List of protected areas of Mozambique

Protected areas in Mozambique are known as conservation areas, and are currently grouped into national parks, national reserves, forest reserves, wildlife utilisation areas (coutadas), community wildlife utilisation areas and private game farms (fazendas de bravio). There are also a number of areas that have been declared as protected areas under a variety of different legislation, which for reasons of simplicity are here grouped together as "other protected areas." Under the Conservation Law of 2014 (Law 16/2014 of June 20), the protected areas will need to be reclassified into a much more flexible series of new categories which are closer to the international system used by the IUCN. International initiatives such as transfrontier parks are grouped at the end of the page.

National parks

National reserves

Other protected areas
  • Lake Niassa Partial Marine Reserve, Reserva Marinha Parcial de Lago Niassa - Niassa (486 km2)
  • Malhazine Municipal Park, Parque Ecológico de Malhazine - Maputo City (5.6 km2)
  • Ponta do Ouro Partial Marine Reserve, Reserva Marinha Parcial de Ponta do Ouro - Maputo (673 km2)
  • Primeiras and Segundas Islands Environmental Protected Area, Área de Protecção Ambiental do Arquipélago das Ilhas Primeiras e Segundas- Zambezia, Nampula (10,409 km2)
  • Sao Sebastiao Total Protection Area, Area de Proteccao Total de Sao Sebastiao - Inhambane (439 km2)

Community wildlife utilisation areas
  • Chipanje Chetu (6,065 km2)
  • Mitcheu (113 km2)
  • Tchuma Tchato (31,838 km2)

Wildlife utilisation areas
  • Coutada 4 - Manica (4,300 km2)
  • Coutada 5 - Sofala (6,868 km2)
  • Coutada 6 - Sofala (4,563 km2) - extinguished in 2014
  • Coutada 7 - Manica (5,408 km2)
  • Coutada 8 - Sofala (310 km2) - extinguished in 2014; became the Mitcheu Community Conservation Area
  • Coutada 9 - Manica (4,333 km2)
  • Coutada 10 - Sofala (2,008 km2)
  • Coutada 11 - Sofala (1,928 km2)
  • Coutada 12 - Sofala (2,963 km2)
  • Coutada 13 - Manica (5,683 km2)
  • Coutada 14 - Sofala (1,353 km2)
  • Coutada 15 - Sofala (2,300 km2)
  • Coutada 16 - now part of the Limpopo National Park
  • Luabo (558 km2)
  • Lureco (2,226 km2)
  • Marupa
  • Messalo (1,227 km2)
  • Micaúne (240 km2)
  • Mulela (964 km2)
  • Nacúma (2,713 km2)
  • Nicage (Cabo Delgado) (5,400 km2)
  • Nipepe (1,382 km2)
  • Nungo (3,288 km2)

Forest reserves
  • Baixo Pinda (196 km2)
  • Derre (1,700 km2)
  • Inhamitanga (16 km2)
  • Licuáti (37 km2)
  • Maronga (83 km2)
  • Matibane (512 km2)
  • Mecuburi (2,300 km2)
  • Moribane (53 km2)
  • M'palue (51 km2)
  • Mucheve (91 km2)
  • Nhampacue (170 km2)
  • Ribáuè (52 km2)
  • Zomba (28 km2)

Private game farms

As of 2014, there were 50 private game farms in Mozambique.

Ramsar sites

Transfrontier conservation areas
Extension: 2.056 km2
Composition: Mozambique (Chimanimani National Reserve); Zimbabwe (Chimanimani National Park)
Extension: 84.868 km2
Composition: Mozambique (Limpopo, Banhine and Zinave National Parks); Zimbabwe (Gonarezhou, Manjinji Pan Sanctuary, Malipati Safari Area, Sengwe Community Area); South Africa (Kruger National Park, Makulele Region)
Extension: 4.170 km2
Composition: Maputo Elephant Reserve (Mozambique), Tembe Elephant Park (South Africa) and Lubombo Conservancy (Eswatini)

See also

References
  1. Parque Nacional de Banhine
  2. Parque Nacional da Gorongosa
  3. Parque Nacional do Limpopo Archived 2009-05-20 at the Portuguese Web Archive
  4. Parque Nacional do Zinave
  5. Reserva Nacional do Chimanimani
  6. Reserva Especial de Maputo
  7. Reserva Nacional do Niassa
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