In a move aimed at strengthening national ownership and support for the implementation of transboundary conservation, the SADC region is advancing transfrontier cooperation on environment and natural resource management.     

This development emerged at the just-ended two-day National Dialogue on Raising Awareness of the SADC Transfrontier Conservation Areas (TFCAs) Programme that runs from 2023 to 2033 and the Natural Resources Management Frameworks conference held in Maputo, Mozambique.

The head of communications and public relations at the SADC Secretariat, Barbara Lopi, told NBC News in an interview that member states were called to implement a more coordinated approach to implementing TFCAs at the national level.

Through sustainable natural resource management initiatives among member states, Lopi said the implementation of TFCAs needed a multi-sectoral approach strengthened by regional cooperation objectives.

"The meeting sought to strengthen national ownership, enhance cross-sectoral collaboration and foster broad-based support for the implementation of transboundary conservation and sustainable natural resource management initiatives."

Namibia participates in several TFCAs spanning international borders to protect shared ecosystems, wildlife corridors, and natural resources, among them the Kavango-Zambezi, which is the world's largest transboundary conservation landscape