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I don’t know how many of you know Mapungubwe National Park. It is a beautiful, unspoiled part of the Transfrontier park with Botswana. It is very important for us to stand together to protect this magnificent piece of our natural heritage. Why is this so critical? Because they want to start mining in its vicinity!!!

We NEED to preserve this area and its rich diversity of fauna & flora and also protect the Limpopo river basin.

If you have time PLEASE go and sign the petition & forward it to people you know:

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/mapungubwe-threatened-by-adjacent-coal-mine

For further reading if you are interested:

http://www.miningweekly.com/print-version/moving-on-up-2009-03-13

See this shocking part – “Mining at an initial rate of one-million tons a year to 1,5 million tons of coking coal a year will start in the third quarter of this year and will ramp up to 5 million tons a year."

http://www.sanparks.org/parks/mapungubwe/news/2009/media_release_mapungubwe.pdf

http://www.miningmx.com/news/energy/596827.htm

According to an interview on Radio 702, Mapungubwe stands a very good chance of losing it's World heritage status should the mining operations go ahead. Part of the motivation for this status was made on spiritual grounds and the mining operations would render those grounds null and void. This would put South Africa in great disrepute as far as the running of other World heritage sites are also concerned.

A spokesman for the Peace Parks Project was also interviewed and according to him this would be a huge setback and the possibilities are there that this project would not be able to go ahead at all.

Thank you for your time.

Labels: mapungubwe, mining, threat, transfrontier park