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Encyclopedia > Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife

Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife is a governmental organisation responsible for maintaining wilderness areas and public nature reserves in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa. Their headquarters is in Queen Elizabeth Park situated on the northern slopes of Pietermaritzburg the KwaZulu-Natal provincial capital. Prior to 1994, it was known as the Natal Parks Board. Capital Pietermaritzburg Largest city Durban Area  - Total Ranked 7th 92,100 km² Premier Sbu Ndebele (ANC) Population   - 2001   - 1996   - Density Ranked 1st 9,426,019 8,417,021 102/km² (2001) Languages isiZulu (80. ... Location of Pietermaritzburg in KwaZulu-Natal province Pietermaritzburg is the capital of KwaZulu-Natal Province in South Africa. ... 1994 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ...


Some Major Parks Managed by Ezemvelo

The organisation manages over 57 parks in total. A map can be found here. The Greater St. ... Hluhluwe-Umfolozi Game Reserve, located 280 km north of Durban, is the oldest proclaimed park in Africa. ... Maloti-Drakensberg Transfrontier Conservation Area was established on 11 June 2001 by linking the Sehlaba-Thebe National Park in the Kingdom of Lesotho and the Natal Drakensberg Park in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. ... Lubombo Transfrontier Conservation Area born out of the peace park’s vision to establish a network of transfrontier conservation areas in Africa. ... Mkuze Game Reserve (also spelt Mkhuze) was proclaimed a protected area on 15th February 1912. ... Oribi Gorge is situated along the spectacular forest-cloaked ravine of the Mzimkulwana river just west of Port Shepstone which itself is 120km south of Durban. ... Itala Game Reserve, 290 km² of rugged, mountainous thornveld in northern KwaZulu-Natal, about 400 km north of Durban. ... Phinda Resource Reserve is a 170 km² private game reserve situated in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa between the Mkuze Game Reserve and the Greater St. ...


Among other things, Ezemvelo plays a key role in conserving the white and black rhinoceros. Genera Ceratotherium Dicerorhinus Diceros Rhinoceros Coelodonta (extinct) A rhinoceros (commonly called a rhino for short) is any of five surviving species of odd-toed ungulate in the family Rhinocerotidae. ...


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