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SANParks aims to alleviate poverty in WC with community social legacy programme
SANParks has gifted a group of pensioners from Wilderness Heights on the Garden Route with food gardening tools and the relevant licences to fish.
On 18 April 2021, a devastating fire caused major destruction in parts of Cape Town, destroying historic buildings such as the Rhodes Memorial Restaurant and the University of Cape Town’s Jagger Library. It’s been exactly a year since then - this is how the recovery is looking. #CTFires
On 18 April 2021, hundreds of firefighters and a range of emergency services flocked to parts of Table Mountain where an "out of control" fire was burning.
This follows the release of a report last week by the Department of Forestry, Fisheries, and Environment confirming that seven rhino had been killed in the park recently.
The special group of rangers operates on Lions Head, Tafelberg Road, Signal Hill, and Table Mountain to ensure the safety of visitors, especially during the festive season.
SANParks said bullet wounds were visible in her head and foreleg and there were open wounds to her nasal cavity where her horn had been brutally hacked off.
Omicron is believed to be behind the latest spike in coronavirus infections, especially in Gauteng.
It's the 16th annual SANParks Week, and South Africans will have free access to the Addo, Table Mountain, Kruger and the Tsitsikamma section of the Garden Route National Park.
Management at the Kruger National Park has confirmed that a filling station at the Lower Sabie camp has burnt down after it was struck by lightning on Sunday.
The City of Cape Town's JP Smith said that the reward could be increased.
Independent investigator Rob Erasmus said that his probe found that the fire did not start naturally or accidentally.
Dominic Majola writes that the early morning sound of hyenas in the Kruger was a wake-up call that made it very real for her that humans are not the only ones occupying planet Earth.
Restoration work has concluded in some parts of the national park, which means some areas are ready to reopen.
The official at the Newlands picnic site was insulted, racially abused and pelted with stones after cyclists demanded entry to a cordoned-off section earlier this month.
Earlier this month, an official at the Newlands picnic site was insulted, racially abused and stoned by cyclists demanded entry to a cordoned-off section.
The organisation confirmed on Tuesday that Fundisile Mketeni had been placed on special leave following recent claims.
SANParks board chairperson, Joanne Yawitch, said that in line with SANParks' commitment to ethical conduct and the seriousness of the allegations, Mketeni has requested to take special leave until the matter has been resolved and the law has taken its course.
Rangers on routine patrol spotted three poachers who ran into the elephant herd while trying to flee.
A body was discovered floating in the Silvermine Dam earlier on Saturday.