Peace Parks Foundation

Peace Parks Foundation (PPF} engages in and promotes biodiversity conservation, regional stability and socioeconomic development by facilitating the establishment and development of transfrontier conservation areas in southern Africa. Transfrontier Conservation Areas (TFCAs), also known as peace parks, are ecological systems that straddle the boundaries of neighbouring countries. PPF assists countries to create peace parks, thus enabling harmonised management of ecosystems shared across intemational borders. Wild animals, and tourists, are able to move across borders where once there were fences. In this manner, ecosystems are managed as a unified entity and not separately by the countries involved. The creation of peace parks thus leads to improved biodiversity conservation through improved land and ecosystem management. Peace parks development also contributes to improving socio-economic circumstances of people living in and around these areas through sustainable community conservation and eco-tourism initiatives.