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Book Author Seeks Lion Info
Krugerpark News Information: Writer Tim Condon is currently researching a book that will cover the history of lions from the early 1800s until the present day, in the ‘Land of the Zulu’ or KwaZulu-Natal...
Another Win For South Africa At International Tourism Exchange In Berlin
Krugerpark News Information: Fair Trade in Tourism South Africa has won the “TO DO!” prize for socially responsible tourism. The TO DO! Contest for Socially Responsible Tourism...
All Those Little White Butterflies
Krugerpark News Information: Visitors to the Kruger National Park travelling through Gauteng, Mpumalanga and Limpopo recently, must have noticed that they were in the company of thousands of little white butterflies...
Africa To Lose All Its Acacias
Krugerpark News Information: For more than two and a half centuries Africa has been home to acacia trees, but now nine people have decided for the entire world that only Australia can lay claim to the botanical name Acacia...
Workshop Broadens Science Teachers’ Horizons
Krugerpark News Information: Thirteen teachers from schools in and around Phalaborwa met at Letaba Camp in the Kruger National Park (KNP) on February 18, 2006 to take part in the first Educator Support Workshop...
Wild Elephants Respond To Vibrations In The Earth
Krugerpark News Information: Elephants will respond to signals transmitted through the earth without a sound whispering through the air. This has been shown by a team of scientists working at a waterhole in Etosha, Namibia...
Study To Investigate Owl Deaths On Toll Road
Krugerpark News Information: Last year 90 owls of at least five species were killed along the N1N4 toll highway in the Pretoria North area, and a research project is now underway to look at how many owls...
Small Ambassadors Promote The Big Five
Krugerpark News Information: Did you know the South African Post Office prints about 380 million postage stamps a year?  The Post Office chose the Kruger National Park as the place to launch its new Big Five postage stamps...
Skukuza Cricket Pitch Hosts International Match
Krugerpark News Information: For the fifth year running, boys from Devon toured South Africa to meet their cricket counterparts on the fields of Cape Town and Skukuza in the Kruger National Park...
Seeds Efficient Hitch-Hikers
Krugerpark News Information: Just returned from a walk to have a look at the effect of water run-off after recent heavy rain. Waterfalls are running after a few dry years. Rivers are full and dams overflowing...
Satellites May Help Pilots Avoid Storms
Krugerpark News Information: Pilots may soon be able to avoid rain and turbulence if a new method of analysing satellite data takes off. Developed by scientists at the University of Alabama at Huntsville, NASA...
Rainfall Affects The Survival Of Wild Dog Pups
Krugerpark News Information: ew research on the wild dog population in the Kruger National Park has revealed that the amount of rain that falls before wild dogs give birth to pups is an important factor...
Radar Equipment To Be Installed At Skukuza
Krugerpark News Information: Skukuza has been identified by the South African Weather Service as one of three priority locations in the country for a sophisticated radar apparatus that will help the weather service...
Ocean Going Students Dock In Kruger
Krugerpark News Information: When they docked in Cape Town, students on the “Semester at Sea” programme opted to either spend time in the mother city or in Kruger. These students from all over the United States...
New Guidebook Reveals Limpopo’s Birding Wonders
Krugerpark News Information: The Limpopo Province has 10 internationally recognised Important Bird Areas, and the soon-to-be-released Great Limpopo Birding Route Self Drive Guidebook provides birders...
More Black South Africans Visit SANParks
Krugerpark News Information: Latest tourism figures have shown that the number of black South Africans visiting national parks operated by SANParks has increased across the board to 19,7 percent...
Minister Highlights Tourism Grading Councils Successes
Krugerpark News Information: Tourism minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk has said that government’s identification of tourism as a sector of the economy earmarked for priority intervention is “a sincere compliment...
Minister Challenges Tourism Industry
Krugerpark News Information: Tourism minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk has issued a challenge to the tourism training industry and backed it up with R7.5 million in funding...
KZN Cotton Farmers At Centre Of GM Debate
Krugerpark News Information: The small-scale cotton farmers of the Makhatini Flats in KwaZulu-Natal are being used as examples by both seed giant Monsanto and green organisations to present arguments...
Department Begins Campaign To Fight Illegal Guiding
Krugerpark News Information: For the last 16 years, the world has celebrated International Tourist Guides Day on February 21. This year South Africa had the theme “Fighting against Illegal Tourist Guiding...