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Today, the Kalahari Gemsbok National Park forms Africa's first transfrontier park with the Gemsbok National Park in Botswana, facilitating the seasonal migration of wildlife in search of water, and the movement of free-roaming predators.
Located in south west Botswana, this reserve is typical of the arid type eco system comon in Botswana, such as the Kalahari. The wildlife here includes animals such as the big cats and plains game such as herbivores, as well as close to 200 bird species. Access is by road from Gabarone.
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Brief
History of Gemsbok National Park
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The Kalahari Gemsbok National Park is located between the borders of Namibia and Botswana. The park covers an area of a little less than 10,000 square kilometers. The Kalahari Gemsbok National Park and the adjacent Gemsbok National Park of Botswana together occupy as much as 36,000 square kilometers. Since there is no barrier separating the two parks, the animals move freely from park to park.
The two major rivers in the park, the Nossob and the Auob, flow on very rare occasions.
Of the three roads open to the public, two follow the courses of the Nossob and the Auob. extremity of the park, and at the Kalahari Tent Camp 3 km from Mata Mata.On the banks of the Auob River there are the ruins of old stone-walled cottages and kraals where families were settled before the First World War to guard boreholes drilled by the South African government. The course of the river was the original route selected by the military authorities for the South African invasion of German South-West Africa (Namibia today).
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