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South African game reserves face hard times as Covid halts tourism

South African game reserves face hard times as Covid halts tourism

January 12, 2021January 11, 2021 Supertrooper Leave a comment

Impala run through the thorn bush, ibis fly above the lake and lightning forks over the horizon as a storm rolls in from the Drakensberg mountains. The visitors driven across the 10,000 or more hectares of the Nambiti game reserve in South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province see what they think is an unchanged, and unchanging natural […]

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Record number of African rhinos killed in 2015

Record number of African rhinos killed in 2015

March 20, 2016December 23, 2019 Supertrooper 4 Comments

A record number of rhinos were killed by poachers across Africa last year, driven by demand in the far east for their horn. The number slaughtered in their heartland in South Africa, which has four-fifths of the continent’s rhino, dipped for the first time since the crisis exploded nearly a decade ago. But increases in […]

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Guest Blog on SouthAfrica.Net

Guest Blog on SouthAfrica.Net

October 7, 2012December 22, 2019 Morkel Erasmus Leave a comment

I was recently asked to do a guest blog post on some of our National Parks and Game Reserves for the official South African Tourism Blog (located at www.southafrica.net). You can read the short essay (with images) here Cheers Morkel Erasmus

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