Saturday, March 3, 2012

Peace parks.(News)

NOT SO long ago it still seemed a wild dream when conservationists talked about a southern African network of parks bound together through the removal of national boundaries separating adjoining reserves and through the creation of corridors to link those further apart.

It seemed even more fanciful to talk about animals being able to resume old migratory routes stretching thousands of kilometres, or of tourists travelling through a practically non-stop African wilderness as they traverse several countries on one excursion.

Now it is not far-fetched any more. In fact, it has been lent wonderful meaning by this week's intergovernmental agreement aimed at …

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