Mana Pools National Park, Sapi and Chewore Safari Areas,Zimbabwe.

This  heritage Site is an area of dramatic landscape and ecological processes. Physically protected by the Zambezi River to the north and the steep escarpment (which rises to over 1,000 m from the valley floor) to the south, this site provides shelter for immense congregations of Africa’s large mammal populations which concentrate in its flood plains. While black rhino has disappeared since the property’s inscription, huge herds of elephant and buffalo, followed by zebra, waterbuck and many other antelope species and their associated predators including lion and hyena migrate to the area each year during the dry winter months.

Thank you Virva for my first ever written card from your country.It is beautiful and thank you.

Date of Inscription: 1984

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2005 Stamp-Birds (Set of 4 stamps)

Mosi-oa-Tunya / Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe AND Zambia.

The Mosi-oa-Tunya/Victoria Falls is the world’s most spectacular waterfalls in the world greatest sheet of falling water. It is also significant worldwide for its exceptional geological and geomorphological features and active land formation processes with outstanding beauty attributed to the falls i.e. the spray, mist and rainbows. This transboundary property extends over 6860 ha and comprises 3779 ha of the Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park (Zambia), 2340 ha of Victoria Falls National Park (Zimbabwe), 741 ha of the riverine strip of Zambezi National Park (Zimbabwe).  The waterfall stands at an altitude of about 915 m above sea level and spans to about 1708 m wide Sprays from this giant waterfall can be seen from a distance of 30 km from the Lusaka road, Zambia and 50 km from Bulawayo road, Zimbabwe. Basalts have been cut by a river system producing a series of eight spectacular gorges that serve as breeding sites for four species of endangered birds.
Zambia
Zimbabwe
Livingstone District of Southern Province of the Republic of Zambia and
Hwange District of Matabeleland North Province of Zimbabwe
Date of Inscription: 1989
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