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Zimbabwe Parks Wildlife Authority has opened some of its parks to local tourists after the government relaxed lockdown measures on tourism sector.
The government opened up the tourism sector last week but did not lift the ban on intercity travel.
Zimparks spokesperson Tinashe Farawo said, “Last week Government gave us the greenlight to open our national parks to visitors, so we have made a decision to open most of the parks,”.
“We rely mostly on tourism to fund our conservation activities and this includes law enforcement as well as reacting to human/wildlife conflict incidents”.
“Over the past three months, we have been facing serious challenges in terms of responding within reasonable time, to human/wildlife conflict incidents because we were not generating income”.
Farawo also said ZimParks was putting safety measures in place to ensure that their parks will not be COVID-19 hotspots.
“We are putting mechanisms in place to ensure that our people will be safe, we don’t want to be a source of Covid-19. All our staff are undergoing the mandatory Covid-19 test so that they are ready to receive visitors”.
“We are busy regularly sanitising areas, which visitors patronise, we will also be doing the basic screening checks for our visitors.We want to assure visitors that as ZimParks, we are doing all reasonably possible to guarantee their safety and thus urge them to visit our parks”.
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