Thursday, January 11, 2007

MORATORIUM ON DEVELOPMENTS IN MOSI OA TUNYA NP …

The Chairman of the Zambia Wildlife Authority Board, Mr Walusiku Lisulo, confirmed on 11 January 2007 at a meeting with steering committee members of the Natural Resources Consultative Forum of Zambia, that he had directed ZAWA to impose a moratorium on all planned developments in the Mosi oa Tunya National Park until a broad-based stakeholder review of the World Conservation Union’s (IUCN) report, compiled in 1996: 'Strategic Environmental Assessment of Development Around Victoria Falls' was carried out, and a strategic plan agreed to.

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