The President of the Republic, João Lourenço, travels this Friday afternoon, the seventeenth, to the province of Namibe, the place he inaugurates, tomorrow, within the metropolis of Moçâmedes, the brand new headquarters of the Iona National Park.
Located within the municipality of Tômbwa, the brand new infrastructure of the “biodiversity conservation and administration space of the Iona National Park is a part of the method of revitalizing nationwide parks, the results of a public-private partnership between the Government of Angola and the NGO African Park, of South African origin”, in line with info launched by JA.
The publication states that with this inauguration, “Iona National Park is remodeled into one of many most important belongings of that province, enhancing the aims of preserving biodiversity, growing tourism and cohabitation with vacationer exercise, inclusion and the event of the indigenous neighborhood” .
“Since the beginning of the settlement, signed in December 2019 with the Government of Angola, for the administration of the Iona National Park, over a interval of 20 years, greater than 10 million {dollars} have already been invested, particularly in all forms of infrastructure -structures, rehabilitation, workers recruitment, operational prices, amongst others”, Pedro Monterroso, the particular person liable for the challenge for the corporate African Park, supervisor of the Iona National Park, instructed JA.
During his go to to Namibe, João Lourenço may also “word the implementation of different financial and social tasks within the area, and can maintain an prolonged working assembly with members of the Provincial Government, headed by Governor Archer Mangueira, to evaluate the extent of execution of the totally different sectoral packages in Namibe”.
The Angolan Head of State is anticipated to stay in that province till Sunday, when he returns to Luanda.
