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Development project for National Reserve of Gilé

and its surrounding area has been approved

27 November 2008

The Steering Committee of the “Fonds Français pour l'Environnement Mondial” (French GEF) has approved on 27^th November 2008 a 1 million euro project that aims at developing the Gilé National Reserve and its surrounding area. Being the unique protected area of Zambezia province, that reserve is one of the last wild areas in the region. It has an exceptional biodiversity which is more and more threatened by the increasing pressure on its natural resources.

The objectives of the projects are to preserve and rehabilitate the biodiversity of that national reserve, and to guarantee a sustainable use of the natural resources by the populations that live around it. The project also aims at reintroducing threatened species such has the black rhinoceros and at working for and with the communities living around the reserve (“support zone”).

The Ministry of Tourism (MITUR) has signed in June 2007 a memorandum of understanding that delegates the management of the reserve to the IGF Foundation, which will be also in charge of the implementation of the activities financed by the FFEM in that new project. That project is part of a larger development program for the reserve, to which contribute many actors such as the Italian NGO COSV.