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The Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park was declared in 2000, formalising an ecological entity that was already there. Tourists loved it, but this inspiring wilderness has given rise to something more. Now there are ideas of linking this gigantic conservation areas to others nearby. Desert ecology and tourism will be the winners.
When the first ideas around transfrontier parks linking South Africa with its neighbours were brainstormed, one already existed.
Decades before the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park came into existence, South Africa’s Kalahari Gemsbok National Park and the Gemsbok National Park in Botswana had been united in all but name. These neighbours were separated by nothing but an unmarked international border – an ecological unit of some 37 000 square kilometres; a semi-desert wilderness of blonde grass, red dunes, enormous peace and space. Read the rest of this entry »