Central Kalahari Game Reserve

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The Central Kalahari Game Reserve is a 1,961 based game reserve in the Kalahari in Botswana .

landscape

The park covers an area of ​​52,800 km², making it the world's second largest game reserve. The land is mostly flat, with bushes, grass, sand dunes, and large trees. Many of the rivers are petrified to form salt flats. Four petrified rivers traverse the reserve and the Deception Valley, which began to form 16,000 years ago.

Animals

In the park animals live like giraffe , hyena , warthogs , cheetahs , wild dogs , leopards , lions , wildebeest , eland , gemsbok , kudu and red hartebeest .

Residents

The San inhabited the area for a long time, roaming the area as nomadic hunters. 5000 Basarwa, Gana, Gwi and Tsila (and their neighbors, the Bakgalagadi) lived peacefully in the reserve. In the early 1980s, diamonds were discovered on the reserve. The San were soon told by government officials that they would have to leave the reservation because of the diamonds they had discovered. In three major evictions in 1997, 2002 and 2005, the San were evicted from the reserve. From then on they lived in resettlement camps outside the reserve. In a legal battle lasting for years, the most expensive in the history of the country, the people were finally granted the right to return to their ancestral land in 2006 (see also: Unity Dow ).

However, the Botswana government made it difficult for the San to access clean water, so they had to travel long distances to get drinking water. After further negotiations, in January 2011 they were finally granted the right to water in a historic judgment.

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  1. ↑ Information about the San at www.survivalinternational.de
  2. ↑ Bushmen win in court in the dispute over water on www.survivalinternational.de

Coordinates: 21 ° 53 '  S , 23 ° 45'  E