African Parks who is managing the Bangweulu swamps have been given the go ahead to hunt this year. Good news for those who want Sitatunga, Black lechwe and Tsessebe.

For me this is very encouraging as Royal Kafue is almost an exact model and one that unites the private sector with communities.

Very encouraging indeed.

Good news indeed. Best of luck Andrew!

Good to hear Andrew!

Brett

Great news! Good luck.

Great to hear Mate. Perhaps we can slog around the swamp together someday. Joyce loves Leeches.

Excellent news Andrew, dose this mean Kafue flats will open to?

Excellent Andrew, hope it pans out for you soon.

Cheers, David

Great news indeed Mate

Just said a prayer for you. Keep at it.

Great news Andrew. Good luck!

Awesome news Andrew!

Fantastic!!! - someday I'm going to hunt Zambia. Regards, AIU

"Encouraging news"...we don't hear those words very often on this forum. Congratulations!

Awesome Andrew - keep at it mate!!

I hate looking at photos of big sitatunga - no more work for the next two hours - very distracting!!

Excellent!

Hopefully you will be hunting soon!

That is good news Andrew, hope you come right as well.

Russ Broom

Let's go and hunt a sitatunga, Andrew

quote:

Originally posted by faisal:
Excellent news Andrew, dose this mean Kafue flats will open to?

Last issue of the hunting report said

quote:

...Other Areas: The Bangweulu wetlands
and the Kafue Flats also remain open
for hunting. Species here are sitatunga,
black lechwe, Kafue lechwe, tsessebe,
common reedbuck and oribi.....

Very positive sign. Hope you get it sorted soon.
Best
Steve

Andrew great hunting and good news.

Mike

http://allafrica.com/stories/201303111535.html


Zambia: Masebo Blames Donors for Zawa Troubles
By Peter Adamu, 11 March 2013



Tourism minister Sylvia Masebo has now shifted the blame to donor agencies for the problems that the wildlife sector was facing, saying the pledges they made were not honoured.

Zambia is seeking the help of Germany to recapitalise the Zambia Wildlife Authority (ZAWA) in order to serve the sector from the operational problems it is currently facing.

The minister, on appointment, immediately fired management and dissolved the board alleging corruption and incompetence but in her latest troubleshooting mission is now shifting the blame to donors.

Masebo says ZAWA needs to be urgently recapitalized and restructured in order to survive the hurdles it was facing.

She was speaking in Berlin during a meeting with Germany development funding agencies.

Masebo told the donor funders that lack of institutional capacity arising from financial challenges makes it difficult for ZAWA to execute its mandate of looking after wildlife.

"I don't have the answer (to the problems facing ZAWA) so that is why I have brought this on the table so that you help us. We can work together and I am sure that you have this practice elsewhere.

"If you ask ZAWA to explain their problems they will blame the donors. They will say you gave us a lot of false promises. At the time when the wildlife sector was being transformed as a structural body, ZAWA only had 3000 workers on the ground. The planes, the vehicles, the entire transport system collapsed," she said.

And Masebo claimed that the PF government will create 300, 000 jobs in the tourism and hospitality industry this year alon.

She said frantic efforts were being made to create more jobs in the creative and arts sector.

Masebo told Zambians living in Berlin to help woo tourists to the country's tourism destinations.