The Climate Change Programme of the Peace Parks Foundation team recently conducted two large field surveys in an area of the Kavango-Zambezi (KAZA) Transfrontier Conservation Area (TFCA), with the help of the Government of Zambia.
The Zambian KAZA TFCA is home to pristine forest that is unfortunately at threat of both deforestation and degradation, which with the current threat of climate change would be a disaster. A large biomass data collection process was undertaken over a 1.5million hectare area, which was ongoing for 6 weeks, and looks into soil samples, as well as grass and tree samples. The survey was the first of its kind in the area, owing to the sheer scale.
The results are expected to give a further insight into the ecological understanding of the area, as well as a basis to form a fire management plan and future climate change mitigation initiatives, but will take a number of weeks to materialise.
The team was made up of Zambian Wildlife Authority and Forestry Department officials, as well as Peace Parks Foundation staff and fire ecologists from the Working-on-Fire International alongside members of the local communities.
