KAZA 2024 Heads of State Summit was held in Livingstone, Zambia. The delegates renewed calls for member states to pull out of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (or CITES) which has repeatedly denied them permission to sell off their abundant ivory and other wildlife products.
Kavango-Zambezi Trans-Frontier Conservation Area (KAZA-TFCA)
- The Kavango-Zambezi Trans-Frontier Conservation Area (KAZA-TFCA) is a 520,000-square kilometre wildlife sanctuary straddling five southern African nations that share common borders along the Okavango and Zambezi river basins.
- The area lies in the Kavango and Zambezi river basins where Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe converge.
- The area hosts Okavango Delta (the world’s largest inland delta), and the Victoria Falls (a World Heritage Site and one of the seven natural wonders of the world).
- These five nations together with South Africa, are home to more than two-thirds of the African elephant population of about 450,000.
- These countries are part of the 19 African elephant range states, of which Botswana alone has an elephant population of 132,000, following by Zimbabwe at 100,000, while other sizeable numbers are in South Africa, Zambia, Namibia and Angola.
