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The Kruger National Park in the 1970s
1961
edit- April 20 – Warden Steyn retires. He's replaced by the chief biologist, A. M. Brynard, who took on the new title of Nature Conservator. [1]
- October – The first batch of 4 white rhinos were translocated from Natal and released in a special enclosure near Pretoriuskop. [2]
1968
edit- January 1 – Two trains collide near Randspruit between Skukuza and Crocodile Bridge in the worst train disaster in the park. Fourteen people died with a further 38 seriously injured.
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Bulpin, T.V., Treasury of Travel Series: Kruger National Park, Creda Press, 1974.
- ^ Pienaar, U. de V. (1970). "The Recolonisation History of the Square-Lipped (White) Rhinoceros in the Kruger National Park (October 1961 - November 1969)". Koedoe. 13: 157–169. doi:10.4102/koedoe.v13i1.738.