On 4 April, the High Court in Lusaka upheld the stay of execution previously granted; ‘Until the final determination of the appeal to the court’. Judge Kondolo said if he had lifted the stay of execution granted on 18 February 2014 to the Zambia CBNRM Forum, the Zambia Institute of Environment Management, Zambia Climate Change Network, Chalimbana River Head Waters Conservation Trust, Green Living Movement and David Ngwenyama - the six organisations and individuals who had appealed against the Ministry of Mines plea to allow large-scale open-pit mining in the National Park, it would become ‘Nugatory and rendered academic” because of the likely serious damage to the environment and human health.