Participatory methodologies for a responsible tourism: the Zinave National Park (Mozambique)

The Zinave National Park (Mozambique), included in a system of protected areas known as the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park, is the experimental area for the application of a particular approach to the involvement of local communities in the conservation effort: the community conservation. In order to achieve this implicative form, as part of a Ph.D. thesis*, a field research aimed at recovering the local knowledge and the traditional values related to the use of resources in the villages located within the protected area was carried out.