 Overview of the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park
Vision To achieve inter-state collaboration in the conservation of trans-boundary ecosystems and their associated biodiversity, promoting sustainable use of natural resources to improve the quality of life of the peoples of Mozambique, South Africa and Zimbabwe. Mission To collaboratively establish and manage, on a sustainable basis, a viable Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park with full stakeholder participation, including local communities, fostering regional co-operation, biodiversity conservation, and cross-border socio-economic development.  Objectives
Political borders very rarely respect ecological systems, and this transfrontier park will strive to re-establish historical animal migration routes and other ecosystem functions disrupted by fences and incompatible legislation. This unimpeded ecosystem will then also be jointly managed according to harmonised wildlife management policies, promoting the return of a larger and more resilient ecosystem with greater chances of long-term sustainability. Equally important, this park will provide jobs and opportunities to generate revenue for many of the thousands of local people affected by decades of civil war. Improving the lives of these rural communities will in turn further contribute towards biodiversity conservation by demonstrating the economic and social advantages to be achieved through conservation as an alternative and viable land-use option. The broad objectives for the establishment of the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park are to: - foster transnational collaboration and co-operation between Mozambique, South Africa and Zimbabwe in implementing ecosystem management, through the establishment, development and management of the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park
- promote alliances in the management of biological natural resources by encouraging social, economic and other partnerships among the parties, private sector, local communities and NGO's;
- enhance ecosystem integrity and natural ecological processes by harmonising environmental management procedures across international borders and striving to remove artificial barriers impeding the natural movement of animals;
- develop frameworks and strategies whereby local communities can participate in and tangibly benefit from the management and sustainable use of natural resources that occur within the transfrontier park or TFCA;
- facilitate the establishment and maintenance of a subregional economic base by way of appropriate development frameworks, strategies and work plans; and
- develop trans-border eco-tourism as a means for fostering regional socio-economic development.
 Naming the Park
The proposed park was previously known as the Gaza-Kruger-Gonarezhou Transfrontier Park or the GKG. This refers to the three core national constituents: - Gaza Province in Mozambique, part of which - Limpopo National Park - has been incorporated into the transfrontier park. Website address www.limpopopn.gov.mz
- Kruger National Park in South Africa, website address www.sanparks.org
- Gonarezhou National Park in Zimbabwe
The park is now known as the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park.
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