President Mwanawasa of Zambia’s economic advisor, Dr Situmbeko Musokotwane is reported as saying (The Post, Monday March 12, 2007) that development could not be achieved without interference with the environment. This rather general comment on the activities of homo kleptomanias was to prepare us for the visit of a Malaysian delegation who were whipped down to Livingstone to view three 5 hectare sites set aside in the Mosi oa Tunya NP for hotel development.
Mitigation. What be that? Perhaps taking something unpalatable and covering it with something equally unpalatable. Whatever happened to the instructions given by the Chairman of the Zambia Wildlife Authority to his Director General that a moratorium be placed on all proposed developments (including Legacy) for the Mosi oa Tunya Park until such time as the IUCN report was submitted and the necessary meeting held to decide on the future management of the Victoria Falls World Heritage Site as a whole? Did someone tell him to back off and allow for some good old mitigation?
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