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Saturday, January 1, 2011

AFRICA -2-

I'd like to tell you a bit more about the "Central Kalahari Game Reserve". (CKGR)
It covers an area of about 53,000 sq.km...is therefore twice the size of Massachusetts, or speaking in Austrian terms, it's a bit larger than the provinces of Burgenland, Carinthia, Lower Austria, Upper Austria and Salzburg, or more than 64% of all of Austria. The CKGR occupies 1/16th of all of Botswana's total land area.
All the varieties of Animals mentioned before find a home in this area which is mostly flat, gently undulating, with sand dunes covered with bush and grasses as well as some tall trees.
The Bushmen, also called "San" have roamed the land as nomadic hunters for thousands of years.
However, since the 1990s efforts were made by the Botswana Government to relocated the "San" outside the CKGR and the majority indeed left the Park. Recently, though, the Botswana Supreme court proclaimed this eviction as illegal, thereby allowing people to return to the CKGR.
(Information above and earlier was taken from "Wikipedia")

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