Mokala-Nationalpark

IUCN Category II - National Park

Kalahari landscape

The youngest national park in South Africa, the Mokala National Park, was inaugurated in June 2007. It is located about 75 kilometers southwest of Kimberley in the Northern Cape.

Mokala is a word from the Setswana ( Bantu language ), meaning camel thorn tree. These trees dominate a large part of the landscape.

The National Park is where the Kalahari desert merges into the Karoowüste. The south is dominated by the typical of the Karoo Dolerithügeln. Between the hills there are vast savannahs and scrubland. In the north, however, the Kalahari dominated.

The first 19,000 -acre park was expanded in recent years through acquisitions on 27,500 ha and extends today to the Riet River in the north. For visitors, there are within the national park accommodation, from simple campsites to luxury lodges.

Fauna

In addition to Roan Antelope, Sable Antelope, Wildebeest, Black Wildebeest, African buffalo, giraffe, eland, Greater Kudu, Oryx, Blässbock, Burchell's Zebra, Impala, Hartebeest, Springbok and Topi also wide and black rhino found in the national park habitat. The Mokala National Park is a refuge and breeding area for bovids TBC - free African buffalo. Also, caracal, aardvark, porcupine, Kapfuchs, aardwolf and bat-eared fox are Mokala National Park home. In the wetland near the mouth of the Vaal in the Orange River to rare species of birds have settled.

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