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Access for Kruger National Park day visitors Festive Season

Kruger National Park day visitors during the 2021 Festive Season. The KNP has released a statement saying that daily quotas will once again apply at the entrance gates for day vis … “SANParks” – BingNews Click here to submit your News – free. Have you tried: Videos From PE? Quick Addo Fact: Spekboom is a …

Kruger National Park day visitors during the 2021 Festive Season. The KNP has released a statement saying that daily quotas will once again apply at the entrance gates for day vis …
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Quick Addo Fact: Spekboom is a superhero. Spekboom is prolific in the main game area of Addo and helps to sustain the Addo Elephant Park’s hearty population of over 600 elephants. The succulent spekboom regenerates quickly so the landscape doesn’t look devastated as it does in Kruger due to destructive elephant feeding. The plant is so good at converting carbon dioxide that ten hectares of spekboom would equal taking 25 cars off the road for a year. There are also places where the precious thicket opens up revealing wide plains of game with pinpricks of zebra in the distance and bigger blobs of eland. 79% of the park is covered in subtropical thicket and it is especially concentrated in the main game area. It may look uniform, but the subtropical thicket contains 112 different vegetation types and is comprised of 1 558 plant species – 322 of these species (20%) are endemic and found nowhere else.

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Kruger National Park celebrates World Ranger Day – Addo

SanParks lost 11 guardians in the past 12 months. Rangers often come into contact with poachers armed with high calibre rifles who do not hesitate to take human life. More than 80 rangers died on the … “SANParks” – BingNews Minister of Environment Barbara Creecy today released the latest rhino poaching statistics for South Africa, …

SanParks lost 11 guardians in the past 12 months. Rangers often come into contact with poachers armed with high calibre rifles who do not hesitate to take human life. More than 80 rangers died on the …
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Minister of Environment Barbara Creecy today released the latest rhino poaching statistics for South Africa, whilst also paying tribute to SANParks’ rangers, including those rangers who tragically …
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Quick Addo Fact: Not Just the Big Five – the Big Seven. Addo (as us locals call it!) is home to the Big Seven. This includes the Big Five of elephant, lion, buffalo, leopard, rhino plus great white sharks and southern right whales.

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_DSC3217.NEF – Addo National Park

_DSC3217.NEF | Addo National Park – Find Addo Accommodation. Image by Bird Brian Bar-throated Apalis Great Addo and Surrounds Accommodation Choices: Addo, Eastern Cape | Addo Village, Addo | Addo Elephant National Park, Eastern Cape | Greater Addo Route, Eastern Cape | Sunland, Addo | Colchester, Addo | Kirkwood, Addo | Paterson, Addo | Alicedale, …

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Quick Addo Fact: More than 600 elephants, 400 Cape buffaloes, over 48 endangered black rhinos (Diceros bicornis michaeli) as well as a variety of antelope species. Lion and spotted hyena have also recently been re-introduced to the area. The largest remaining population of the flightless dung beetle (Circellium bacchus) is located within the park.

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Wildlife safari at Addo National Elephant Park

Wildlife safari at Addo National Elephant Park | Addo National Park – Find Addo Accommodation. Image by EMUCrossCultural Great Addo and Surrounds Accommodation Choices: Addo, Eastern Cape | Addo Village, Addo | Addo Elephant National Park, Eastern Cape | Greater Addo Route, Eastern Cape | Sunland, Addo | Colchester, Addo | Kirkwood, Addo | Paterson, …

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Quick Addo Fact: Not Just the Big Five – the Big Seven. Addo (as us locals call it!) is home to the Big Seven. This includes the Big Five of elephant, lion, buffalo, leopard, rhino plus great white sharks and southern right whales.

