scholarly journals The Kruger Park and other National Parks by R. J. Labuschagne. Da Gama, Johannesburg. - Wankie, the Story of a Great Game Reserve by Ted Davison. Books of Africa (Pty) Limited, Cape Town, 37s. 6d. (R3·75). - Game Ranger on Horseback by Nick Steele. Books of Africa, Cape Town, 30s. (R3). - Life with Daktari, Two Vets in East Africa by Susanne Hart. Bles/Collins, 36s.

Oryx ◽  
1969 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-130
Author(s):  
C. R. S. Pitman
Keyword(s):  
East Africa ◽  
National Parks ◽  
Cape Town ◽  
Game Reserve ◽  
Kruger Park ◽  
Great Game

scholarly journals Present day status and future of nature conservation in the Republic of Malawi

Koedoe ◽  
1977 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
D.G. Anstey Anstey ◽  
A.J. Hall-Martin Hall-Martin
Keyword(s):  
Nature Conservation ◽  
National Parks ◽  
Wildlife Conservation ◽  
Colonial Administration ◽  
Tsetse Control ◽  
Benign Neglect ◽  
Game Reserve ◽  
The Status ◽  
Game Fish ◽  
The Republic

When Malawi (formerly Nyasaland) became independent in 1964 the status and future of its game reserves were in jeopardy. The former administration had adopted a policy of benign neglect towards the country's wildlife areas (Anon 1963), and the remnants of the Department of Game, Fish and Tsetse Control had been absorbed by the Forestry Department in 1963. Fortunately the Life President of Malawi, Dr H Kamuzu Banda, took a strong interest in wildlife conservation and it was only his personal intervention, and the advent of independence, that saved the former Lengwe Game Reserve from deproclamation (Hayes 1967) as planned by the colonial administration. With the Life President's encouragement and the dedicated efforts of the staff responsible for wildlife, the tide which had been running strongly against nature conservation was turned, culminating in the establishment of a separate Department of National Parks and Wildlife only a decade after independence.

The Future of Animal Wildlife and Its Habitat in Botswana

1989 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Richard Mordi
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
National Parks ◽  
Wildlife Management ◽  
National Park ◽  
Gross National Product ◽  
Tourist Industry ◽  
Land Area ◽  
Migration Routes ◽  
Game Reserve ◽  
Wildlife Management Areas

To conserve its wildlife, Botswana has set aside more than 17% of its total land area as game reserves, national parks, and wildlife management areas. Despite this generous allocation to wildlife, the fauna of the country is declining in both absolute numbers and species diversity. Lack of permanent water-sources in some game reserves, obstruction of fauna migration routes by cattle fences, and a poorly-developed tourist industry, are partly responsible for this decline.In a developing country such as Botswana, tourism should yield sufficient funds for the maintenance of game reserves and national parks. But currently the tourist industry accounts for less than 2% of the gross national product. Unless the industry is encouraged to flourish and expand into dormant reserves such as the Gemsbok National Park and Mabuasehube Game Reserve, animals in those sanctuaries are likely to be driven by drought into South Africa.

scholarly journals Classification, description and mapping of the vegetation in Khutse Game Reserve, Botswana

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 8-23
Author(s):  
T Lori
Keyword(s):  
Plant Species ◽  
National Parks ◽  
Plant Communities ◽  
Plant Species Richness ◽  
Management Plan ◽  
Plant Ecology ◽  
Herbaceous Plants ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Game Reserve ◽  
Grewia Flava

There is currently no detailed classification and description of plant communities in Khutse Game Reserve (KGR), Botswana, using phytosociological techniques. The main aim of this study was to classify and describe plant communities in KGR. Classification and description of plant communities will help in understanding the plant ecology of KGR. Braun-Blanquet sampling method was applied in 91 stratified random relevés. Nine plant communities were identified and classified using Modified TWINSPAN which is contained in JUICE program. The results showed that there was a statistically significant difference in percentage cover of herbaceous plants between the different plant communities. Schmidtia pappophoroides-Stipagrostis uniplumis and Heliotropium lineare-Enneapogon desvauxii communities had higher cover (%) of herbaceous plants than other communities. Catophractes alexandri-Stipagrostis uniplumis community had the highest cover (%) of shrubs. There was no statistically significant difference in plant species diversity (Shannon-Wienner Index) and species evenness between plant communities, but there was a statistically significant difference in plant species richness between the different plant communities. Dichrostachys cinerea-Grewia flava community, Senegalia mellifera subsp. detinens-Maytenus species community and Catophractes alexandri-Stipagrostis uniplumis community had lower number of species, whereas Vachellia luederitzii var. retinens-Grewia flava community had the highest number (46) of plant species. This study will help the Department of Wildlife and National Parks (DWNP) to develop an updated and informed Management Plan for the reserve, which takes cognizance of the plant ecology of the reserve.

scholarly journals Geotourism, Iconic Landforms and Island-Style Speciation Patterns in National Parks of East Africa

