Petition updateProhibit mining in the Lower Zambezi National ParkA decision on the appeal is still awaited; and some corrections and comments to my post on 'The Green Party of Zambia and the Lower Zambezi National Park".

I.P.A. ManningToronto, Canada
May 5, 2015
While we await the appeal, yet again, in my post on the Greeen Party of Zambia and its highlighting of the Lower Zambezi issue, I must correct one or two things I wrote:
In para. 7, it was not Sata who allowed the alienation of customary area on the borders of the Lower Zambezi National Park to Sable Transport, but President Mwanawasa, in 2001. In para. 8, redddesk.org’s description of the REDD+ project suggested that the project area was customary area. We now know that the project area includes the alienated land, as well as a patch of adjoining customary area. In para. 9, I do affirm (despite what may sound like excessive denigration), that the removal of customary area from its legal usufructuaries (villagers resident in the customary area) is a crime against customary people, indeed, against humanity. This should never have been allowed. To make matters worse, should the owner of the land on which this REDD+ project is mounted go bankrupt, his land reverts not to customary area, but to State Land.
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