This programme focus will address the following issues:
There is need for a paradigm shift in conservation policy toward spatially connected, inter-dependent parks and reserves to ensure long-term ecological integrity and viability of wildlife populations.
Developing policy incentives and institutional mechanisms for negotiating access and acquisition of portions of wildlife migration corridors currently under private ownership or public infrastructure.
Implementing trans-boundary management of parks and reserves will require novel policy, legal and institutional regimes to coordinate multiple stakeholders including governments, national wildlife authorities and private/communal interests.