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“Operation Noah”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2009

R. A. Critchley
R. A. Critchley
Affiliation:
President, The Game Preservation and Hunting Association of Northern Rhodesia
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The decision to build a dam at Kariba involved the Federal Government and the governments of both Northern and Southern Rhodesia in a vast amount of planning. The resettlement of 50,000 Tonga tribesmen was undertaken at a cost of about £4 million. Plans for the development of three township areas on each side of the new lake are under way.

Type
Research Article
Information
Oryx , Volume 5 , Issue 3 , December 1959 , pp. 100 - 107
Copyright
Copyright © Fauna and Flora International 1959

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* On the point of publication, the following details were received of the new vessel, the first since the Ark to be built especially for animal rescue work. She will be named Erica as a compliment to Mrs. Erica Critchley, than whom nobody has done more to arouse public opinion to the desperate plight of wild animals in Northern Rhodesia. Erica is being built by C. B. R. Bentall Ltd., in Salisbury, to the design of Commander Collumbell, managing director of the firm.

Length 45 ft. Beam 12 ft. Weight 9½ tons. All steel welded construction. Range without refuelling, 450 miles. Power: Two 65 h.p. Perkins diesel engines. There are four sleeping bunks, but the vessel can be operated by one man. Her chief function will be that of a parent ship from which boats can operate, but 180 sq. feet aft, which can also be used for stores, has been specially prepared for rescued animals. A searchlight with half a mile range has been fitted.—Editor.