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Polokwane Game Reserve, formerly Pietersburg Nature Reserve, [1] is situated near Polokwane in the Limpopo province of South Africa. It is 2800 ha in size, [1] making it one of the largest municipal game reserves in South Africa. [2] The reserve entrance is near its northern limit, about 1 km south of the N1 freeway. It is accessed via Silicon ...
A game reserve (also known as a game park) is a large area of land where wild animals are hunted in a controlled way for sport. [1] If hunting is prohibited, a game reserve may be considered a nature reserve; however, the focus of a game reserve is specifically the animals , whereas a nature reserve is also, if not equally, concerned with all ...
Polokwane (UK: / ˌ p ɒ l ə ˈ k w ɑː n i /, [2] meaning "Sanctuary" in Northern Sotho [3] [4] [5]), also known as Pietersburg, is the capital city of the Limpopo Province in South Africa. It is the country's largest urban centre north of Gauteng. It was one of the nine host cities of the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
The Ranch Resort's location goes through Polokwane and the Limpopo Province, because it is centrally located within the province. Limpopo has a variety of tourism attractions, including mountains, forests, the Kruger National Park, private game reserves, and historical heritage sites such as the nearby Makapansgat Valley World Heritage Site.
Protected areas are subject to reduction, reclassification or declassification (RRD). Between 1981 and 2010 an area of 45,000,000 hectares (110,000,000 acres) was downgraded or lost in this way, with almost 70% of cases occurring since 2008.
National parks are the oldest type of protected area in Brazil. National parks are very important for our rainforest and other areas. Their goal is to preserve ecosystems of great ecological importance and scenic beauty, and to support scientific research, education, environmental interpretation, recreation and eco-tourism through contact with nature.
The concept of a wildlife reserve was spelled out in Law No. 9.985 of 18 July 2000, which established the National System of Nature Conservation Units (SNUC). [1] It is a natural area with populations of native species of fauna, terrestrial and aquatic, resident or migratory, suitable for technical and scientific studies of sustainable economic management of wildlife resources.
Mapesu Private Game Reserve is a big 5 game reserve; elephant, cape buffalo, leopard, white rhino and lion can be spotted whilst on game drive with a qualified guide. The reserve introduced cheetah as part of the Endangered Wildlife Trust's cheetah metapopulation project in 2017 and aims to release African wild dog onto the reserve in 2019.