Petition updateProhibit mining in the Lower Zambezi National ParkZimbabwe civil society petition - please sign
I​.​P.A. ManningToronto, Canada
Dec 5, 2014 — https://www.change.org/p/the-ministers-responsible-for-environment-management-and-mining-in-africa-stop-open-cast-copper-mining-in-the-lower-zambezi-national-park-zambia?just_created=true My note on the petition: Zambia’s action plan for implementing the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) programme of work on protected areas (PoWPA) was submitted on 31 May 2012 to the CBD Secretariat by Zambia’s the Ministry of Lands, Natural Resources and Environmental Protection in which they confirmed that they would ‘Enact legislation on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from the Utilization of Genetic Resources’, so confirming the Nagoya Protocol of the CBD and the rights of customary people not to have mining if they so wish and to have their sacred groves in the Park protected. They also stated that there are 19 National Parks that, ‘exclude exploitation or occupation inimical to the purposes of designation of the area …’. Therefore, as Chiefs Chiawa, Chipepo, Simamba, Sinadambwe, Mphuka and Mburuma on 18 October 2008 met and issued an historic declaration against mining on behalf of 17 chiefdoms of the Zambezi Basin, any mining is an unprincipled affront to Zambia’s membership of the CBD.
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