Try to find a game reserve or other open sanctuary for animals/birds/species that begins with the last letter of your name. Post by 11:59pm on 3/19.
Parks & Recreation Mgt – HMGT 4988
Spring 2015
Try to find a game reserve or other open sanctuary for animals/birds/species that begins with the last letter of your name. Post by 11:59pm on 3/19.
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The game reserve I have chosen is called Golden Gate Highlands National Park located in South Africa. Although they do not have the “big five” animals (buffalo, elephant, leopard, lion and the rhino) to view, they have other animals. Visitors can enjoy the black wildebeest, white tail, Burchell’s zebras, blesbok, mountain reedbuck and oribi. The park is great for scenery views, hiking and birding destinations. The highland grassland with patches of Afromontane forest in gorges and ravines protects the park from very cold conditions and fires. Golden Gate Highlands is the only grassland national park in South Africa with 60 different species of grasses found. http://www.sanparks.co.za/parks/golden_gate/
Ez Zeraf Game Reserve
This reserve is found in South Sudan is about 9,700 Km2 and is located in swamp lands and seasonally flooded grasslands. The area was designated a protected area in 1939. The land features Nile Lechwe which is a species of antelope they stand at 35-39 in and weigh 150-180 lb. Sitatunga which is also another species of antelope and home to the Hippopotamus. The area is internationally important for its large mammal concentrations.
http://www.protectedplanet.net/zeraf-game-reserve
Amakhala Game Reserve
The Amakhala it’s located in the malaria free eastern cape of South Africa. This Game Reserve used to be a conservation venue in 1999. Then, the members of Amakhala decided to make it a game reserve in 2011. This game reserve is a unique place because it allows animals to be where they once lived free; by doing this they are maintaining their heritage. The Amakhala offers people the “Big 5 Safari”, where you can find a wide variety of wild animals. Some common animals are Elephant, Giraffe, Hippo, Buffalo, Zebra, Wildebeest, White Rhino, Lion, and Hyena. Also, a lot of vegetation, and a river cruise on the Bushman’s river, where you could see animals like the Cape Clawless otter, and the Caracal cats. There are more than 260 bird species; some of these are African black ducks, darter, finfoot, marsh harrier, forest buzzards, and rock kestrel. There are also migratory birds from North Africa, and Europe, you can mostly find them in the months of November to April to be able to get the best view.
http://www.amakhala.co.za/portfolio
Gaborone game reserve
This reserve was located in Botswana, South Africa. It was established in 1988 by the Kalahari Conservation Society to give the Gaborone public an opportunity to view Botswana’s wildlife in a natural and accessible location. Although the reserve is only 5 sq km, it’s the third-busiest in the country and boasts wildebeest, elands, gemsboks, kudu, ostriches and warthogs. Also, the Gabarone Game Reserve has also grown in popularity as one of Botswana’s prime birding destinations. The birdlife, which includes kingfishers and hornbills, is particularly plentiful and easy to spot from observation areas. Moreover, the reserve also has a few picnic sites, a game hide and a small visitor-education centre.
Lower Zambezi
This game reserve is located by the Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe. Lower Zambezi is Zimbabwe’s equally wild Mana Pools National Park. This park has 3 habitats and covers a wide area but most animals are kepts in the bottom of the valley. Lower Zambezi is so beautiful that it is hard to know which to admire more, the scenery or the animals. The animals that are protected in this park are mainly baboons, vervet monkeys, leopards, lions, zebras, buffalo, hippos, and crocodiles. Beautiful birds such as kingfishers, lovebirds, parrots, and horn-bills.
Lowe Zambezi specialties include:
*Close encounters with big animals from a canoe or boat
*Bush walks and animal tracking
*Wading waterbuck and buffalo
*Tiger fishing
*Night game drives
*Elephant swimiming
Chitwan national park( game reserve)
The most famous and Nepal’s first national park. this ‘ World Heritage Nature Site’ declared by UNESCO is situated in the central development region covering an area of 932 sq. Chitwan National Park is the home to more than 500 Asian one-horned rhinoceros and Royal Bengal Tigers. This is also the home to around 600 plant species, 50 mammals, 526 birds and 49 amphibians and reptiles. For jungle safari, Royal Chitwan National park is famous. Here you will travel through open grassland and dense forest on elephant back and while doing this you will come across different wild animals including rhinos, different kind of deer’s, wild boars, and in rare cases, tigers. You will have a great opportunity to see many species of birds including water fowl, Brahminy ducks, pintails, bar-headed geese, cormorants, woodpeckers, hornbills, peacocks, peahens, floricans, red-headed trogons and many others.
Littlebredy village is located between 30 and 50 feet above sea-level. It is located in England. In that village there is a bird reserve that is called the Valley of Stones. In prehistoric times it was used as a source of building material for nearby constructions such as tombs and stone circles and within 4 miles are two thirds of all such structures in the county. Folklore attibutes the origin of the stones to have been two giants playing stone-throwing games, but they are the result of conditions at the end of the last ice age when freezing and thawing caused sandstone on surrounding hilltops to break up and slump downhill. The stones and the surrounding dry chalk valley provide habitats for a variety of flora and fauna including clustered bellflower, autumn gentian, lichens, bryophytes and the adonis blue butterfly and the area is designated a National Nature Reserve.
Loch Luna Game Reserve – Australia
“Within easy reach of Barmera and Overland Corner, this wetland reserve is good for camping and as a base for canoeing, boating and fishing. There are many creeks and shallow swamps to explore, home to large populations of waterfowl and other birdlife. Signposted access – dry weather only for conventional vehicles – is off the Sturt Hwy 14 km north-west of Barmera.”
http://www.exploreaustralia.net.au/South-Australia/Murray/Loch-Luna-Game-Reserve/Chambers-Creek-camping-area