Limpopo National Park

Fig. 68.2 Southern entrance gate to Mozambique s Limpopo National Park. (Photo by the author, 2005)...

Similar descriptions grace the advertisements of tourism companies selling African safari experiences. For instance, Transfrontier Trails do Limpopo (2008), the main provider of tourism opportunities in the Limpopo National Park, offers unspoilt, pristine, [and] pioneering experiences of the park s magnificent and remote wilderness. ... 

Fig. 68.5 Relocation of rhinoceros from South Africa to restock the Limpopo National Park with wildlife. The international border fence between Mozambique and South Africa is shown. The truck carrying the rhinoceros is waiting for the Mozambican authorities to clear the appropriate paperwork so that the truck can pass from South Africa into Mozambique. (Photo taken by John...

Landscapes are also transformed by the cross-border aspects of TFPs and TFCAs. The GLTP, for instance, requires the removal of large sections of the apartheid-era international border fence to allow animals to move more freely through these newly opened spaces, to re-establish animal migration routes, and in the case of the Limpopo National Park, to restock wildlife. " At the same time, other barriers are erected within their limits, including new border control... 

To resist the temptation to be overly deterministic, the Mozambican government certainly could have chosen different spatial limits for the Limpopo National Park. 

The Limpopo National Park is, in fact, funded almost entirely by foreign donors. 

For a discussion of the significance of this legislation for the creation of the Limpopo National Park, see Lunstrum (2008). 

Lunstrum, E. (2008). Mozambique, neoliberal land reform, and the Limpopo National Park. Geographical Review, 98(3), 339-355. 

Spierenburg, M., Milgroom, J. (2008). Induced volition resettlement from the Limpopo National Park, Mozambique. Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 26(4), 435-448. 

Relocation of rhinoceros from South Africa to restock the Limpopo National Park with wildlife. The international border fence between Mozambique and South Africa... 

The GLTP is the central feature of the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Conservation Area, a 100,000 km (38,610 mi ) TFCA that includes a number of national parks and protected areas as well as mixed-use zones (see Fig. 68.1). 

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