Kruger National Park in the 1980s

1980

  • August – The Nyalaland Trail opens near Punda Maria in the far north of the Park.[1]

1981

  • April 21 – A research team collects specimens of the African lungfish Protopterus annectens brieni Poll in a small pan in the Pumbe sandveld on the border with Mozambique. This is the first record of this species in the Park as well as the Republic of South Africa.[2]

1983

  • August - The Bushman Trail opens.

1985

1988

  • July 11 - The Gonde-Gonde incident: a park vehicle detonated a landmine a few kilometres south of Pafuri. No one was hurt.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Schreiber, Arrie (October 1988). "Ten years of trails in the Kruger National Park". CUSTOS. 17 (7): 20–23.
  2. ↑ Pienaar, U. de V. (1981). "Another important Ichthyological find in the Kruger National Park". Koedoe. 24 (1): 189–191.
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