This is the official Kasane Statement drafted at the KASANE CONFERENCE ON THE ILLEGAL WILDLIFE TRADE in March 2015 in Kasane Botswana.

The AHEAD-GLTFCA Network, as part of their communication sharing mandate, has just released its weekly highlights with information on:

- funding and employment opportunities;

- research publications in academic journals;

- relevant news.

To receive the weekly highlights into your email please contact clara.bocchino[at]up.ac[dot]za

The AHEAD-GLTFCA Network, as part of their communication sharing mandate, has just released its weekly highlights with information on:

- funding and employment opportunities;

- research publications in academic journals;

- relevant news.

To receive the weekly highlights into your email please contact clara.bocchino[at]up.ac[dot]za

The AHEAD-GLTFCA Network, as part of their communication sharing mandate, has just released its weekly highlights with information on:

- funding and employment opportunities;

- research publications in academic journals;

- relevant news.

To receive the weekly highlights into your email please contact clara.bocchino[at]up.ac[dot]za

Objective of SOP

The SADC Treaty, the SADC Protocol on Wildlife Conservation and Law Enforcement, the SADC Protocol on Forestry and the Forestry Strategy, have all clearly recognized the strategic and practical importance of multi-country efforts to boost intra-regional management of shared natural resources, and therefore form the basis for justification of establishing Standard Operating Procedures for fire management in TFCAs.

PPF's CEO shares highlights from different SADC TFCAs of the year gone by in the attached document.

This management plan is intended to provide a background to fire management, synthesise current thinking and to function as a guide for protected area managers with regard to the application of fire in the Sehlabathebe National Park (SNP) and in the uKhahlamba Drakensberg Park World Heritage Site (UDP WHS).

TerraViva 8 Edition

From 12th to 19th of November, the IUCN World Parks Congress 2014 - the global forum on protected areas - took place in Sydney with over 6,000 experts participating at this event from over 170 countries. The Southern African Development Community (SADC) with its Transfrontier Conservation Areas also participated at this meaningful event to contribute their solutions to address today's global challenges on achieving wildlife and nature conservation across borders within the 15 member state countries.