Limpopo National Park was created in 2001, when a joint cross-border park project between South Africa, Zimbabwe and Mozambique was launched. A "peace park" protected and managed by Peace Parks Foundation, an NGO founded in 1997 by Dr. Anton Rupert, Nelson Mandela, the then President of South Africa, and Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands in the wake of the fall of apartheid. The idea was to create a common zone for the protection of Southern Africa's rich and endangered wild biodiversity, a sanctuary in an absolutely wild area where the three nations would combine their efforts to protect it, but also to create a safe migration corridor for elephants from the overpopulated South African Limpopo (part of the well-preserved Kruger Park) to Mozambique (in this Limpopo National Park) and Zimbabwe (in Gonarezhou National Park), which is seeking to repopulate its parks decimated by the war of independence and civil war. Initially, three breeding herds of elephants out of a planned 1,000 were transferred from South Africa to Mozambique via this new corridor, a real success. Nearly 1,500 inhabitants living in eight villages were relocated, with a guarantee of running water, schools, dispensaries, etc., and land suitable for farming and livestock rearing. An "intense protection zone" has been created to combat poaching, where 80% of rangers are mobilized and teams equipped with the latest technology. In 2018, some 30 new rangers were recruited in Mozambique.The Greater Limpopo Transfrontier Conservation Area. Today, it covers around one million hectares straddling the three countries, but the vast majority of it in Mozambique. Indeed, it includes the entire Kruger Park in South Africa (19,000 km2), Gonarezhou National Park and its direct surroundings in Zimbabwe (5,000 km2), while in Mozambique it encompasses Limpopo National Park (10,000 km2), Banhine National Park (7,000 km2) and Zinhave National Park (6,000 km2), including an interstitial zone between these three truly vast Mozambican parks.

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