Everything about Addo Elephant National Park totally explained
Addo Elephant National Park is an
elephant park situated close to
Port Elizabeth in
South Africa and is recognized as one of the country's twenty
national parks.
The original section of the park was founded in 1931, in part due to
Sydney Skaife, in order to provide a sanctuary for the eleven remaining elephants in the area. The park has proved to be very successful and currently houses more than 450 elephants, 400
Cape buffalo, over 48 endangered
black rhino as well as a variety of
antelope species.
Lion and spotted
hyena has also recently been re-introduced to the area. A species unique to the area is the flightless
dung beetle, namely
Circellium bacchus.
The original park has subsequently been expanded to include the Woody Cape Nature Reserve that extends from the
Sundays River mouth towards
Alexandria and a marine reserve, which includes
St. Croix Island and
Bird Island, an important breeding habitat for gannets and penguins, not to mention a large variety of other marine life. Bird Island is home to the world's largest breeding colony of
gannets - about 120,000 birds - and also hosts the second largest breeding colony of
African penguins. This forms part of the plan to expand the 1,480 km² Addo National Elephant Park into a 3,600 km²
Greater Addo Elephant National Park.
The expansion has meant not only that the park contains five of South Africa's seven major vegetation zones (
biomes) but also that it's probably the only park in the world to house the so-called "
Big 7" (
elephant,
rhinoceros,
lion,
buffalo,
leopard,
whale and
great white shark) in their natural
habitat.
The park receives about 120,000 visitors annually. International visitors make up 54% of this number, with
German,
Dutch and
British nationals making up the majority.
There is a main and four other rest camps as well four camps run by concessionaires.
The main entrance as well as two looped tourist roads in the park are tarred while the others are graveled. There is also an additional access road through the southern block of the park feeding off the
N2 highway near
Colchester; it joins up with the existing tourist roads in the park.
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