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I Dream AfricaNaukluft Park |
Visitors are quite often amazed at the fauna and flora of this nature reserve. In many parts of the desert and the barren mountain world, where nothing seems to grow, game can be seen. Oryx wander across the hot plains shimmering in the heat between the red dunes near Sossusvlei – or suddenly appear right out of the sand sea. Small herds of springbok are resting on the vast gravel plains, and Hartmann’s mountain zebra agilely take flight into the mountains on rocky paths. At the foot of enormous dunes and along dry riverbeds gnarled old Camel thorn trees are growing, and from a red dune the juicy light-green of a Nara plant catches the eye. Later, when the mining company Consolidated Diamond Mines relinquished part of the Diamond Restricted Area 2, it was – together with the Naukluft protected areas – integrated into the Namib Desert Park to form the Namib Naukluft Park, boosting its size to 23,000 km2 in 1979. The park grew to its present size in 1986, when the remainder of the Diamond Restricted Area 2 and a small part of Area 1 was relinquished. |
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