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Safari park. A safari park, sometimes known as a wildlife park, is a zoo -like commercial drive-in tourist attraction where visitors can drive their own vehicles or ride in vehicles provided by the facility to observe freely roaming animals. A safari park is larger than a zoo and smaller than a game reserve.
Kruger National Park (Afrikaans: [ˈkry.(j)ər]) is a South African National Park and one of the largest game reserves in Africa.It covers an area of 19,623 km 2 (7,576 sq mi) (almost The Size of Wales) in the provinces of Limpopo and Mpumalanga in northeastern South Africa, and extends 360 km (220 mi) from north to south and 65 km (40 mi) from east to west.
Two lions at Botlierskop game reserve. A game reserve (also known as a game park) is a large area of land where wild animals are hunted in a controlled way for sport. [ 1 ] If hunting is prohibited, a game reserve may be considered a nature reserve; however, the focus of a game reserve is specifically the animals (fauna), whereas a nature ...
Maasai Mara. Maasai Mara, also sometimes spelled Masai Mara and locally known simply as The Mara, is a large national game reserve in Narok, Kenya, contiguous with the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania. It is named in honour of the Maasai people, [ 2 ] the ancestral inhabitants of the area, who migrated to the area from the Nile Basin.
Coordinates: 24°48′02″S 31°32′29″E. Mala Mala is a game reserve located within the Sabi Sand Game Reserve, Mpumalanga province, South Africa. It is the largest and the oldest private big five game reserve in South Africa, It covers around 130 km 2 or 15 000 hectares of land. In Xitsonga, the name Malamala means Kudu, it was named so ...
A safari (səˈfɑːri; from Swahili safari 'journey' originally from Arabic Safar 'to journey') is an overland journey to observe wild animals, especially in East Africa. [ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ] The so-called "Big Five" game animals of Africa – lion, leopard, rhinoceros, elephant, and Cape buffalo – particularly form an important part of the ...
Say bye-bye to some bison. The Wilds safari park in Muskingum County recently moved 74 bison to the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation in South Dakota, the park announced in a July 9 press release ...
Area. 270 sq mi (700 km 2) Majete Wildlife Reserve is a nature reserve in southwestern Malawi, established as a protected area in 1955. The reserve's animal populations were decimated during the late 1970s and 1980s due to poaching and other human activities. Majete has been managed by African Parks since 2003, when the nonprofit conservation ...