Africa World Reserve
One candidate for the Africa World Reserve contains the plains and savannas, which stretch across southern Africa. They are home to some of the largest expanses of natural landscape and animal corridors in the world.
As increasing human populations and industrial activities creep further into this ecosystem, it becomes even more important to conserve it. The area stretching from Botswana in the south to Tanzania in the north is an ideal candidate for a World Reserve due to its limited infrastructure, high ecological and biological diversity and global potential for mitigating climate change.
Scroll down to explore how World Reserves, Inc. is working to create one possible version of the Africa World Reserve.
Areas such as Victoria Falls and Lower Zambezi National Park are among the most well-known protected areas on the planet. However, connecting these and many other existing protected areas (as seen highlighted here) would create a massive intact ecosystem.
By building off of existing conserved and protected areas, we are expediting the process of large-scale landscape conservation by filling in the missing areas of interest.
Based on an assessment using data from the UN Environment Program and the Integrated Biodiversity Assessment Tool, this proposed World Reserve would include over 5,100 species on the IUCN Red List, nearly 1,200 existing protected areas and more than 150 Key Biodiversity Areas.
Scroll down to explore how World Reserves, Inc. is defining a potential Africa World Reserve.
Ecologically speaking, it is more beneficial to have larger, connected areas of protection than to have smaller, disjointed areas.
The Africa World Reserve will be a bold and innovative solution to environmental protection and international cooperation.
The Africa World Reserve will cross international borders and cover over 500,000 square miles of primary forest, river systems and mountain regions.
We see this as necessary to ensure the world meets the conservation goals set out by the global scientific community.
