Kavango–Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area
Kavango–Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA TFCA) was a conservation proposal for a region of Southern Africa where the international borders of five countries converge. It was to include a major part of the Upper Zambezi River and Okavango basins and Delta, the Caprivi Strip of Namibia, the southeastern part of Angola, southwestern Zambia, the northern wildlands of Botswana and western Zimbabwe. The centre of this area is at the confluence of the Zambezi and Chobe Rivers where the borders of Botswana, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe meet. It would have incorporated Chobe National Park, Hwange  National Park, and the Victoria Falls. History. The idea was initiated by the Peace Parks Foundation and the World Wide Fund for Nature. It was inspired by the Okavango–Upper Zambezi International Tourism Initiative and the Four Corners Transboundary Natural Resource Management. In 2003 the ministers responsible for tourism in Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe met in Katima Mulilo, Namibia about the project. In 2006 the Southern African Development Community (SADC) endorsed the KAZA TFCA as a SADC project, and later in 2006 the five partner countries signed a memorandum of understanding at Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe. Lions were studied  throughout the area in 2014. In November 2014, the governments of Zambia and Zimbabwe introduced a common KAZA visa. Components. The Kavango–Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area, along with several wildlife management and hunting blocks, would have comprised the following protected areas: in Zambia: in Namibia: in Botswana: in Zimbabwe: in Angola: