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“A female elephant and her group in Mozambique’s Gorongosa National Park will be tracked via satellite, state media reported on Monday.” - IOL

“A Macomia resident named Diogo Rachid told Guebuza that many beneficiaries of the local initiative fund were peasant farmers whose only source of income was to cultivate their fields, which had been devastated by drought and by elephants.” - allAfrica.com

“Mozambique also has the magnet of the efforts it has made to replenish its parks. Animals have been shipped from South Africa, particularly from the Kruger national park. Thousands of elephants, zebras and kudus have been moved across the border over the past five years at a cost of more than £500,000.” - The Guardian

“The Mozambican government on Monday authorised soldiers to gun down wild animals who are seen as a threat to human beings after a new report highlighted an increase in the number of deadly attacks.” - IOL

“The great elephant herds of the Kruger National Park, under threat of culling, are migrating in growing numbers across the border into Mozambique’s adjacent Limpopo Park.” - IOL

“The Bobirwa Sub-District will become an elephant-free zone once government transfers about 300 elephants from the area to Mozambique, Ministry of Environment, Wildlife and Tourism permanent secretary Lucas Gakale said last week.” - Latest News - Republic of Botswana

“South Africa has given Mozambique a jumbo sized gift - or seven to be precise.” - Sky News

“Elephants living in the Kruger Park in South Africa are being moved to Mozambique in the latest stage in the creation of a huge cross-border game park between the two countries and Zimbabwe.”- BBC NEWS

“Forget about contraceptives or culling - a mega park for elephants stretching from Mozambique to Namibia is the solution for the over-population.” - news24.com

“A family group of seven elephants was earlier this week moved from the Kruger Park into Mozambique’s wildlife-depleted Limpopo National Park - both areas elements of the new Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park that crosses the borders of South Africa, Mozambique and Zimbabwe.” - Independent Online

“How far will Mozambique go with its promising economic recovery if the price is a damaged environment, nature conservationists are asking? ‘South Africa gave Mozambique several dozen elephants to restock their parks. The Mozambique elephants had been poached out of existence. But elephants have superior homing instincts, and every one of them migrated right back to South Africa,” Reilly told IPS. ” - Inter Press Service News Agency

“A high security fence erected in 1975 that blocked an ancient elephant migration route between South Africa and Mozambique is being torn down to create what will be the largest wildlife reserve in Africa.” - National Geographic News

“The Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park, spanning the borders of South Africa, Mozambique and Zimbabwe, is the largest, and most ambitious effort in Africa to combine conservation, environmental protection, tourism and economic development. If successful, the Great Limpopo Park will be the world’s largest game park, a huge 3.5 million hectare area incorporating what is today South Africa’s Kruger National Park, Mozambique’s Limpopo National Park and the Gonarezhou National Park in Zimbabwe. In particular, it makes a huge difference for the Kruger National Park in terms of elephant management. The Kruger Park is facing a massive dilemma currently: how to deal with a very quickly growing elephant population. Its elephant herd has grown from 7,000 to 11,000 over the last couple of years because Sanpark, the South African government conservation agency, about three years ago took a decision to stop culling.” - All Africa