Mpumalanga Tourism and Parks Agency (MTPA) has entered into a strategic partnership with world-renowned NGO, The Aspinall Foundation, and its South African subsidiary, WeWild Africa.
The strategic partnership will unlock the conservation and ecotourism potential of the Loskop Dam Nature Reserve and the surrounding areas known as the Loskop Cluster, with a vision of creating one of the largest Big Five Game Reserves in South Africa.
This will be the first agreement of its kind in the country where a Provincial Conservation Agency has facilitated a 25-year agreement to unlock investment into a provincial protected area. The partnership will upgrade reserve infrastructure such as roads, fences, staff accommodation, and field ranger compounds. Additional strategic staff and anti-poaching units will be deployed with a key objective of providing additional capacity for the reserve.
Loskop Dam Nature Reserve is approximately 23 500 ha in size and is co-owned by the MTPA and the Mamurumo…
