• • The Niassa National Reserve is in Mozambique, a British Commonwealth country.
  • Twice the size as Kruger National Park at 10,000,000 acres and 42,000km². Comparable in size to Wales, Denmark or Massachusetts.
  • Borders with Tanzania and contains the largest concentration of game in Mozambique.
  • Home to globally recognized and threatened species: wild dogs, lions and elephants.
  • Ideal habitat to re-establish the black rhino. The last rhino went locally extinct less than ten years ago!
  • Over 400 bird species and three endemic mammal species: the Niassa Wildebeest, Boehm’s Zebra, and Johnston’s Impala.
  • One of the largest Miombo woodland preserves in the world.
  • Remote, pristine wilderness with an indigenous population of 60,000 and virtually no tourism infrastructure.
  • Under severe threat from poaching, artisanal mining and illegal forestry due to limited governmental and NGO oversight and insufficient community engagement.
  • Divided into 18 blocks only of which 7 have any real conservation effort.

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