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Helmet Guinea Fowl – Addo National Park

Helmet Guinea Fowl | Addo National Park – Find Addo Accommodation. Image by gail m tang . Great Addo and Surrounds Accommodation Choices: Addo, Eastern Cape | Addo Village, Addo | Addo Elephant National Park, Eastern Cape | Greater Addo Route, Eastern Cape | Sunland, Addo | Colchester, Addo | Kirkwood, Addo | Paterson, Addo …

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Quick Addo Fact: Two major environmental issues facing the AENP: extinction and overpopulation, which are interrelated. Since the AENP’s original mission was to reintroduce certain mega-herbivores, like the African elephant and black rhinoceros, primary ecological efforts were made to preserve mammalian species. However, by overlooking the other contributors to this environmental chain, certain plant species have been subjected to overgrazing and trampling, mostly by the elephants of the park. This overgrazing and trampling not only destroys much of the plant life, but also forces it to adapt its physiology to stimuli that are not inherent to its evolutionary progress. Some biologists argue that it is not herbivorization alone that is threatening the flora, but a number of other ecological factors including zoochory and nutrient cycling. Up to 77 species of South African endemic plant species have been listed as “vulnerable to elephant browsing.”

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Warthog family – Addo National Park

Warthog family | Addo National Park – Find Addo Accommodation. Image by Ballacorkish Addo Great Addo and Surrounds Accommodation Choices: Addo, Eastern Cape | Addo Village, Addo | Addo Elephant National Park, Eastern Cape | Greater Addo Route, Eastern Cape | Sunland, Addo | Colchester, Addo | Kirkwood, Addo | Paterson, Addo | Alicedale, Addo …

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Quick Addo Fact: Most Diverse Game Park – Addo Elephant National Park is said to be the most diverse game park on Earth. The area includes five biomes – Karoo, grassland, fynbos, thicket and forest.

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Port Elizabeth, Addo Elephant Park – Addo National Park

Port Elizabeth, Addo Elephant Park | Addo National Park – Find Addo Accommodation. Image by wattallan594 The Addo Elephant Park is a diverse wildlife conservation park near Port Elizabeth in South Africa. It is one of the country’s 19 national parks and ranks 3rd in size after the Kruger National Park and the Kgalagadi Transfrontier …

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The Addo Elephant Park is a diverse wildlife conservation park near Port Elizabeth in South Africa. It is one of the country’s 19 national parks and ranks 3rd in size after the Kruger National Park and the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park. The original section of the park was founded in 1931 in order to provide a sanctuary for the remaining 11 elephants in the area. This proved very successful and the current elephant population is around 600 together with a large number of other animals.

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Quick Addo Fact: The penguins in Addo are in trouble – Despite having elephant in the name, Addo Elephant National Park extends right down to the ocean and currently protects some very important islands in Algoa Bay, namely St Croix and Bird Island. African Penguins are more threatened than rhino are at this stage. Because they’re not a key species or a high profile one that people really know about, or care about penguins are on the sidelines. Their numbers have dwindled alarmingly and every ten years or so, their numbers halve and if it goes on at that rate, in the next twenty or thirty years there won’t be penguins around.’ Addo is responsible for the protection of about 50 percent of the total African Penguin population.

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Pied Starling – Addo National Park

Pied Starling | Addo National Park – Find Addo Accommodation. Image by Bird Brian Pied Starling Great Addo and Surrounds Accommodation Choices: Addo, Eastern Cape | Addo Village, Addo | Addo Elephant National Park, Eastern Cape | Greater Addo Route, Eastern Cape | Sunland, Addo | Colchester, Addo | Kirkwood, Addo | Paterson, Addo | …

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Quick Addo Fact: Happy Elephants – Guides in Addo don’t carry firearms because these elephants are some of the gentlest in the country. They don’t feel threatened around cars and even in musth pose little threat – that said tourists should never get too close as it makes an elephant feel threatened, rather give them space and park the car a little away. More often than not, the ellies will come to you. A large majority – rumoured to be around 90 percent – of the female elephants in Addo have no tusks. Bull elephants were introduced from Kruger to the widen genetic pool, so tusks are becoming more common.

