Mountains to Mangroves
Gorongosa National Park and its Sustainable Development Zone (Buffer Zone) are an integral part of a much larger ecosystem that covers more than 25,000 square kilometers in central Mozambique. This region was historically an important corridor for wildlife movements between the Rift Valley and the Zambezi Delta, supporting the entire population of the rare “selous” zebra and one of the largest concentrations of Africa buffalo on the continent. It encompasses East Africa Coastal Forest (an ecosystem of global importance for biodiversity conservation) and some of the most extensive mangroves on the African coast. In addition to Gorongosa National Park and its Sustainable Development Zone (Buffer Zone), this larger ecosystem includes the Marromeu Special Reserve, four hunting concessions, two forest reserves, and communal lands containing forest concessions.
Local conservationists, rural development workers, and land-use planners are working together toward a common vision to manage this land from Mount Gorongosa to the Zambezi Delta as the “Mountain to Mangrove” integrated resource management and conservation area. Although the status of the individual community lands, concessions, and protected areas would not change, this broader vision for coordinated landscape-scale resource management offers tremendous opportunities for economic advancement and tourism development in the region as well as biodiversity conservation. This type of integrated management was a vision of former park ecologist, Dr. Kenneth Tinley, three decades ago, and today we are closer than ever to realizing this dream.
Open this full-screen map to see the Gorongosa ecosystem. 
Read this 1968 account from ecologist Kenneth Tinley about his work in Gorongosa National Park. )){kind=link}