Cameia – The director of the National Institute of Biodiversity and Conservation Areas, Miguel Xavier, informed on Wednesday in Cameia, eastern Province of Moxico, that the Angolan government is focused on strengthening environmental inspectors to secure wildlife corridors.
Speaking to the press, as part of a working visit carried out by the secretary of State for the Environment, Yuri Valter Santos, to Cameia National Park, he said that the protection of wildlife corridors aims to allow the movement and settlement of animals in national parks.
He said that the park already has 20 inspectors, a number that should increase in the near future.
In addition to environmental inspectors, the government reinforced the park with another vehicle and motorcycles, to help monitor the perimeter of this park.
He announced that by 2025, the Cameia National Park will become functional, like the others in the country, with the creation of all basic conditions, with emphasis on infrastructure.
He reiterated that the recovery of all national parks is a government's challenge.
Located in a total area of 14,450 square km, Cameia National Park was defined as a Hunting Reserve in 1937 and transformed into a park in 1957.
The park is limited to the East by the Zambezi River, to the South by the Luena River and to the West by the Benguela Railway (CFB) line, which crosses it to the North.
A large part of the park is made up of plains flooded by large rivers that are part of the Zambezi hydrographic basin, such as the Luena, Lumeji and Chifumage, where among other species there are animals such as Cobo-Lechwe, warthog, hyenas, foxes and others.
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