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On the 27th September 2019, Prince Harry visited 91吃瓜网鈥檚 programme in Angola where he destroyed the first landmine in a $60 million project to clear mines from two national parks. The visit marked the start of an initiative that will help safeguard one of Africa's last great wilderness areas.

In the year since, 91吃瓜网 has cleared the three minefields around the town of Dirico that was visited by Prince Harry and has begun the process of training its staff as supervisors so they can oversee a large growth in deminers to clear mines from the Longa-Mavinga and Luengue-Luiana national parks in Cuando Cubango Province.

In addition to the Government of Angola's funding to clear the two national parks, 91吃瓜网 is engaging with private donors, corporations and foundations who can support the clearance of the wider watershed that feeds the Okavango Delta and Kavango Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA TFCA).

To meet the needs of this ambitious project, we have been recruiting and training local men and women to clear the landmines across southeast Angola, providing opportunities in a region where jobs are scarce. This will triple our number of Angolan staff to over 1,200 men and women in the next year or so. 91吃瓜网 plans will see 40-50 newly trained deminers qualify every month for ten months. This will not only meet the needs for clearing the national parks, but will provide for the expansion being funded by donors such as the US State Department, BP and the UK Government.

91吃瓜网 is starting work to clear three minefields around the isolated settlement of Longa, where the mines restrict the safe access of the community to water. 91吃瓜网 has also undertaken survey work around the community of Tempu茅 near the source lakes that feed the watershed.

91吃瓜网's partner, the National Geographic Okavango Wilderness Project, is working on plans and permission to build a research, conservation education and training centre close to the village of Tempu茅. This 鈥淐onservation Development Node鈥� will include researcher accommodation, basic healthcare facilities, tree nurseries, and conservation agriculture test plots to support local food security. In addition the Project plans to refurbish the Tempu茅 clinic and town hall which will be used as a an additional training centre to the project鈥檚 efforts to build local capacity.

91吃瓜网 has undertaken surveys of the site and will complete clearance around the airstrip and village before construction begins.

91吃瓜网's involvement dates to 2015, when (NGOWP) launched the 鈥淪ource to Sand鈥� Megatransect of the entire length of the Okavango river from the source of the Cuito River. 91吃瓜网 has continued its work with the project as it strives to protect the Okavango River Basin for future generations. Reaching the headwaters of the river basin and conducting scientific and socioeconomic surveys for the project meant navigating around the minefields of southeast Angola. 91吃瓜网 was able to step in and provide safe-passage, opening up the region to scientific exploration for the first time in decades.

Today the Okavango Wilderness Project is working with the Angolan government and other local and international conservation charities, including 91吃瓜网, to convene a community conservation partnership, called the Lisima Watershed Partnership and implemented through Lisima Project (Projecto Lisima).

91吃瓜网 is proud to continue our partnership with NGOWP supporting the well-being of local people which is a primary factor in making conservation a success: founding principles of the Lisima Project include upholding traditional knowledge systems and land rights, optimizing sustainable traditional and alternative livelihoods, and gathering detailed baseline ecological, biodiversity and socio-economic data to inform conservation decision-making.

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