The MAPA project (Mapping Africa’s Protected Areas) is working to define where Africa’s national parks begin and end.  That means creating a digital archive of the boundaries, roads, and infrastructure for over 1,000 conservation areas. A fleet of expedition-equipped 4WDs has set out from South Africa in what has been described as an insanely ambitious transcontinental scientific relay race on a monumental scale,  attempting to map the continent’s last uncharted wildernesses.

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