- A new national park is being developed by the SANParks and the World Wide Fund for Nature.
- The NE Cape Grasslands National Park will encompass 30,000 hectares, stretching along the Eastern Cape’s border with Lesotho.
- It will include Naude’s Nek pass, South Africa’s highest lying road at over 2,500m.
- And in addition to protecting grassland and water reserves, it’s also aiming to create jobs in the area.
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South African National Parks (SANParks) and the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) are working on establishing a high-altitude national park in the mountains of the Eastern Cape near to the Lesotho border.
The NE Cape Grasslands National Park is expected to encompass an area of roughly 30,000 hectares, starting west of Maclear and stretching along the southern-most reaches of the mountainous Lesotho border. Naude’s Nek pass, South Africa’s highest…