In May, Angolan President João Lourenço and a high-level ministerial delegation comprising the Governor of the Namibe Province, 16 ministers, traditional authorities, and other dignitaries, visited Iona National Park to inaugurate the newly constructed Pediva headquarters and to witness the release of the second group of Angolan giraffe to be reintroduced to the park.
In a continued effort to restore species diversity in the park, conservation NGO African Parks, which manages the park in partnership with the Government of Angola, reintroduced 13 Angolan giraffes (a subspecies of the southern giraffe) to the park in collaboration with the Giraffe Conservation Foundation (GCF).
Following their capture on a game farm in central Namibia,…