At present there are 545 Parks registered for Southern Africa in the Worldwide Fauna and Flora database - 8 in Eswatini, 7 in Lesotho, 13 in Botswana, 10 in Mozambique, 26 each in Namibia and Zimbabwe and 455 in South Africa.

The Southern African Parks-on-the-Air programme will run 1 January to 31 December 2020 with various awards available for activators and chasers.

For an activity to be valid, you must make sure you and all your gear are inside the reserve, on foot, bicycle, motorbike, car, motorhome. You must make 10 QSOs (44 QSOs for the international awards) for your activity to count towards an activator award, but the QSOs can be made over a number of days.

You can only work from one reference at a time - so if you are in a park that is a sub-region of a larger park you can only use the reference of the sub-region. You will also have to provide photographic proof of your activity using pictures of a GPS device (car navigation for example), park signs and your set-up.

The Park-on-the-Air website and the various awards are being finalised and more information will be available in the January 2020 issue of Radio ZS.