ABOUT AFRICA FUTURA WILDLIFE RESTORATION LDA
Africa Futura Wildlife Restoration Lda is a
Mozambican-registered company, operating in Coutada 5 in
southern Sofala province (refer to the map). The company
is primarily, as the name says, involved with the
restoration of the depleted wildlife of Coutada 5.
The principals of the Coutada are Urs and Oliver
Wettstein, two Swiss businessmen with a long involvement
in wildlife ranching in South Africa, and more recently
also in northern Mozambique in Niassa province. In
developing Coutada 5 they are assisted by a number of
South African and Mozambican specialists. The Management
Committee, who is responsible for the day-to-day
operations and planning of the Coutada, currently
consists of Fritz van Zyl (South African), Pedro
Nhampossa (Mozambican), and Prof Dr PC du Plessis and Mr
AvW Lambrechts (both South Africans). They are assisted
by Dr NHG Jacobsen, a biodiversity specialist based in
South Africa.
Piet du Plessis (65 years) holds a PhD in the economics
of wildlife ranching. He is a retired professor in
Management Accounting at the University of South Africa,
with more than 40 years of direct and indirect
involvement in the wildlife industry in South Africa. He
is regarded as a world-leading expert in wildlife
ranching. As a resource economist concentrating on
wildlife-based matters, he undertook various surveys and
consultancy projects in a number of southern African
countries, including Mozambique.
Arend (Lampies) Lambrechts (70 years) holds a Masters
degree in Nature Conservation, obtained from the
University of Pretoria in South Africa. He retired as
Director of Nature Conservation for the then Transvaal
province in South Africa in 1995. Since then he
undertook numerous consultancy projects in South Africa,
Lesotho, Zambia, Tanzania, Kenya, Switzerland, Ukraine
and quite a number in Mozambique. He has extensive
experience, spanning almost 45 years, in the planning,
development, management and sustainable utilization of
protected areas. He was involved with consultancy
projects sponsored by the World Bank, the Global
Environment Facility and the IUCN, primarily in Africa
but also in Europe. He serves as the Chairman of the
Management Committee for Coutada 5.
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