2011 Silver 20c Proof Limpopo - Peace Parks Series Elephant
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TAKE ADVANTAGE OF OUR SPECIALS WITH THIS PROMOTION South African NUMISMATIC COINS in your Hands SET AVAILABLE - CALL TO CONFIRM SILVER - AN ASSET CLASS 2011 PEACE PARK SERIES GREAT LIMPOPO PROOF SILVER COIN 1 oz 20c This Theme Commemorates the Current PEACE PARKS. The area is a national treasure given its enormous historical and archaeological significance as well as the abundant biodiversity that exists in this ecologically sensitive landscape In Zimbabwe the Gonarezhou Game Reserve, meaning "the home of the elephant", was proclaimed in 1934, and later upgraded as the Gonarezhou National Park in 1975. As the name implies, it provided habitat to large herds of elephants, which were decimated during Zimbabwe 's war of liberation, civil strife in bordering Mozambique , and drought during the 1980's. In later years community-based natural resource management in the form of the CAMPFIRE initiative was established with varying degrees of success in communal areas around this park. The outcome nevertheless has been that large areas in south-eastern Zimbabwe are still successfully managed as wildlife conservancies with tourism and game-farming as the main sources of income. |
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20 c Coin Metal: Sterling Silver Mass: 33.626 grams Diameter: 38.725 mm
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Description:
The Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park will link the Limpopo National Park in Mozambique; Kruger National Park in South Africa; Gonarezhou National Park, Manjinji Pan Sanctuary and Malipati Safari Area in Zimbabwe, as well as two areas between Kruger and Gonarezhou, namely the Sengwe communal land in Zimbabwe and the Makuleke region in South Africa into one huge conservation area of 35 000 km² .
The GLTP will bring together some of the best and most established wildlife areas in southern Africa . The park will be managed as an integrated unit across three international borders. The establishment of the GLTP is the first phase in the establishment of a bigger transfrontier conservation area measuring almost 100 000 km².
The larger transfrontier conservation area will include Banhine and Zinave National Parks , the Massingir and Corumana areas and interlinking regions in Mozambique , as well as various privately and state-owned conservation areas in South Africa and Zimbabwe bordering on the transfrontier park. The final delineation of the area will be determined by way of broadly consultative processes that are currently under way. The Great Limpopo TFCA is truly the jewel among the various southern African TFCAs currently being developed.
Major features
The GLTP comprises a vast area of the lowland savannah ecosystem, not only in the transfrontier park itself, but also in the conservation area that will be reintegrated for joint management. This ecosystem is bisected by the Lebombo Mountains running along the border between South Africa and Mozambique . Five major river systems cross this ecoregion in a generally west-east flow. The dry savannah is maintained due to a relatively low average rainfall of about 550 mm per year.
Stone-age artefacts and more recent Iron Age implements at many sites provide evidence of a very long and almost continuous presence of humans in the area making up the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park . Early inhabitants were San hunter-gatherers who left numerous rock-paintings scattered across the region, while Bantu people entered about 800 years ago, gradually displacing the San. The available evidence suggests that humans occurred at low density and were mostly confined to the more permanent river-courses. It is reasonable to assume from the continuous presence at some sites (Pafuri, for example) that humans and wildlife existed in harmony, with no major impact of humans on wildlife or the reverse. The arid nature of the environment, together with an abundance of predators and diseases (e.g. malaria) would have played a role in preventing large-scale human population growth and settlement. Nevertheless, sophisticated cultures already existed by the 16th century, as evidenced by the Thulamela and other ruins near Pafuri.
Reaching back as early as 1505, the Portuguese were the first Europeans to establish a permanent presence in what is now southern Mozambique , but confined themselves mainly to the coastal areas. Their influence - as well as that of earlier Muslim Arabs who controlled the coast in early centuries - on the remote interior was limited initially to gold trading routes with the Munhumutapa Empire in Dzimbabwe (now Zimbabwe), large scale ivory trading from the 16th century onwards, and slave trading up till 1860.
The discovery of gold around Barberton and Pilgrims Rest in the latter half of the 19th century attracted large numbers of Europeans closer to this area, with sustained and increasing hunting pressure on wildlife for sport, food and trade. The massive destruction of game, together with the effects of the Rinderpest outbreak of 1896, led to the proclamation in 1898 of the Sabi Game Reserve in the then Zuid Afrikaansche Republiek (now South Africa). In 1926 this Reserve was greatly expanded into the current-day Kruger National Park . source:Sanparks
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