Gemsbock National Park
One of the most interesting but
lesser known regions of Botswana, the Gemsbok National Park is set
in the remote south-western corner of Botswana, where the annual rainfall
seldom exceeds 125 millimetres. Closer to the traditional image of
a desert, it consists of gently undulating sand dunes that are sparseley
vegetaged and criss-crossed by fossil rivers.
There are two Gemsbok parks;
the larger, Gemsbock National Park (26 000 square kilometres) is
in Botswana and the smaller adjacent Kalahari Gemsbok Park (9 600
square kilometres) is in South Africa. The Kalahari Gemsbok National
Park in South Africa, which was proclaimed a national park on July
3, 1931 mainly to curb the activities of game poachers, ranks among
the great game reserves of Africa, partly because it shares an unfenced
boundary with an equally rugged sanctuary in Botswana, facilitating
the seasonal migration of animals in search of water.
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