Everything about Central Kalahari Game Reserve totally explained
Central Kalahari Game Reserve is an extensive
national park in the
Kalahari desert of
Botswana. Established in
1961 it covers an area of 52,800 km² making it the second largest game reserve in the world.
The park contains wildlife such as
giraffe,
brown hyena,
warthog,
cheetah,
wild dog,
leopard,
lion,
blue wildebeest,
eland,
gemsbok,
kudu and red
hartebeest.
The land is mostly flat, and gently undulating covered with bush and grasses covering the
sand dunes, and areas of larger trees. Many of the river valleys are
fossilized with salt pans. Four fossilized rivers
meander through the reserve including Deception Valley which began to form around 16,000 years ago .
The
Basarwa or
San have inhabited the lands for thousands of years since they roamed the area as nomadic hunters.
However, since the mid-1990s the Botswanan government has tried to relocate the Bushmen from the reserve claiming it's a drain on financial resources despite revenues increasing by tourism to the reserve. In
1997, three quarters of the entire San population were relocated from the reserve, and in October 2005 the government had resumed the forced relocation into resettlement camps outside of the park leaving only about 250 permanent occupiers .
Haina Safari Lodge is located near the Central Kalahari Game Reserve.
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