A cry of hope comes from the Africa of the third millennium for the animals and environment. New determination and new tendencies are turning austral Africa into a mine of initiatives in favour of wildlife and conservation. The ancient frontiers are falling and from South Africa to Nambia, from Zimbabwe to Botswana and Mozambique, the barbed wire is giving way to great new transnational parks, repopulated with great difficulty, and the use of more and more advanced means and technologies. Under the auspices of the Nobel prize winner for peace, Nelson Mandela, man here seems to have decided to work in favour of nature and not only exploit it.