Cattle Welcome in Mapungubwe National Park

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There is indeed a different purpose of the "Park" compared to KNP. Mapungubwe is a World Heritage site and inscribed as a Cultural Landscape,

"Combined works of nature and humankind, they express a long and intimate relationship between peoples and their natural environment"

https://whc.unesco.org/en/culturallandscape/#2

This is very different from a traditional National Park and can mean that there is lifestock grazing in a National Park as is the case in the Richterveld Cultural Landscape (and National Park).



In this case it is also a TFCA and there are different forms of landuse: the national park in SA and the private reserve in Bots, game farms with trophy hunting, irrigation farming, mining, communal land and free hold land and private farms.
Wildlife can cross international borders, but otherwise there is no joint management so far and zonation has to be developed to seperate wildlife from lifestock. A paper park in the development stage and so far there is limited capacity to deal with lifestock wandering into the wildlife areas.
And as usual the communities in the area are not represented on the planning and decision making committees.


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:no:

They can spin it however they want, it is just inadequacy. It is also frankly condescending to assume that locals are incapable of understanding rules and boundaries. They are not actually stupid and can adapt too.


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You might not like it, Richprins, but a Cultural Landscape is not an area were only wildlife matters.

And with the removal of the international border fences, the problems starts when wildlife, people and lifestock can move but there is no joint management of these movements. There is not even a platform for communication or negotiation.
Mapungubwe rangers can drive back the cattle or tolerate it if it is only small numbers on occasions and not compromising the ecosystem.

The park does also not generate enough income to employ a force of field rangers to do something about it. One of the SANParks being unable to fund conservation from tourism revenue generated.

(Mapungubwe needs another conceccion in Kruger to generate funds for conservation of Mapungubwe lol )


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but explained that the park had been declared as a cultural landscape

Who "declared" it a cultural landscape, and what prevents them from declaring anywhere else a cultural landscape, according to their fancy? Smoke and mirrors.


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The Mapungubwe Cultural Landscape (MCL) was gazetted as a National Heritage Site
by the South African Heritage Resources Agency (SAHRA) in December 2001. The MCL which
covers the boundary of the national park was subsequently inscribed on the United Nations
Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s (UNESCO) World Heritage List in 2003. In
Government Notice No. 71 Government Gazette 31832 of 30 January 2009 the then Minister of
Environmental Affairs and Tourism, Marthinus van Schalkwyk announced the MCL as a World
Heritage Site in terms of the World Heritage Convention Act (Act No. 49 of 1999), and delegated
specified powers of management to SANParks.
5.1 Purpose of the park
The NEM: PAA requires that the park be managed in accordance with the purpose for which it
was declared. The original purpose of the park was not officially specified, in neither the first
gazetted declaration nor any subsequent addition. However, the initial motivation for
establishing the park was to conserve and preserve the cultural heritage value and assets.
SANParks will manage the park, firstly in accordance with its organisational vision and secondly
in accordance with the mission and objectives hierarchy that were derived through consultation
with stakeholders, as set out in this section.
The mission defines the fundamental purpose of the park, succinctly describing why it exists and
what it does to achieve its vision. The following mission was developed after extensive
consultation with stakeholders during 2 public workshops held on 17 and 18 April 2018:
MISSION
“To effectively conserve and promote Mapungubwe National Park and World Heritage Site as a
unique cultural and natural landscape through collaborative decision making with descendants
and stakeholders that improves access and benefit sharing within a biodiverse transfrontier
region”.
https://www.sanparks.org/assets/docs/co ... aft-v2.pdf


There are different types of UNESCO sites and Mapungubwe is a Cultural Landscape:
DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS AND TOURISM
No. 71 30 January 2009
WORLD HERITAGE CONVENTION ACT, 1999 (ACT NO. 49 OF 1999)
WORLD HERITAGE CONVENTION ACT, 1999 (No. 49 of 1999): PROCLAMATION OF
MAPUNGUBWE CULTURAL LANDSCAPE AS A WORLD HERITAGE SITE AND DELEGATION BY
THE MINISTER OF CERTAIN POWERS AND DUTIES TO THE SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL
PARKS (SANPARKS)
I, Marthinus Christoffel Johannes van Schalkwyk, Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism hereby
proclaim by virtue of the powers vested in me in terms of section 1(xxiv) (a) of the World Heritage
Convention Act, 1999 (Act No.49 of 1999), Mapungubwe Cultural landscape, inscribed in 2003 on the
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage list, to be a
World Heritage Site, as described in the Annexure below.
I hereby delegate, by virtue of the powers vested in me in terms of section 43(1) of the World Heritage
Convention Act, 1999 (Act No.49 of 1999), to SANParks to exercise only those powers and duties
referred to in section 13(2) of the Act in connection with the Mapungubwe Cultural landscape World
Heritage Site.
In order fm the delegate to be able to perform its duties, I furthermore declare that sections 33, 35, 36,
37,39,40 (1) and (2), and 42 of the Act shall apply to the delegate.
https://www.gov.za/sites/default/files/ ... 183271.pdf


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Grassing cattle has not much to do with culture IMO. Man has been farming all over the world for the last 13.000 years.


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Its just like PE ...The townships have cattle but now with the new dispensation ..wandering cattle in the suburbs are not picked up anymore and the owners fined ...Now they wander everywhere onto School Sports fields into Peoples gardens ..onto the Airport ..Want votes ..leave our cattle alone ..A Free for all ..Like Zimbabwean cattle wandering across a dry Limpopo UNATTENDED ..Just introduce Lions to the Park ..Problem solved


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Interestingly, Afrikaner farmers used to graze their livestock in the Pretoriuskop area of Kruger in the late 1800s and early 1900s, until that was stopped after declaration of the National Park. I wonder if they could claim to have that reinstated on cultural grounds? -O- :-?


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Peter Betts wrote: Mon Jul 08, 2019 6:30 am ..Just introduce Lions to the Park ..Problem solved
I don't think so. It will prob make the problem worse.
Every farmer within 200km will probably be knocking on SANP door claiming their cows were killed by the lions, and demand compensation. 0*\


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Richprins wrote: Tue Jul 09, 2019 9:29 am Interestingly, Afrikaner farmers used to graze their livestock in the Pretoriuskop area of Kruger in the late 1800s and early 1900s, until that was stopped after declaration of the National Park. I wonder if they could claim to have that reinstated on cultural grounds? -O- :-?
=O: =O: =O:


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