Lubombo
Transfrontier Conservation Area
Lubombo
The Lubombo TFCA, spanning Mozambique, South Africa, and Eswatini, is a biodiversity hotspot integrating conservation with socio-economic development.
In this landscape, Herding for Health (H4H) is critical for addressing livestock-wildlife conflicts, improving grazing practices, and restoring rangelands. H4H strengthens ecosystem services, enhances ecological connectivity, supports the reduction of bush encroachment, uncontrolled fires, soil erosion, stock theft and improves the livelihoods of small-scale farmers, aligning conservation goals with human well-being across this diverse region. H4H is currently implemented by Peace Parks Foundation in the Maputo National Park in this TFCA.
Mozambique, South Africa, eSwatini
Better livestock management, climate adaptation for communities, enterprise development and government integrated approach to implementing H4H, reduced livestock-wildlife conflict, support of community-based trade and improved market access opportunities
Combined herding, planned grazing, training on herding, primary animal health care, and community governance, leather production, boma production
200, 000 hectares
27, 420 hectares
47 jobs created
760 beneficiaries
18, 000 tons of CO2/annum sequestered
Maputo National Park in southern Mozambique, part of the Lubombo TFCA, is an ecologically rich area that hosts diverse species and serves as a key site for biodiversity conservation. However, human and livestock-wildlife conflict and unsustainable livestock practices threaten its ecosystems. Implementing H4H in this landscape is vital to managing rangeland degradation and fostering sustainable grazing practices. H4H helps balance the needs of local pastoralists with conservation objectives by promoting habitat restoration, enhancing livestock productivity, and reducing human-wildlife conflict.
People, Livestock and Conservation
Herding 4 Health is a community development activity that promotes conservation outcomes while supporting people living in rural areas to find their way out of extreme poverty.
