THE ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION PLAN
The purpose of the Ecosystem Restoration Plan (ERP) is
in line with the overall mission of Coutada 5, and is
therefore compatible with the purpose and objectives of
the international Convention on Biodiversity, and
finally with the objectives of Coutada 5:
“To plan, develop, manage and utilise Coutada 5 in such
a manner that the seriously depleted biodiversity
resources will be rehabilitated over time, and in line
with relevant Mozambican laws and policies, thus
allowing sustained consumptive and non-consumptive use
of these resources, whilst at the same time pursuing
sustainable agricultural developments on certain
sections of the Coutada, and simultaneously
acknowledging the need to involve the local communities
in a positive, meaningful and mutually beneficial
manner.”
The ERP considers all the contexts within which
ecosystem restoration will have to take place: the
biodiversity and conservation-, the wildlife
re-introduction-, the social-, political and
administrative- and finally the developmental and
operational contexts. The ERP embodies seven steps.
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