Magazine launches Zim wildlife rescue plan

Source: IOL

Date: November 2, 2005

Author: Anon

Getaway magazine has responded to a report published this week in Independent Newspapers about the plight of wildlife in Zimbabwe's Hwange National Park and has launched a rescue plan to supply fuel to the park's borehole pumps and for anti-poaching.

Getaway's associate editor Don Pinnock said Caltex South Africa, Mitsibishi Fuso and Flame Lily Holidays would source fuel for the park and a vehicle to assist in the deepening crisis.

Independent Newspapers reported that most of the park's borehole pumps were not working because the Zimbabwe government had no foreign currency to import spares.

Hwange National Park's animals depend on water pumped from underground to more than five dozen pans around the vast wilderness.