GORONGOSA NATIONAL PARK  -  INFO FROM PAUL DUTTON  - 13/08/2006

I am part of a team helping to resuscitate Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique with the financial help of the Carr Foundation. I have experienced this wonderful conservation through good times, the worst (civil war) and now a possible recovery. Although wildlife numbers are miniscule when compared to populations pre civil war (5 000 hippo pre war, now +- 60, elephants 7 000 now 280, buffalo 13 000 now 60, lion 1 000 now 12 etc) habitats are still good so increases will follow. Poaching is serious with gin traps capable of removing a person's lower limb like an antipersonnel mine set to trap game. Our big thrust now is to implement an earlier vision of creating Africa's best ecosystem that will extend from Gorongosa Mountain, currently out of the Park, to the mangrove delta of the Zambezi River. I attach a few images hot out of the camera. The Zebra are a sub species of Burchell's as rare as the extinct Quagga and now less than 40 in the proposed M to M project.

Much thanks to Greg Carr who is making the recovery possible.  www.carrfoundation.org