experience and several times I've questioned about borders and migration tracks that involve thousands of animals that each year seek for water and food and places to give birth to the next generations. Nations like Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe make part of a conjunction which includes some of the most prolific parks with a concentration of wildlife unique in the whole continent.

Today I became thrilled with the news that all of these countries agreed to creat the largest conservation area in the world, reported PRI's "Living on Earth." 

A chunk of land the size of California will include a variety of habitats and allow wildlife to migrate to greener pastures in the dry season and keep their feet dry during the wet season.

Africa's iconic wildlife, elephants, lions, crocodiles, leopards, rhinos, hippos and buffalo, are expected to bring in tourist dollars. Without the incentive of tourist revenues encouraging conservation, the animals were just a danger and a pest to locals, who had to fear elephants raiding their crops and lions stalking them at night, without the legal right to hunt problem animals.  more here

CRV© Chobe Park - Botswana