A project longed for by the population, especially nature lovers, for many years, the Park rehabilitation project Chimalavera Regional, today on the fly, is an initiative of the Ministry of the Environment and the Provincial Government of Benguela.
The objective is to provide inhabitants and tourists, in Benguela, with a new image of that environmental treasure for the protection of plant and animal species, with a predominance of Fan Goat. According to the head of the Tourism Department in Benguela, João Calete, the work will start next year and, after its completion, the Management will pass to the Ministry of Tourism, with a view to promoting the space.
It is clear that the project consists of restoring some infrastructure in a state of degradation, including the fence, previously in concrete piles and wire, and today non-existent.
For him, the current conditions of the park are not good, which puts the safety of the animals at risk, hence the intention of authorities to improve fencing and accommodation and catering facilities to accommodate tourists.
It highlights biodiversity in the park as another aspect of the project, that is, animal repopulation, under the auspices of the Ministry of Environment. “At the moment, we have few animals there, from the Fan Goat to some birds.
We need to have more animals to attract more people to the park”, he asserts.
In view of this, he said, the park is operating at half capacity, being practically “on the fly”, without the huge flow of tourists from the recent years. Poaching threatens fauna João Calete thinks that reinforcing supervision, with forest guards, is also part of the Park's rehabilitation project Chimalavera Region.
And he took the opportunity to denounce that the few animals in the Chimalavera Regional Natural Park are being hunted stealth, similar to what also happens in the Kapembawe private environmental park.
Despite the huge investment in the Kapembawe park, he warns that hunters are already jumping the fence to hunt the animals, from Botswana and Tanzania.
The situation led to the temporary closure of this private park, for rehabilitation works and construction of the fence, as advanced. “Because there was a place close to the river that was not fenced off.
The animals left the park, went to the river and never came back”, he explained, recognizing that Kapembawe will reopen its doors. Inside Chimalavera Park Located approximately 30 kilometers from the city of Benguela, Chimalavera has an area of 150 square kilometers.
It was established as a special reserve by Legislative Diploma nº 4124 of 05.06.1971 and elevated to the status of Natural Park Regional by ordinance nº 352 of 04/15/1974.
Consisting of a high plain surrounded by more or less steep mountains and with altitudes varying between 50 m and 265 m, the park, due to the lack of rivers or lakes, depends on the animals' watering from a borehole and a water net. pumping and distribution tanks, which have long been inoperative.
Currently, it is carried out by a tanker which, irregularly and insufficiently, supplies water to the two existing drinking fountains.
The vegetation cover is scarce and consists of low herbaceous vegetation (grass) and thorn trees (acacias).
Despite this, it manages to maintain small groups of Fan Goats, as well as small groups of monkeys - the Macaco Cão - especially when there is water. There were once other species in the park such as Zebras, Cabra das Pedras, Jackals, among others. JH/CRB
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