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South African National Parks (SANParks) is the body responsible for managing South Africa's national parks. SANParks was formed in 1926, and currently manages 19 parks consisting of 3,751,113 hectares (37,511.13 km 2 ), [ 3 ] over 3% of the total area of South Africa.
West Coast National Park - SANParks The West Coast National Park lies 88 km (55 mi) north of Cape Town in the Western Cape province of South Africa . [ a ] The park is found inside of the Cape West Coast Biosphere Reserve , part of the UNESCO Man and the Biosphere Programme .
Golden Gate Highlands National Park is located in Free State, South Africa, near the Lesotho border.It covers an area of 340 km 2 (130 sq mi). [1] The park's most notable features are its golden, ochre, and orange-hued, deeply eroded sandstone cliffs and outcrops, [2] especially the Brandwag rock. [3]
Every morning and evening (Central Africa Time), Wildearth broadcast 3-hour live drives that take place at Sabi Sands, Ngala, Phinda, Maasai Mara, and Pridelands.These drives feature trained safari guides (referred to as "naturalists" on the show) who take viewers around the area and also provide information about what is being seen, as well as a camera operator who films the plants and ...
The Karoo National Park is a wildlife reserve in the Great Karoo area of the Western Cape, South Africa near Beaufort West. This semi-desert area covers an area of 750 square kilometres (290 sq mi). [1] The Nuweveld portion of the Great Escarpment runs through the Park.
Table Mountain National Park, previously known as the Cape Peninsula National Park, is a national park in Cape Town, South Africa, proclaimed on 29 May 1998, for the purpose of protecting the natural environment of the Table Mountain chain, and in particular the rare fynbos vegetation.
Mokala National Park is a reserve established in the Plooysburg area south-west of Kimberley in the Northern Cape, South Africa on 19 June 2007. [1] The size of the park is 26,485 hectares. Mokala is the Setswana name for the magnificent camel thorn, a tree species typical of the arid western interior and common in the area. There is currently ...
Namaqua National Park is a South African national park situated on the edge of the Atlantic coast of Namaqualand (an area covering 440,000 km 2 located within the semi-desert Succulent Karoo biome). [ 2 ] [ 3 ] This biome is a biodiversity hotspot with the largest concentration of succulent plants in the world. [ 3 ]