Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park – the “Place of Thirst” – straddles part of South Africa’s northern border with Botswana. Two parks previously known as the Kalahari Gemsbok National Park in South Africa and the Gemsbok National Park in Botswana were joined to create this vast wildlife area which covers around 38,000 square kilometres (15,000 sq mi).
The park’s emblem is the gemsbok, a large, imposing desert antelope for which the Park is famous, along with the black-maned Kalahari lions, migrating herds of wildebeest and springbok, red hartebeest and eland, as well as many birds of prey.
Originally there were three rest camps, Twee Rivieren, Nossob Rest Camp and Mata Mata Rest Camp, but more recently a number of wilderness camps were added.
Red-necked Buzzard in Kgalagadi
After a Red-necked Buzzard was recently identified for the first time within the Southern African subregion (during 2014 in woodlands at the northern end of Buffalo Reserve – Bwabwata National Park – in the Caprivi Strip of Namibia), old records were re-examined by birdwatchers, and a picture was found of the earliest sighting of a Red-necked Buzzard in the subregion namely in August of 2001 in Kgalagadi!
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