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A CONSERVATION TRIUMPH

The KAZA TFCA links five countries across southern Africa, roughly along the Okavango and Zambezi rivers.

At 519 9Ukm2 in size, it's enormous, larger than Germany and Austria combined and nearly twice as large as the UK. And it caters to large-scale migrations of megafauna, including several Red Data Book species that have global biological importance. It also helps the conservation of threatened species such as African wild dog, wattled crane, Nile crocodile and cheetah.

Angola, Namibia, Botswana, Zambia and Zimbabwe are in the KAZA team. It covers 36 protected areas across national boundaries, making it the world's largest terrestrial transfrontier conservation area KAZA is a place where borders are porous, and the

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