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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 reserve is also, if not equally, concerned ...
The Daan Viljoen Game Reserve is a game reserve near Windhoek, situated in the hill area of Khomas Hochland. [23] Over 200 species are found here, typical of the Namibian highlands, including Hartmann's mountain zebra , blue wildebeest , kudu , gemsbok , springbok , impala , rockrunner , white-tailed shrike , Monteiro's hornbill , Bradfield's ...
Majete Wildlife Reserve — in the southwest of Malawi, with an area of 691 km 2; Mwabvi Wildlife Reserve — the smallest of the parks, at 350 km 2, Mwabvi was adopted by Project African Wilderness in 2007 (PAW is a charitable organisation based in Malawi and the UK)
Windy Gyle is a mountain in the Cheviot Hills range, on the border between England and Scotland. [4] Like the other hills in the area, it is rounded and grass-covered. It is the highest summit on the border, although not the highest point as the border is higher where it runs along the western shoulder of The Cheviot, at a point called Cairn Hill West Top, or Hangingstone Hill. [5]
The south of the reserve was designated as Debasien Animal Sanctuary in 1958. [2] A government-led project to convert land just south of the Greek River for agriculture threatened the viability of wildlife conservation in the whole area. [3] In 1964 the area was expanded northward and renamed Pian-Upe Game Reserve. [1]
The Mahango Game Park (also known as the Mahango Game Reserve [1]) is a protected area in Namibia within Bwabwata National Park. [2] It is situated at the country's eastern border with Botswana in the flood plains of the Okavango River basin, close to the Popa Falls on the river. The Caprivi Strip encloses the western part of the park. [3]
Gbele Resource Centre is the only wildlife reserve where the Rufous-rumped lark is known to occur and breed. It is also one of only three reserves where the Yellow-billed oxpecker is recorded. Other bird species include black-headed weaver , Dorst's cisticola , Gambaga flycatcher , northern carmine bee-eater , red-throated bee-eater , spotted ...
In 1985, the area covered by both the conservation park and the adjoining Bool Lagoon Game Reserve was added under the name "Bool and Hacks Lagoons" to the List of Wetlands of International Importance maintained by the Ramsar Convention. [6]: 1 [8] Land in sections 373, 379, 382 and 383 was added to the conservation park on 27 August 1992. [9]