A short trip was made to the Park Manager of Kalahari Transfrontier Park on the South African side. The manager highlighted some problems they encounter with this plant. He promised to provide contacts of his counterparts working on prosopis project in South Africa.The objectives of the agreement were at a large extent met,two workshops were carried out for the purpose of brainstorming on a proposed project on the development of a management strategy for prosopisin BORAVAST area.
The participants benefited significantly from this workshops as they realy felt they owned the project hence they would be on board if funding comes through and they learnt participatory and discussion tools.Long term benefits include the fact that the communities would benefit from a project of this naturev because it would improve livelihoods.
Through this project a number of of things were learnt which included the following:-

it is extremely important to plan with communities, otherwise they feel alienated when planning is done for them . Its then becomes difficult for them to buy in to a project.
Boravast communities are aware of environmental problems in their area and are trying , by all means possible, to address them
Funding is limiting to what communities can do as the communities are highly impoverished