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Tragelaphus oryx (Common Eland) – Addo National Park

Tragelaphus oryx (Common Eland) | Addo National Park – Find Addo Accommodation. Image by Arthur Chapman Common Eland (Tragelaphus oryx) near northern boundary of Addo Elephant National Park, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Photographed on 20 June 2012. www.inaturalist.org/observations/52648468 Great Addo and Surrounds Accommodation Choices: Addo, Eastern Cape | Addo Village, Addo | Addo Elephant National …

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Common Eland (Tragelaphus oryx) near northern boundary of Addo Elephant National Park, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Photographed on 20 June 2012.

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Quick Addo Fact: Addo is the only national park where you can hire a guide to take you around the park in your own car – A hop-on guide means that you drive and he guides, advising which routes to take and providing insight on Addo history, wildlife, botany and more. At the moment, there is only one hop-on guide in the park, but they are looking for more.

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Port Elizabeth, Addo Elephant Park – Addo Image

Port Elizabeth, Addo Elephant Park | Addo National Park – Find Addo Accommodation. Image by wattallan594 The Addo Elephant Park is a diverse wildlife conservation park near Port Elizabeth in South Africa. It is one of the country’s 19 national parks and ranks 3rd in size after the Kruger National Park and the Kgalagadi Transfrontier …

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The Addo Elephant Park is a diverse wildlife conservation park near Port Elizabeth in South Africa. It is one of the country’s 19 national parks and ranks 3rd in size after the Kruger National Park and the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park. The original section of the park was founded in 1931 in order to provide a sanctuary for the remaining 11 elephants in the area. This proved very successful and the current elephant population is around 600 together with a large number of other animals.

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Quick Addo Fact: Most Diverse Game Park – Addo Elephant National Park is said to be the most diverse game park on Earth. The area includes five biomes – Karoo, grassland, fynbos, thicket and forest.

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12 0727 – full frontal warthog, Addo – Addo National Park

12 0727 – full frontal warthog, Addo | Addo National Park – Find Addo Accommodation. Image by nairnbairn Great Addo and Surrounds Accommodation Choices: Addo, Eastern Cape | Addo Village, Addo | Addo Elephant National Park, Eastern Cape | Greater Addo Route, Eastern Cape | Sunland, Addo | Colchester, Addo | Kirkwood, Addo | Paterson, …

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Quick Addo Fact: Addo features a main camp, featuring a swimming pool, restaurant, flood lit water hole and various accommodation, four other rest camps and four camps run by concessionaires. The main entrance as well as two looped tourist roads in the park are tarred while the others are graveled. There is also an additional access road through the southern block of the park feeding off the N2 highway near Colchester; it joins up with the existing tourist roads in the park.

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Fiscal Flycatcher – Addo National Park

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Quick Addo Fact: The original Addo Elephant Park was expanded to include the Woody Cape Nature Reserve that extends from the Sundays River mouth towards Alexandria and a marine reserve, which includes St. Croix Island and Bird Island, both breeding habitat for gannets and penguins, not to mention a large variety of other marine life. Bird Island is home to the world’s largest breeding colony of gannets – about 120,000 birds – and also hosts the second largest breeding colony of African penguins, the largest breeding colony being St. Croix island. These marine assets form part of the plan to expand the 1,640 km² Addo National Elephant Park into the 3,600 km² Greater Addo Elephant National Park. The expansion will mean not only that the park contains five of South Africa’s seven major vegetation zones (biomes), but also that it will be the only park in the world to house Africa’s “Big 7“ (elephant, rhinoceros, lion, buffalo, leopard, whale and great white shark) in their natural habitat.

