Unusual or Interesting Sightings in the Kgalagadi

[Klipspringer]

How is the fence situation now? Can animals migrate into KTP from Botswana or is there a fence?

And was there a fence in 1978?

No fence these days, but I would think that there was one back in 1978 since the park only became a transfrontier park in 1999.

Yes, but I mean the fence on the Botswana side.

Is there now a functional fence between the Botswana part of the KTP and the rest of Botswana and was there a fence in 1978 on the RSA/Botswana border?

If there was no fence earlier it would explain all sorts of rare sightings then and if it is now fenced towards Botswana there can't be much of migration.

[Mel]

Since there is a Kaa Gate, for example, on the Bots side, I think it's safe to assume that there will be a fence around the park on that side.
And doesn't the term "park" suggest that there is a fence around it anyways?

[Klipspringer]

Not fenced in the early years


1931 Kalahari Gemsbok National Park proclaimed by the then Minister of Lands, Piet Grobler, to prevent the further depletion of game by farmers and biltong hunters through the National Parks Act

1938 The British government proclaimed a new game reserve across the Nossob in what is today Botswana, i.e. present day Botswana Gemsbok National Park

1938 Game fences erected along the park's western and southern boundaries; eastern boundary remains unfenced for animals to migrate from east to west

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1 ... 6/2/024009

[Klipspringer]

Antelopes Global Survey and Regional Action Plans. IUCN, 1988

KTP.png (64.08 KiB) Viewed 878 times

So still open to the east in 1988.


There is an electrified double game fences along the borders of Kgalagadi Transfrontier National Park (erected in 1995) in Botswana, but it seems to be only a section in the South.
Source:
https://ediss.sub.uni-hamburg.de/vollte ... tation.pdf

Maybe the remainder is not fenced or only with a small fence

[Richprins]

The fences in Botswana are veterinary ones, if memory serves?

[Klipspringer]

The fences in Botswana are veterinary ones, if memory serves?

Some are, but not in the South. That's the drama in north and central Bots, that these fences kill a lot of wildlife.

I think, there is still no eastern fence in KTP.

[Richprins]

[Peter Betts]

Correct the Park is completely open on the eastern boundary into Botswana..Fenced in the west (Namibian side) and South and South East but the SE side is very porous Lions always getting into the farms with often fatal results

[nan]

special sighting in the Kgalagadi

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=101 ... 3368872708



Kori emerged victorious

[Mel]

Very cool! I'm a tad jealous of that sighting.