Kruger National Park

Archived News

Media Release: Explore Parque Nacional Do Limpopo In Your 4x4 And Make An Impact!

Date: 2008-07-10

For the first time 4x4 enthusiasts have the opportunity to explore a National Park and at the same time participate in a census that will have a meaningful impact on the knowledge base of the Park.

Basic Environmental Assessment For Singita Roads In KNP

Date: 2008-07-08

Mazda Wildlife Fund Donates R100 000 To Counter Poaching

Date: 2008-06-30

The Mazda Wildlife Fund once again supported the annual Sunset Serenade, which took place from 18 – 22 June. The event, staged at the Kruger National Park, aimed to highlight the importance and prominent work of the Honorary Rangers of the Counter Poaching and Ranger Support Services Unit of South African National Parks.

Media Release: British American Tobacco SA Butts In To Help Conserve The Kruger National Park

Date: 2008-06-23

The Kruger National Park’s Managing Executive Dr Bandile Mkhize accepted a donation of 195 MaxiBin cigarette disposal bins today (Monday June 23, 2008) from British American Tobacco (BAT) South Africa.

Media Release: Sanparks Re-Introduces Advanced Bookings For Day Visits To Kruger National Park

Date: 2008-06-18

Day visitors to the Kruger National Park will again be able to book ahead of time to secure their entrance to South Africa’s most well known national park.

West Rand Honorary Rangers Birding Weekend Booking Opens 18 June, 2008

Date: 2008-06-18

Attention all birders! Booking opens on 18 June 2008 for the ever popular Kruger Park Birding Weekend which will be hosted by West Rand Honorary Rangers at the end of January / beginning February 2009.

Media Release: Kruger National Park Anniversary Celebrated In Style

Date: 2008-06-17

The Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism, Mr Marthinus van Schalkwyk joined various other dignitaries and more than a thousand people to celebrate the Kruger National Park’s 110th Anniversary in Skukuza today (Saturday June 14, 2008).

Media Release: Kruger National Park Decade-By-Decade History

Date: 2008-06-17

Louis Trichardt was the first white Voortrekker to trek through the present-day Kruger Park to Delagoa Bay (Maputo) in Mozambique. Most of his party succumbed to malaria on this journey.

Media Release: KNP Commissions Birthday Song

Date: 2008-06-09

The organisers of the Kruger National Park’s 110th Anniversary Celebration have commissioned a composer to write a song to commemorate this special occasion as part of the planned celebrations.

Media Release: Crocodile Deaths Puzzle Ecologists

Date: 2008-06-04

A think tank of veterinary surgeons, scientists, researchers, rangers and managers met in Skukuza in the Kruger National Park (KNP) yesterday (Tuesday June 3, 2008) to discuss the discovery of at least 30 of crocodile carcasses found in the Olifants River last week.

KNP Celebrates Birthday With Communities

Date: 2008-06-03

“In the immortal words of that well known song of the 1970s and 1980s by Cool and the Gang, let’s now celebrate and have a good time.”

Gold Rush in Kruger

Date: 2008-06-03

People might be forgiven if they thought the Klondyk-era of the Lowveld Gold Rush had returned as cold coin aficionados from all over South Africa rushed to Skukuza in the Kruger National Park this Saturday (May 31, 2008).

Environmental Basic Assessment for the proposed upgrade of the Skukuza Conference Facility

Date: 2008-06-02

SANParks, Kruger National Park (KNP), has identified the need to upgrade the conference facility in Skukuza to a commercially-operated Conference Facility in the Skukuza Rest Camp.

Media Release: Knp Visitors Will Strike Gold This Saturday!

Date: 2008-05-29

Visitors to the Kruger National Park this Saturday (May 31, 2008) will strike gold when they enter the park through any one of the 10 entrance gates.

Media Release: Canoe the Rio Elefantes Trail

Date: 2008-05-28

The Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park boasts yet another sought after adventure experience. At Indaba in Durban earlier this month Transfrontier Parks Destinations announced the introduction of their Rio Elefantes Canoeing Trail in Mozambique’s Parque Nacional do Limpopo and posed the question “where else in Southern Africa can you paddle a major river between its confluences with two other major rivers"?

Clearing of Lantana Camara from Malalane area of KNP

Date: 2008-05-26

Between the 02 and 04 May 2008 a work-party of Honorary Rangers (HRs) was put together to clear Lantana Camara in the Malalane area of the KNP.

Media Release: KNP 110 Birthday Celebrations poised to kick off!

Date: 2008-05-23

A three-week long celebration of the Kruger National Park’s (KNP) 110th Birthday will kick off on Monday next week (Monday May 26, 2008) and will climax with the main event on Saturday June 14, 2008.

KNP Prepares to Celebrate 110 Years of Successful Conservation!

Date: 2008-05-22

Plans are being finalized, food is being prepared, speeches are being written, cultural dancers are practicing and the final touches are being done in expectation of the Kruger National Park’s (KNP) three week long celebration of 110 years of successful conservation.

Media Release: KNP Rangers demonstrate their skills

Date: 2008-05-22

The Kruger National Park Rangers were out in the field today (Thursday May 22, 2008) near Malelane Entrance Gate in the extreme South of the park, where they celebrated their Ranger’s Day by demonstrating what they do best which is to combat poaching and to maintain the integrity of the park.

Media Release: Tourist Roads Closed for Ranger Demonstration

Date: 2008-05-19

Three tourist roads in the Malelane Entrance Gate/Berg en Dal Rest Camp area of the Kruger National Park (KNP) will be temporarily closed on Thursday, May 22, 2008 to ensure visitor safety during a ranger demonstration from KNP Entrance Gate opening time (06:00) until the end of the demonstration at 11:00.

Media Release: Archaeological Research of the Ngotsomouth Outpost of Steinaecker’s Horse in the KNP (PDF)

Date: 2008-05-15

From 3-16 August 2008 an archaeological excursion will again be conducted at one of the outposts of the Steinaecker’s Horse unit in the Kruger National Park.

Media Release: KNP Tourist Road Temporarily Closed for Maintenance

Date: 2008-05-05

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.

Media Release: Sighting Boards Make Game Spotting Easier

Date: 2008-04-30

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.

Media Release: KNP Elephant Competition Identifies 5 More Tuskers

Date: 2008-04-29

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.

Media Release: Wild Dog Hotline a Huge Success

Date: 2008-04-28

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).

Media Release: Fire Science in the Kruger National Park

Date: 2008-04-28

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.

Media Release: Rhinos and Termites Contribute to Biodiversity

Date: 2008-04-28

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.

Media Release: Elephant Research Features at Skukuza Meeting

Date: 2008-04-28

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.

Media Release: Science Tackles Algal Bloom Problem

Date: 2008-04-28

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.

High Traffic Volumes Expected on N4 Toll Road

Date: 2008-04-25

Many travellers are expected to travel to Mpumalanga and Mozambique, and again back to Gauteng over the next two long weekends.

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