Nrichtersveld national park history books

I love visiting the wilderness, hiking the trails, and generally enjoying the geology and history. Throughout the year, the national park offers exciting guided tours through the wild forest as well as. Forest history museum, forest playground and others are other highlights. Aisrichtersveld transfrontier park is a peace park straddling the border between south africa and namibia. Sanparks was formed in 1926, and currently manages 19 parks consisting of 3,751,1 hectares 37,511. The richtersveld national park is only accessible by means of a 4x4 vehicle, but vehicles with high clearances such as combis and ldvs do travel in the park. This was the addo bush, where in 1919, he was employed to eliminate the elephants and to resolve, for all time the contest between agriculturalist and game animals. One of the main features of the combined park is the worlds second largest canyon the fish river canyon.

Where their protection purpose allows, national parks also serve purposes of scientific environmental observation, education in natural history, and public. The park system turns 100 next year, and remains woefully underfunded. I liked the story of how the nps was born and how its developed through the years. The richtersveld has both natural and cultural criteria that make it unique. A behindthescenes history shedding light on the early days of. The richtersveld national park is a rugged, desolate and in parts hauntingly beautiful mountain desert set in a great loop of the orange river. In other words, theres more to the richtersvled than first meets the eye. Ais hot springs game park and the south african richtersveld national park. At sendelingsdrift, on the south african side, a pontoon has been established to ferry people and vehicles across the orange river. An air of desolation and abandonment characterise the richtersveld. Driving in the park at night is also not permitted. The pontoon has a carrying capacity of a 32seater bus or two fully loaded double cab 4x4 vehicles.

Addo elephant park history addo elephant national park. He has collaborated on all of ken burnss films for twenty years as a writer, producer, and consultant. The organic act of 1916 created the national park service to conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects and wildlife therein, and to provide for the. Richtersveld national parkrichtersveldorange river rafting. The community conservancy is bordered to the north by the richtersveld national park managed by the richtersveld community and the south african national parks the nababiep provincial nature reserve and designated community grazing areas that allow the nama people to continue with their lifestyle. Ken burns, director and producer of the national parks, founded.

From urban national parks to natured cities in the global south. A truly arid, desert landscape, with illusions conjured up by the heat and dust, making you think that you are seeing things, is part of what makes this place so unique and so utterly entchanting. Most of the south african part of the park forms part of the buffer zone of the richtersveld cultural and botanical landscape world heritage site, which measures 5,920 square kilometres. Edited by bernhard gissibl, sabine hohler and patrick kupper. South african national parks sanparks is the body responsible for managing south africas national parks.