Protected areas of Mozambique

Protected areas in Mozambique are known as conservation areas, and are currently grouped into national parks, national reserves, forest reserves, wildlife utilisation areas (coutadas), community wildlife utilisation areas and private game farms (fazendas de bravio). There are also a number of areas that have been declared as protected areas under a variety of different legislation, which for reasons of simplicity are here grouped together as "other protected areas." Under the Conservation Law of 2014 (Law 16/2014 of June 20), the protected areas will need to be reclassified into a much more flexible series of new categories which are closer to the international system used by the IUCN. International initiatives such as transfrontier parks are grouped at the end of the page.

National parks

National reserves

Other protected areas
  • Lake Niassa Partial Marine Reserve, Reserva Marinha Parcial de Lago Niassa - Niassa (486 km²)
  • Malhazine Municipal Park, Parque Ecológico de Malhazine - Maputo City (5.6 km²)
  • Ponta do Ouro Partial Marine Reserve, Reserva Marinha Parcial de Ponta do Ouro - Maputo (673 km²)
  • Primeiras and Segundas Islands Environmental Protected Area, Área de Protecção Ambiental do Arquipélago das Ilhas Primeiras e Segundas- Zambezia, Nampula (10,409 km²)
  • Sao Sebastiao Total Protection Area, Area de Proteccao Total de Sao Sebastiao - Inhambane (439 km²)

Community wildlife utilisation areas
  • Chipanje Chetu (6,065 km²)
  • Mitcheu (113 km²)
  • Tchuma Tchato (31,838 km²)

Wildlife utilisation areas
  • Coutada 4 - Manica (4,300 km²)
  • Coutada 5 - Sofala (6,868 km²)
  • Coutada 6 - Sofala (4,563 km²) - extinguished in 2014
  • Coutada 7 - Manica (5,408 km²)
  • Coutada 8 - Sofala (310 km²) - extinguished in 2014; became the Mitcheu Community Conservation Area
  • Coutada 9 - Manica (4,333 km²)
  • Coutada 10 - Sofala (2,008 km²)
  • Coutada 11 - Sofala (1,928 km²)
  • Coutada 12 - Sofala (2,963 km²)
  • Coutada 13 - Manica (5,683 km²)
  • Coutada 14 - Sofala (1,353 km²)
  • Coutada 15 - Sofala (2,300 km²)
  • Coutada 16 - now part of the Limpopo National Park
  • Luabo (558 km²)
  • Lureco (2,226 km²)
  • Marupa
  • Messalo (1,227 km²)
  • Micaúne (240 km²)
  • Mulela (964 km²)
  • Nacúma (2,713 km²)
  • Nicage (Cabo Delgado) (5,400 km²)
  • Nipepe (1,382 km²)
  • Nungo (3,288 km²)

Forest reserves
  • Baixo Pinda (196 km²)
  • Derre (1,700 km²)
  • Inhamitanga (16 km²)
  • Licuáti (37 km²)
  • Maronga (83 km²)
  • Matibane (512 km²)
  • Mecuburi (2,300 km²)
  • Moribane (53 km²)
  • M’palue (51 km²)
  • Mucheve (91 km²)
  • Nhampacue (170 km²)
  • Ribáuè (52 km²)
  • Zomba (28 km²)

Private game farms

As of 2014, there were 50 private game farms in Mozambique.

RAMSAR sites
  • Lake Niassa Ramsar Complex
  • Marromeu Complex

Transfrontier conservation areas
Extension: 2.056 km²
Composition: Mozambique (Chimanimani National Reserve); Zimbabwe (Chimanimani National Park)
  • Limpopo Transfrontier Conservation Area - established at December 10, 2004 among the Mozambique, Zimbabwe and South Africa governments
Extension: 84.868 km²
Composition: Mozambique (Limpopo, Banhine and Zinave National Parks); Zimbabwe (Gonarezhou, Manjinji Pan Sanctuary, Malipati Safari Area, Sengwe Community Area); South Africa (Kruger National Park, Makulele Region)
Extension: 4.170 km²
Composition: Maputo Elephant Reserve (Mozambique), Tembe Elephant Park (South Africa) and Lubombo Conservancy (Swaziland)

See also

References
  1. Parque Nacional de Banhine
  2. Parque Nacional da Gorongosa
  3. Parque Nacional do Limpopo Archived 2009-05-20 at the Portuguese Web Archive
  4. Parque Nacional do Zinave
  5. Reserva Nacional do Chimanimani
  6. Reserva Especial de Maputo
  7. Reserva Nacional do Niassa
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