The Government of Zimbabwe is looking into setting up a state-run university of wildlife management, at Mushandike College in Mashava, as part of its strategy to boost the country’s tourism and hospitality sector.
The project would fall in line with priming the tourism and hospitality sectors to link into President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s vision to make the country an upper-middle income economy by 2030.
In a speech read on behalf of the Minister of Environment, Tourism and Hospitality Industry Prisca Mupfumira, the Minister wrote that “opening a wildlife management university would help Zimbabwe accrue more benefits from its rich wildlife resource base”, indicating that Government would train wildlife management experts “capable of extracting benefits from Zimbabwe’s rich and diverse wildlife base to grow the economy”.
“Our wildlife conservation mandate cannot be achieved without highly skilled graduates,” explained Mupfumira. “The new graduates are expected to unlock the value of the tourism sector by translating the knowledge they obtained into tangible marketable products such as wildlife, fisheries and other services.”
