Gorongosa – Eden restored

Eden restored - Gorongosa Mozambique

“The rehabilitation of Gorongosa National Park in Central Mozambique represents one of the great conservation opportunities in the world today.” Goroongosa.net web site.  I have been fortunate during the past couple of years to be able to visit the Gorongosa National Park in central Mozambique, during development missions for the World Bank.  We were looking at assisting a local town to provide a sustainable source of water.  The National Park is very large and brought to mind a vision of Eden in its tranquility and wealth of diverse species of flora and fauna.  The park was all but destroyed during the long and brutal Mozambican civil war but a programme of the government and the US Carr Foundation was begun in 2006 to restore the park.  Continue reading “Gorongosa – Eden restored”