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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 ...
Lapalala Wilderness is a 48,000 hectare Big 5 conservation area situated within the UNESCO [1] declared Waterberg Biosphere and protected under the National Environmental Management Protected Areas Act of 57 of 2003.
The protected areas of South Africa include national parks and marine protected areas managed by the national government, public nature reserves managed by provincial and local governments, and private nature reserves managed by private landowners.
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 ( fauna ), whereas a nature reserve is also, if not equally, concerned ...
One of the secrets of the Game Reserve is their spectacular waterfall, known as Tshihovhohovho Falls. The park is well stocked with game, including a fair number of white rhino in its lowveld zone. [2] The Soutpansberg or “Tha vhani ya muno” (mountain of salt) is in the traditional area of the Venda people. [3]
In 1999, disease-free African buffalo began being bred in Hoedspruit, Limpopo, after which some of those buffalo were settled in Mabalingwe. The Itaga lodge opened in 2000, and two new lodges, namely Boekenhoutplaat and Elandsfontein, were added as well. In 2003, Cyferfontein was developed. By this time, Mabalingwe had grown to around 8,800 ...
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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.