Five states sign the KAZA Transfrontier Conservation Area treaty
Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe signed the treaty establishing the Kavango–Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area, committing to joint management of a landscape linking national parks, game management areas, forest reserves and community land across five sovereign jurisdictions. KAZA is the institutional expression of the finding that dispersal between reserves, not conditions inside any one of them, determines large-mammal outcomes.
Historical — it happened, and the record is settled.
Subjects
- Kavango–Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA) · corridor · Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe
- Chobe National Park · protected_area · Botswana
- Hwange National Park · protected_area · Zimbabwe
- Zambezi River · river · Zambia, Angola, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique
- Okavango Delta · protected_area · Botswana
Evidence
Partly verified — Core facts are sourced; some optional detail is deliberately absent.
KAZA TFCA: 2011 treaty establishment and the 2022 KAZA Elephant Survey results
KAZA was established by treaty between Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe in 2011, linking national parks, game management areas, forest reserves and community land across the Okavango and Zambezi basins; a coordinated dry-season aerial survey flown August-October 2022 estimated about 227,900 elephants in the TFCA, with Botswana holding about 131,909, described as broadly stable relative to the 2016 IUCN African Elephant Status Report.
KAZA TFCA Secretariat, with WWF and partners · 2023 · Partly verified
KAZA Secretariat 2022 KAZA Elephant Survey report (launched 2023), summary at https://africa.panda.org/?45604/KAZA-Launches-its-2022-KAZA-Elephant-Survey-results= ; TFCA establishment profile at https://tfcaportal.org/tfcas/kavango-zambezi-transfrontier-conservation-area
Recorded on Kavango–Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA)
- Five states sign the KAZA Transfrontier Conservation Area treaty
- Okavango Delta inscribed as the 1,000th UNESCO World Heritage site
- Coordinated KAZA aerial survey estimates about 227,900 elephants
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