To address the limitations in providing vacancies for inspectors, the now Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Environment intends, under law 08/20 of 16 April, Conservation Areas Law, to carry out integration actions for people from local communities in managing biodiversity, as explained by the administrator of Iona Park.
Regarding improving working conditions with means and equipment, Sango de Sá highlighted the partnership with African Parks, a regional organization based in South Africa, with experience in Park management, and which has been supporting the maintenance of some means such as vehicles, telecommunications equipment and others.
The official also referred to cooperation with the Skeleton Coast Park, in the neighboring Republic of Namibia, with which an agreement was signed for shared management of the region's transboundary ecological resources.
According to the administrator of Iona Park, Sango de Sá, this process is also moving at half speed, due to Covid-19, but there is a research program created, within the scope of cooperation between ISCED in Huíla and the University of Sciences and Technologies from Namibia, which will involve communities in the conservation and management of biodiversity.
Still within the scope of the same cooperation, Sango de Sá spoke about the existence of another project with RWTC, also regional, which works to tag animals such as cheetahs and wild dogs, with GPS collars, for better conservation of these mammals.
Among the animals that can still be seen in Iona National Park, but in imminent danger of extinction, are the zebra, impala, olongo, ostrich, brown hyena, leopard, long-eared fox, meerkat and meerkat, as well as other species that appear increasingly in reduced numbers, such as the fan goat, guelengue, jackal, baboon and crocodile.
Animals such as giraffe, hippopotamus, rhinoceros, elephant, spotted hyena and lion were no longer seen in Iona Park before 1990.

Source: angop

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