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Media Release: Free access to National Parks starts next week
Date: 2010-09-09
From Monday, 13 September until Friday, 17 September, the country’s body charged with the management of national parks, SANParks will allow locals with valid identity documents an opportunity to spend a day at a national park of their choice free of charge.
Media Release: KNP gears up for SANParks Week celebrations
Date: 2010-09-09
The Annual 2010 SANParks Week once again will take place on 13-17 September 2010 throughout all national parks which fall under South African National Parks.
Media Release: TMNP - a national asset and international icon
Date: 2010-09-08
The Chief Executive of South African National Parks (SANParks), Dr David Mabunda, announced today, 08 September 2010, at the organisation’s head office in Pretoria that there has been no official correspondence from the City of Cape Town to indicate that the municipality wants to take over the management of Table Mountain National Park (TMNP) or to take SANParks to Court over the issue of baboon management in Cape Town.
Media Release: MZNP to offer free entry during SA National Parks Week
Date: 2010-09-07
To celebrate Heritage Month, South African National Parks (SANParks) is offering you the chance to experience your natural heritage for free during SA National Parks Week.
Media Release: Karoo National Park to offer free entry during SA National Parks Week
Date: 2010-09-07
To celebrate Heritage Month, South African National Parks (SANParks) is offering you the chance to experience your natural heritage for free during SA National Parks Week.
Media Release: Camdeboo National Park to offer free entry for SA National Parks Week
Date: 2010-09-07
To celebrate Heritage Month, South African National Parks (SANParks) is offering you the chance to experience your natural heritage for free during SA National Parks Week.
Winners for the 2010 Forum Amateur Photo Competition announced!
Date: 2010-09-06
The polls have been completed and the results are in for the 2010 Forum Amateur Photo Competition.
Media Release: Skukuza gets stainless steel dustbins
Date: 2010-09-04
The Kruger National Park’s (KNP's) Managing Executive, Abe Sibiya received a donation of 150 baboon-proof stainless steel dustbins from Nampak as represented by SANParks Honorary Rangers on Friday, September 3, 2010.
Media Release: Take out camping gear and head to a National Park this Spring
Date: 2010-09-01
Today South African National Parks (SANParks) announced that it would like to wish all its patrons a happy Spring Day as its employees celebrate the first day of spring at its Head Office, Groenkloof National Park.
Media Release: KNP Rangers receive protective eyewear
Date: 2010-08-30
The HOD: Finance, Victor Makhubedu today (Monday, August 30, 2010) officially received 300 pairs of protective eyewear for each ranger in the Park from CAT International at the Skukuza Conference Centre on behalf of KNP Management.
Media Release: Enter the “My Addo” photographic competition
Date: 2010-08-30
Those with a flair for photography and a passion for nature stand a chance of winning prizes worth thousands of rands by capturing the essence of the greater Addo Park.
MZNP telephone lines working again
Date: 2010-08-23
Telephone lines have been restored at Mountain Zebra National Park (MZNP) and are working again.
Media Release: Historic occasion as Addo Elephant National Park opens fence
Date: 2010-08-20
History was made today when the boundary fence between two sections of Addo Elephant National Park was taken down, providing new habitat for many of the Park’s wildlife species.
Media Release: Red-billed oxpeckers fly into MZNP
Date: 2010-08-18
A group of 40 red-billed oxpeckers will be flown into the Mountain Zebra National Park (MZNP) near Cradock this week.
Media Release: SANParks CEO opens World Protected Areas Leadership Forum
Date: 2010-08-16
Opening the World Protected Areas Leadership Forum (WPALF) this morning at Skukuza, in the KNP, the CE of SANParks, Dr David Mabunda said the hosting of a forum such as WPALF could not have come at a better time for Protected Areas world-wide, particularly as governments are at this stage wrestling with the effects of the recent economic recession.
Endangered zebra poached in Addo Elephant National Park
Date: 2010-08-16
A Cape mountain zebra, an endangered species, has been shot by a poacher in the Darlington Dam area of the Addo Elephant National Park. The zebra carcass – that of a young stallion – was found by rangers during a routine patrol on the morning of 11 August.
Media Release: Head honchos of global conservation to meet in Skukuza
Date: 2010-08-13
South African National Parks (SANParks) will be hosting the World Protected Areas Leadership Forum from 16-19 August 2010, at Skukuza in the Kruger National Park (KNP) .
KNP’s Shingwedzi & Satara swimming pools temporarily closed
Date: 2010-08-11
The swimming pools at Shingwedzi and Satara Rest Camps in the Kruger National Park (KNP) are temporarily closed.
Media Release: Dates for annual week of free access to SANParks confirmed
Date: 2010-08-06
South African National Parks (SANParks) has announced that the official opening of the 2010 South African National Parks Week will take place on Monday, 13 September 2010 at Addo Elephant National Park in the Eastern Cape.
Media Release: Last chance to enter into the 2010 Kudu Award
Date: 2010-08-06
South African National Parks (SANParks) has extended the deadline for entries into the 6th Annual Kudu Awards, to Monday, 16 August 2010.
Online booking system offline this evening
Date: 2010-08-04
The Online Booking System will be offline this evening, 4 August 2010 from 7pm SAST for a maximum of 5 hours.
Media Release: Poachers relentless in bloody pursuit of rhino horn
Date: 2010-07-28
South African National Parks (SANParks) confirmed today (Wednesday, 28 July) that the total figure for rhinos poached in the country since January this year, is 152.
Media Release: Rape incident did not happen in Addo Elephant National Park
Date: 2010-07-26
South African National Parks (SANParks) wishes to clarify that a rape incident which took place on Saturday 24 July, did not happen in the Addo Elephant National Park.
Richtersveld’s Ganakoeriep Wilderness Camp can soon be booked online!
Date: 2010-07-16
Ganakoeriep Wilderness Camp in the Richtersveld Transfrontier National Park will be officially placed on the online booking system for reservations as from 1 August 2010.
SANParks’ Mandela Day dedication of 67 minutes of service begins early
Date: 2010-07-15
Given that Mandela Day falls on a Sunday, South African National Parks (SANParks) will be honouring Former President Nelson Mandela’s call to dedicate 67 minutes of time to the service of our communities on Friday, 16 July 2010.
Media Release: Another suspected poacher arrested in KNP
Date: 2010-07-14
South African National Parks (SANParks) announced today that the Kruger National Park (KNP) Rangers arrested another Mozambican suspected poacher in the national park on Monday evening, 12 July 2010.
Media Release: Hikers in stable condition after buffalo attack at MZNP
Date: 2010-07-13
The three hikers who survived the attack by a buffalo bull on a hiking trail in Mountain Zebra National Park (MZNP) yesterday are in a stable condition in a Port Elizabeth hospital.
Media Release: Man killed by buffalo on hiking trail in MZNP
Date: 2010-07-13
A man has been killed and another two women and a man injured by a buffalo bull on a hiking trail in Mountain Zebra National Park (MZNP).
MZNP hiking trails closed
Date: 2010-07-13
All Hiking Trails in the Mountain Zebra National Park (MZNP) have been closed with immediate effect until further notice.
Media Release: Four suspected rhino poachers arrested in KNP
Date: 2010-07-12
The South African National Parks (SANParks) Environmental Crime Investigation (ECI) team and rangers arrested four suspected poachers in the Kruger National Park (KNP) on Saturday, 10 July 2010.
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