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Credit: Andrii Zorii/Getty Images. Last month, reports that Angola was drafting legislation to permit oil, gas, and mining activities in 14 national conservation areas, including the Luengue-Luiana National Park, which represents part of the Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area stretching across Angola, Namibia, Botswana, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, led to protests by environmentalist groups. Local environmentalists were outraged, likely wary of test drilling that had begun days earlier on the Namibian side of the Okavango Delta, an internationally recognized biodiversity hotspot. On 21 January, Angola’s Minister of Mineral Resources, Petroleum, and Gas, Diamantino Pedro Azevedo responded, providing clarifications in which he noted that Angola’s existing stringent environmental legislation would be complied with and the interests of local populations would be safeguarded as the country holds an upcoming public tender for the assessment of several onshore interior basins. F

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