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The Maloti-Drakensberg Park is a World Heritage Site, established on 11 June 2001 by linking the Sehlabathebe National Park in the Kingdom of Lesotho and the uKhahlamba Drakensberg Park in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. [1] The highest peak is Thaba Ntlenyana rising to 3,482 metres.
The QwaQwa National Park area is the historical home of the Bakoena and the Batlokoa people. [1] QwaQwa was established as a park in 1992 during South Africa's transition to democracy. The goal of the park’s creation was to involve the local community in national projects.The park was reincorporated into the Free State province in 1994. The ...
The Sehlabathebe National Park is located in the Maloti Mountains in Qacha's Nek District, Lesotho and is part of the Maloti-Drakensberg World Heritage Site.The park was first established on 8 May 1969 and since then, is recognised as important in terms of biological diversity and cultural heritage. [2]
The Lesotho Highlands are formed by the Drakensberg [1] and Maloti mountain ranges in the east ... The Drakensberg Rockjumper is an endemic bird species of the ...
The Maloti-Drakensberg Park is a transnational property composed of the uKhahlamba Drakensberg National Park in South Africa and the Sehlathebe National Park in Lesotho. The site has exceptional natural beauty in its soaring basaltic buttresses, incisive dramatic cutbacks, and golden sandstone ramparts as well as visually spectacular sculptured ...
Royal Natal National Park; Burman Bush; iSimangaliso Wetland Park (part of the Lubombo Transfrontier Conservation Area) Mkuze Game Reserve; Hluhluwe-Umfolozi Game Reserve – the oldest national park in Africa. Itala Game Reserve; Phinda Resource Reserve; uKhahlamba Drakensberg Park (part of the Maloti-Drakensberg Transfrontier Conservation ...
The following birds can be found in the reserve: wattled crane, grey crowned crane, blue crane, white-winged flufftail, African grass owl, yellow-breasted pipit, secretarybird, ground woodpecker, buff-streaked chat, sentinel rock-thrush, Drakensberg rockjumper, Cape vulture, bearded vulture, and pale-headed grass singer.
The site comprises the uKhahlamba-Drakensberg Park (pictured), originally listed independently in 2000, and the Sehlabathebe National Park in Lesotho, that was added in 2013. The area is known for its scenic beauty with basalt rock formations, river gorges, and grasslands. It is rich in biodiversity, in particular in numerous plant and bird ...