http://www.sanparks.org/about/news/ The latest news from SANParks. PHP RSS Feed Generator As per tradition initialized last year, please note that the 2008 Kudu Awards include what we view as a very significant role by members of the SANParks Forum and that is the nomination of staff members who appear to excel in their standards of service delivery and are prepared to go the extra mile to make our clients' experiences in various parks, as comfortable as possible. http://www.sanparks.org/about/news/default.php?id=935 2008-05-08 14:42:50 SANParks celebrated Earth Day 2008 on Tuesday 22 April by voluntarily shutting down all non-essential electricity for two hours and by signing a pledge and making a promise to help preserve the Earth and her natural resources. http://www.sanparks.org/about/news/default.php?id=933 2008-05-07 10:33:44 Gas supplier TotalGaz recently supplied replacement game sighting boards to all the camps in the Kruger National Park (KNP) in order to make game spotting easier for tourists. http://www.sanparks.org/about/news/2008/april/boards.php 2008-05-05 14:46:19 A section of one of the key tourist roads in the Kruger National Park (KNP), the H1-2 between Skukuza Rest Camp and Tshokwane Picnic Site will be closed for necessary maintenance on Wednesday May 7, 2008 by the park’s Technical Services. http://www.sanparks.org/about/news/default.php?id=932 2008-05-05 14:43:13 Visitors to Karoo National Park should note that there is currently no electricity or telephone communication at the Park due to a damaged electrical transformer. The problem is being attended to and a back-up generator is available for essential services. http://www.sanparks.org/about/news/default.php?id=931 2008-05-05 14:30:33 The only 100-Mile Trail Run in the country was hosted in Addo Elephant National Park in the Eastern Cape today and yesterday. Designed to test trail runners both mentally and physically, the trail tracks the mountains and valleys of the Park. Runners are challenged to run primarily on tracks within the park itself as well as some stretches of gravel roads. http://www.sanparks.org/about/news/2008/april/marathon.php 2008-05-05 14:26:22 Five more emerging tuskers have been identified thanks to the excellent quality of entries from the members of the public who took part in the 2007 Kruger National Park (KNP) Emerging Tuskers Competition from January to December last year. http://www.sanparks.org/about/news/2008/april/tuskers.php 2008-04-29 15:31:36 Fire is a tool used to rejuvenate savanna ecosystems and boost biodiversity, but in order to achieve the maximum benefit, it is important that the fire must not be too intense. This is yet another message that was heard at the 2008 Science Network Meeting, which is currently going on at Skukuza in the Kruger National Park. http://www.sanparks.org/about/news/2008/april/fire.php 2008-04-28 16:03:27 Janet Edwards, a Masters’ student at the University of Pretoria, thanked tourists who visited the Kruger National Park late last year for their help in making her wild dog research project possible. She reported on her research into wild dog genetics at SANParks’ 6th Annual Science Network meeting, held in Skukuza this week (21 – 25 April 2008). http://www.sanparks.org/about/news/2008/april/wilddogs.php 2008-04-28 16:03:20 No matter how big or small, creatures like white rhinos and termites are both key species to sustain and promote biodiversity. This is just one of the messages that delegates of the 2008 Science Network Meeting in Skukuza heard this week. http://www.sanparks.org/about/news/2008/april/termites.php 2008-04-28 14:34:36 Elephant researchers from all over the world presented their latest findings at the SANParks 6th Annual Science Network meeting in Skukuza on Tuesday 22 April 2008. Most of them are working in the Kruger National Park, but results from neighbouring private reserves, Northern Botswana and KwaZulu-Natal offered interesting comparisons and much food for thought for the more than 200 scientists at the meeting. http://www.sanparks.org/about/news/2008/april/elephants.php 2008-04-28 14:29:51 The Kruger National Park (KNP) has implemented a water sampling and monitoring regime to reduce the risk of further animal deaths caused by blue-green algal blooms in man-made dams in the park. http://www.sanparks.org/about/news/2008/april/bloom.php 2008-04-28 14:22:18 Many travellers are expected to travel to Mpumalanga and Mozambique, and again back to Gauteng over the next two long weekends. http://www.sanparks.org/about/news/default.php?id=921 2008-04-25 10:57:08 We need "business unusual" instead of "business as usual" to meet the future challenges of managing protected areas, was the message of Dr David Mabunda, CEO of SANParks, at the opening of the 6th Annual Science Networking Meeting of SANParks. More than 200 scientists from South Africa and around the world are gathered at Skukuza from 21 – 25 April 2008 for the event. http://www.sanparks.org/about/news/2008/april/science.php 2008-04-24 10:15:11 Please note that the Brandwag Hotel will be undergoing extensive upgrading between the 12th of January 2009 and the 31st of March 2010. http://www.sanparks.org/about/news/default.php?id=919 2008-04-18 10:34:00 The 18th of April marks a major highlight in the Northern Region’s Events Calendar. Since it’s inception last year, the regional awards function has grown from strength to strength and staff are encourgaed to excel and take pride in their work http://www.sanparks.org/about/news/2008/april/northern.php 2008-04-18 09:40:47 The Kruger National Park (KNP) will host scientists and researchers from around the world at the Sixth Annual SANParks Science Network Meeting which will take place from April 21 – 25, 2008 in the Gold Fields Auditorium at the Stevenson-Hamilton Knowledge Resource Centre in Skukuza. http://www.sanparks.org/about/news/default.php?id=917 2008-04-17 16:08:58 South African National Parks (SANParks), in association with Miss Earth South Africa, will be commemorating International Earth Day on Tuesday, 22 April 2008, as part of a global effort to highlight the issue of environmental conservation. http://www.sanparks.org/about/news/default.php?id=914 2008-04-17 15:19:12 SANParks is in search of a Web Content Editor! If you're passionate about our parks and excited by the thought of exploring them with words, if you're intrigued by the interaction between wildlife and the web, please read this job advertisement, and submit your CV! http://www.sanparks.org/about/news/2008/april/job.php 2008-04-16 15:43:52 Request for Expression of Interest Issued by South African National Parks in Respect of the proposed public private partnership projects for the Thesen Island development in the Knysna National Lake Area. http://www.sanparks.org/groups/tenders/2008/knysna/knysna.php 2008-04-16 15:26:20 Please take note that the Request for Proposal (RFP) and Information Memorandum documents will be available on this web page by 16h00 on Monday the 14th of April 2008. http://www.sanparks.org/groups/tenders/2008/canoe/default.php 2008-04-16 15:26:09 At a gala graduation ceremony in Upington, on 11 April 2008, three proud Kgalagadi staff members received their National Diploma’s in Tourism Management from the Vaal University of Technology, after four long years of dedicated hard work. http://www.sanparks.org/about/news/default.php?id=915 2008-04-16 15:00:43 Kruger National Park rangers and conservation management officials have started draining operations at Silolweni Dam near Tshokwane Picnic Site today (Tuesday April 15, 2008) to prevent algal poisoning of the wildlife in the area. http://www.sanparks.org/about/news/2008/april/dam.php 2008-04-15 14:53:23 The West Rand Honorary Rangers are proud to present their inaugral Beginner's Birding Course in Kruger National Park in October 2008. The event will be run along similar lines to the region's very successful Kruger Birding Weekend, which is held in January each year, and sponsored by SASOL. http://www.sanparks.org/about/news/2008/april/beginners_birding.php 2008-04-14 15:23:02 All road rejuvenation of tarred roads in the Karoo National Park is now complete and there will be no further closure of tourist roads. The 4x4 roads are still closed until further notice. http://www.sanparks.org/about/news/default.php?id=911 2008-04-14 11:50:13