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Southern Boubou – Addo National Park

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Southern Boubou

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Quick Addo Fact: The original Addo Elephant Park was expanded to include the Woody Cape Nature Reserve that extends from the Sundays River mouth towards Alexandria and a marine reserve, which includes St. Croix Island and Bird Island, both breeding habitat for gannets and penguins, not to mention a large variety of other marine life. Bird Island is home to the world’s largest breeding colony of gannets – about 120,000 birds – and also hosts the second largest breeding colony of African penguins, the largest breeding colony being St. Croix island. These marine assets form part of the plan to expand the 1,640 km² Addo National Elephant Park into the 3,600 km² Greater Addo Elephant National Park. The expansion will mean not only that the park contains five of South Africa’s seven major vegetation zones (biomes), but also that it will be the only park in the world to house Africa’s “Big 7“ (elephant, rhinoceros, lion, buffalo, leopard, whale and great white shark) in their natural habitat.

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Port Elizabeth, Addo Elephant Park

Port Elizabeth, Addo Elephant Park | Addo National Park – Find Addo Accommodation. Image by wattallan594 The Addo Elephant Park is a diverse wildlife conservation park near Port Elizabeth in South Africa. It is one of the country’s 19 national parks and ranks 3rd in size after the Kruger National Park and the Kgalagadi Transfrontier …

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Addo National Park
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The Addo Elephant Park is a diverse wildlife conservation park near Port Elizabeth in South Africa. It is one of the country’s 19 national parks and ranks 3rd in size after the Kruger National Park and the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park. The original section of the park was founded in 1931 in order to provide a sanctuary for the remaining 11 elephants in the area. This proved very successful and the current elephant population is around 600 together with a large number of other animals.

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Quick Addo Fact: Happy Elephants – Guides in Addo don’t carry firearms because these elephants are some of the gentlest in the country. They don’t feel threatened around cars and even in musth pose little threat – that said tourists should never get too close as it makes an elephant feel threatened, rather give them space and park the car a little away. More often than not, the ellies will come to you. A large majority – rumoured to be around 90 percent – of the female elephants in Addo have no tusks. Bull elephants were introduced from Kruger to the widen genetic pool, so tusks are becoming more common.

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African elephant – Addo National Park

African elephant | Addo National Park – Find Addo Accommodation. Image by Nick Turland Addo Elephant National Park, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa, 9 January 2008. Great Addo and Surrounds Accommodation Choices: Addo, Eastern Cape | Addo Village, Addo | Addo Elephant National Park, Eastern Cape | Greater Addo Route, Eastern Cape | Sunland, Addo …

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Addo National Park
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Addo Elephant National Park, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa, 9 January 2008.

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Quick Addo Fact: Marine protected areas – The Addo Elephant National Park Marine Protected Area and Bird Island Marine Protected Area are associated with the park.

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12 0655m – spider’s web, dawn mist, Addo – Addo National Park

12 0655m – spider’s web, dawn mist, Addo | Addo National Park – Find Addo Accommodation. Image by nairnbairn Great Addo and Surrounds Accommodation Choices: Addo, Eastern Cape | Addo Village, Addo | Addo Elephant National Park, Eastern Cape | Greater Addo Route, Eastern Cape | Sunland, Addo | Colchester, Addo | Kirkwood, Addo | …

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Quick Addo Fact: South African Conservation Success. Addo is the third largest national park in South Africa and one of our country’s top conservation success stories. From its start in 1931 with only 11 elephants, the park is now home to over 600 of these mammals plus a growing and varied collection of wildlife – from endangered rhino to rare flightless dung beetles.

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Ostrich – Addo National Park

Ostrich | Addo National Park – Find Addo Accommodation. Image by code.monk Great Addo and Surrounds Accommodation Choices: Addo, Eastern Cape | Addo Village, Addo | Addo Elephant National Park, Eastern Cape | Greater Addo Route, Eastern Cape | Sunland, Addo | Colchester, Addo | Kirkwood, Addo | Paterson, Addo | Alicedale, Addo | Zuurberg, …

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Quick Addo Fact: Addo is a beautiful biodiversity hotspot – Our entire country can be divided into just nine biomes (a unique ecological unit with a characteristic set of plant, animal species and climate) and Addo stretches over five of these biomes, namely the Thicket, Forest, Succulent Karoo, Fynbos and Nama Karoo, and each biome has its own sets of key species. The big goal for the park is now to consolidate the land it has and create a functional ecological unit that stretches from the Karoo all across the mountains, fynbos, forest into the thicket and down across the coastal dune system. This diversity is key to its success. Conservation Manager John Adendorff says, ‘Addo is one of the most profitable parks. There’s nothing that even comes close for its size. It runs at 98% occupancy and there are very few spikes in the year, so it’s just consistent. It’s fully booked all the time and a very difficult place to get into.’

