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. ...
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. ...