UNDERSTANDING THE GREATER KRUGER / GLTFCA COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT

This is a document explaining the Greater Kruger GLTFCA cooperative agreement essential to the expansion of the GLTFP beyond the park system.

The Great Limpopo Transfrontier Conservation Area (GLTFCA) Cooperative Agreement seeks to address issues and capitalise on opportunities within the open system of the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park (GLTP) and surrounding conservation and protected areas. The purpose of the agreement is to: 1. Address risks associated with a variety of entities, with different legal statuses, business models and management approaches being part of a single open system that constitutes a landscape-level conservation initiative. 2. Engender cooperation and collaboration in areas of common interest that include ecological management, socio-economic beneficiation, and safety and security. 3. Capitalise on opportunities that exist within the collective that include joint buying-power, lobbying for reasonable legislative and policy changes as part of a collective, joint destination marketing, and collective socio-economic beneficiation that efficiently maximises the benefits of the GLTFCA. Within this context, the GLTFCA Cooperative Agreement seeks to address the following: • The legal protected area status of the areas that form the open system of the GLTP, which focus on: o Ensuring that land in South Africa is protected in terms of the National Environmental Management: Protected Areas Act (NEMPAA), with a primary focus on national parks, nature reserve and protected environments. o Ensuring that there are appropriate legal protections for land in Mozambique and Zimbabwe that meet the IUCN criteria for categories of protected areas.

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