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Mouse in Addo – Addo National Park

Mouse in Addo | Addo National Park – Find Addo Accommodation. Image by Dunnock_D This is a mouse of some description in Addo National Park. Great Addo and Surrounds Accommodation Choices: Addo, Eastern Cape | Addo Village, Addo | Addo Elephant National Park, Eastern Cape | Greater Addo Route, Eastern Cape | Sunland, Addo | …

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This is a mouse of some description in Addo National Park.

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Quick Addo Fact: Tourism – In 2018 the highest visitor count in the park’s 87-year history was recorded. The park received 305,510 visitors between 1 April 2017 and 31 March 2018 (up from 265,585 in the previous year). International visitors make up 55% of this number, with German, Dutch and British nationals in the majority.

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#MyAddo – Port Elizabeth, Addo Elephant Park

Port Elizabeth, Addo Elephant Park | Addo National Park – Find Addo Accommodation. Image by wattallan594 The Addo Elephant Park is a diverse wildlife conservation park near Port Elizabeth in South Africa. It is one of the country’s 19 national parks and ranks 3rd in size after the Kruger National Park and the Kgalagadi Transfrontier …

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The Addo Elephant Park is a diverse wildlife conservation park near Port Elizabeth in South Africa. It is one of the country’s 19 national parks and ranks 3rd in size after the Kruger National Park and the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park. The original section of the park was founded in 1931 in order to provide a sanctuary for the remaining 11 elephants in the area. This proved very successful and the current elephant population is around 600 together with a large number of other animals.

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Quick Addo Fact: Spekboom is a superhero. Spekboom is prolific in the main game area of Addo and helps to sustain the Addo Elephant Park’s hearty population of over 600 elephants. The succulent spekboom regenerates quickly so the landscape doesn’t look devastated as it does in Kruger due to destructive elephant feeding. The plant is so good at converting carbon dioxide that ten hectares of spekboom would equal taking 25 cars off the road for a year. There are also places where the precious thicket opens up revealing wide plains of game with pinpricks of zebra in the distance and bigger blobs of eland. 79% of the park is covered in subtropical thicket and it is especially concentrated in the main game area. It may look uniform, but the subtropical thicket contains 112 different vegetation types and is comprised of 1 558 plant species – 322 of these species (20%) are endemic and found nowhere else.

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Southern Boubou – Addo National Park

Southern Boubou | Addo National Park – Find Addo Accommodation. Image by mmmavocado This little guy was at Addo Elephant National Park. Laniarius ferrugineus, Malaconotidae Great Addo and Surrounds Accommodation Choices: Addo, Eastern Cape | Addo Village, Addo | Addo Elephant National Park, Eastern Cape | Greater Addo Route, Eastern Cape | Sunland, Addo | …

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This little guy was at Addo Elephant National Park. Laniarius ferrugineus, Malaconotidae

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Quick Addo Fact: Addo is home to the biggest dune fields in South Africa – In a lesser-known stretch of Addo, where the park meets the sea, there’s a great gathering of high and wide dunes known as the Alexandria Dune Field. This dune sea, as it’s also known, is the largest and least degraded of its kind in the whole southern hemisphere, stretching over 15 800 hectares, with its widest point being five kilometres from the sea. You can park your car at Woody Cape Backpackers and stroll along for ten minutes on the boardwalk and see the immense dune field from a beautiful viewpoint on the beach. Go and see the dunes when the coral trees are also in flower, from June to October, when they form a red blanket over the tree canopy.

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