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16 August 2007
Pilot Lodge - Mozambique

Discussions with the preferred bidder are proceeding well and there is agreement on the terms of the contract. A period of 10+10 with a further 10 years, the terms of which will be renegotiated have been agreed to. Entrance fee of US$15 000,00 has been agreed to. Guaranteed concession fee of US$600 per month, adjusted annually according to average inflation rate for preceding 12 month period. To be confirmed if the contract will set this in US$ or local currency. Offer of 5% of gross revenue will be accepted.

There is ongoing uncertainty over land boundary delimitation and the Canhane Community together with Helvetas is attempting to resolve the matter. This could present a critical stumbling block to negotiations and the process if not resolved.

Pilot Lodge Workshop and Media Trip

A workshop was held at Guludo Beach Lodge in late February, bringing together the various ASL-Mozambique pilot lodge owners and ASL staff and associated experts from Mozambique and South Africa. The workshop was very constructive and informative for all parties and dealt with legal issues, through land demarcation issues, options of community equity, etc. This was followed by a media trip, organised by ASL-Mozambique, which is giving exposure to the ASL programme and its core objectives and activities, as well as promoting the lodges as responsible tourism destinations.

05 July 2010
ASLF newsletter in Portuguese
The March 2010 ASLF newsletter is now available for download in English and Portuguese.

15 March 2010
NEWS FLASH - Tourism concessions awarded to communities
The African Safari Lodge Foundation (ASLF) is pleased to announce that Namibia’s Ministry of Environment and Tourism (MET) recently awarded tourism concessions on state land and in national parks to several conservancies and communities. This is a landmark event that will do much to change lives of the rural poor.

15 January 2010
ASLF Newsletter - Edition 4 December 2009
The December 2009 ASLF newsletter focuses on the African Safari Lodge Foundation's activities in Namibia.

23 October 2009
Newsletter - Edition 3 Sep/Oct 2009
Read the Sep/Oct 2009 ASLF newsletter for an in depth look at the Khomani San Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Land Project as well as more on the Khaudum concession.

03 September 2009
Newsletter - Edition 2 August 2009
Read about the Field Guide Training Best Practice Workshop in the August 09 newsletter.

16 July 2009
Newsletter - Edition 1 June 2009
The newly launched first edition of the African Safari Lodge Foundation newsletter is now available to download.

15 January 2009
Traveler's Philanthropy conference
The African Safari Lodge Foundation, with funding from the Ford Foundation, sponsored the participation of a group of Southern African delegates in the Traveler's Philanthropy conference held in Arusha, Tanzania from 3 – 5 December 2008.

06 June 2008
The ASLF and tourism best practice
India and southern Africa exchange lessons and best practice in using nature tourism as a force for poverty alleviation at a workshop held recently in Johannesburg.

10 January 2008
Khomani San IKS and Land Project
Focusing on the rebuilding of the communities cultural identity, reestablishing the people’s connection with their ancestral land in the Park, facilitating the transmission of indigenous knowledge between generations and the maintenance of IKS, and building organisational capacity in order that the San may effectively manage and benefit from their land in and adjacent to the Park.

03 October 2007
Ibo Island Lodge staff exchange trip
Ibo Island Lodge staff undertake exchange trip

17 September 2007
Socio-Economic Study
Results of a socio-economic study in Northern Mozambique

17 August 2007
Ngala Private Game Reserve, Mpumalanga
South Africa, Pilot Lodge

16 August 2007
Improving Equity for Addo Communities
Addo Elephant National Park, Eastern Cape

16 August 2007
Training Programme at Madikwe
Madikwe Game Reserve, Northern Province

16 August 2007
Training and strategic intervention in the Eastern Cape
Pondoland, Eastern Cape

16 August 2007
Pilot Lodge - Mozambique
Covane Community Lodge