Geoheritage ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger N. Scoon
Keyword(s):  
East Africa ◽  
National Parks ◽  
Soda Lakes ◽  
Sedimentary Basins ◽  
World Heritage Site ◽  
Darwinian Evolution ◽  
Rift System ◽  
Free Standing ◽  
Albertine Rift ◽  
Northern Tanzania

Abstract Many of the national parks in East Africa are equally as famous for their iconic landforms as they are for their diversity and concentrations of fauna and flora. The newly formed Ngorongoro-Lengai Geopark in northern Tanzania is the first geopark to be established in the region, but there is remarkable potential for geotourism in the majority of the national parks. The most spectacular landforms have been shaped by the East African Rift System. Formation of the two major rifts in the region, the Albertine Rift (or western branch) and the Gregory Rift (or eastern branch), was accompanied, or in some cases preceded, by extensive alkaline volcanism. The rifting and volcanism are primarily Late Cenozoic phenomenon that dissected and overprinted the older regional plateaus. Rifting impacted the regional drainage and captured major rivers, including the Victoria Nile. Chains of ribbon lakes formed in the rift valleys. The Albertine Rift consists of a sequence of sedimentary basins with deep freshwater lakes, but the shallow soda lakes of the Gregory Rift are associated with mostly volcanic terrains. Plateau-style volcanic outpourings smoothed out the older land surfaces, created near-lunar landscapes in parts of the rift valley, and built up rift shoulders to tremendous elevations. Magma erupted from central conduits formed giant stratovolcanoes which reveal evidence of explosive, Plinian-style volcanic activity. East Africa includes some of the largest and best preserved calderas on Earth. The Ngorongoro Caldera is a world heritage site. The ice-capped peaks of the two largest volcanoes in the region, Kilimanjaro and Mount Kenya, are among the highest free-standing mountains on Earth. The region includes active volcanoes, several of which are potentially hazardous as they are located near urban centres. Examples include Longonot-Hells Gate (Kenya), Mount Meru (Tanzania) and Nyiragongo (Democratic Republic of Congo). East Africa is renowned for the unusual rapidity of Darwinian evolution during the past thirty million years, including evolution of primates and hominins, and it is not a coincidence that significant palaeoanthropological discoveries have been unearthed from the Oldupai Gorge and Laetoli sites in northern Tanzania. The evolutionary period coincides with the onset and persistence of rifting and volcanism. Speciation is following an island-style pattern in East Africa, despite the continental setting, as regional plateaus are being dissected by the ongoing rifting and volcanism into smaller and smaller geological terrains. This is illustrated by restriction of the endangered Mountain gorilla to regions where afromontane forests developed in rift-related uplands isolated by extensive savannah grasslands.

scholarly journals Another reptile translocation to a national park

Koedoe ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
W.R. Branch ◽  
H.H. Braack
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
East Africa ◽  
National Parks ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
National Park ◽  
Kruger National Park ◽  
Tree Bark ◽  
Conservation Areas ◽  
Diamond Mining ◽  
Reptile Species

On 4 May 1988 a sub-adult (50 mm snout-vent length, 42 mm tail) Jones' girdled lizard Cordylus tropidosternum jonesi was collected in a pile of wood being off-loaded at the new restcamp in the Karoo National Park, Beaufort West. The wood had been transported by lorry from the Kruger National Park. The specimen is deposited in the herpetological collection of the Port Elizabeth Museum (PEM R 4584). Jones' girdled lizard is a small, arboreal cordylid that shelters under tree bark and in hollow logs. It is common and widely-distributed in the Kruger National Park (Pienaar, Haacke & Jacobsen 1983, The Reptiles of the Kruger National Park, 3rd edition. Pretoria: National Parks Board) and adjacent lowveld, being replaced in northern Zimbabwe and East Africa by the nominate race. Hewitt & Power (1913, Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa 3: 147-176, 1913) reported a similar translocation of the species to Kimberley in association with timber brought to the diamond mining camps. One of us noted recently the ease and danger of the unwitting spread of commensal reptile species into conservation areas (Branch 1978, Koedoe 30: 165), and this is confirmed by this additional example. We recommend that should similar shipments of wood be considered essential, then they be fumigated to prevent the translocation of other alien organisms that may potentially have more dangerous consequences.

scholarly journals White Rhinos Return to Rhodesia

Oryx ◽  
1977 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. N. S. Tomlinson
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
National Parks ◽  
Graduate Degree ◽  
Post Graduate ◽  
Game Reserve ◽  
The Future ◽  
White Rhino ◽  
The 1960S

By the end of the last century the white rhino was extinct in Rhodesia. But by the 1960s South Africa had a surplus in the Umfolozi Game Reserve, and since 1962 140 white rhinos have been taken to Rhodesian national parks, reserves and private ranches. In 1975 numbers were estimated at about 150 and the future of the species in Rhodesia should be secure. This paper, written in 1975, has not been brought up to date, as the author has left the Rhodesia National Parks Department, where he had access to records, on taking a post-graduate degree.

scholarly journals The Great Game: conservation in East Africa 1950–2016

Oryx ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 567-568 ◽  
Author(s):  
William M. Adams
Keyword(s):  
East Africa ◽  
Great Game
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