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A national park is a park in use for conservation purposes. Often it is a reserve of natural, semi-natural, or developed land that a sovereign state declares or owns. Although individual nations designate their own national parks differently, there is a common idea: the conservation of 'wild nature' for posterity and as a symbol of national pride. An international organization, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), and its World Commission on Protected Areas, has defined "National Park" as its Category II type of protected areas.
While this type of national park had been proposed previously, the United States established the first "public park or pleasuring-ground for the benefit and enjoyment of the people", Yellowstone National Park, in 1872. Although Yellowstone was not officially termed a "national park" in its establishing law, it was always termed such in practice and is widely held to be the first and oldest national park in the world. The first area to use "national park" in its creation legislation was the US's Mackinac Island, in 1875. Australia's Royal National Park, established in 1879, was the world's third official national park. In 1895 ownership of Mackinac Island was transferred to the State of Michigan as a state park and national park status was consequently lost. As a result, Australia's Royal National Park is by some considerations the second oldest national park now in existence.
Gonarezhou National Park is a national park located in south-eastern Zimbabwe. It is situated in a relatively remote corner of Masvingo Province, south of Chimanimani along the Mozambique border. Owing to its vast size, rugged terrain and its location away from main tourist routes, large tracts of Gonarezhou remain as pristine wilderness.
At 5,053 km2 Gonarezhou is the country’s second largest game reserve after Hwange National Park. Gonarezhou is a Shona name meaning "elephant's tusk." It forms part of the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park, a peace park that links Gonarezhou with the Kruger National Park in South Africa and the Limpopo National Park in Mozambique. Animals can move freely between the three sanctuaries.
The Gonarezhou National Park was formed in 1975, by uniting former hunting areas and tsetse fly control corridors.
The park was closed to the public during the Rhodesian War and again during much of the Mozambique civil war but was re-opened in 1994.
Filmed on the road from Gonarezhou National Park to Chiredzi (through the area of the Malilangwe Trust). 07/06/2014 Zimbabwe
Gonarezhou National Park wandelsafari - Chilojo Cliffs beklimming. Een safari naar Gonarezhou NP kunt u boeken bij Going Africa Safaris. http://www.goingafrica.com/zimbabwe-lodge-kampeersafaris.html
Flying with RC multirotor DJI Phantom in Machaniwa Pan - swamp at Save River and Runde River (Gonarezhou National Park), Masvingo Province, Zimbabwe, Nov. 2013
An angry elephant send a strong message to tourist at Zimbabwe's Gonarezhou National Park
Patience Zisadza on doing general ecological monitoring in the protected area where she works. She encounters an elephant carcass near Fishans area in Gonarezhou National Park. Even though the park has a balooming population of elephants-it's always heartbreaking to see cases if illegal killing of elephants by poachers. Law-enforcement is one of the major activities in protected areas of Zimbabwe. This particular carcass had 2 bullet wounds
(see below for the English version) V další, již 3. epizodě uvízneme v řece Save na zimbawsko-mosambických hranicích při safari v národním parku Gonarezhou. S rangerem Thomasem uděláme nějaké letecké záběry (kamera na multi-rotoru Phantom) z této úžasné rezervace, kde jsme 3 dny bydleli v Chilo Gorge Safari Lodge. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In next, the 3rd episode we trapped in the Save River on the Zimbabwe-Mozambique border to safari in the Gonarezhou National Park . With a ranger Thomas do some aerial shots (from my RC multi-rotor Phantom) of this amazing game reserve, where we lived three days in Chilo Gorge Safari Lodge.
Shepherd carrying the cable through the deep water to wench to a nearby tree and hopefully pull us out of the 16 inches of mud in which we were stuck.
River Crossing in Zimbabwe Gonarezhou National Park
An angry elephant send a strong message to tourist at Zimbabwe's Gonarezhou National Park
Flying with RC multirotor DJI Phantom in Machaniwa Pan - swamp at Save River and Runde River (Gonarezhou National Park), Masvingo Province, Zimbabwe, Nov. 2013
Fanny and Lucy's travelogue 2014 continues in Gonarezhou National Park, Zimbabwe
A short film about Chilo Gorge Safari Lodge and Gonarezhou National Park.
Photographs taken inside Gonarezhou National Park 2010
A lone bull elephant visits our camp at Chipinda Pools in the Gonarezhou National Park Zimbabwe August 2015. Iain Macdonald.
Gonarezhou National Park wandelsafari - Chilojo Cliffs beklimming. Een safari naar Gonarezhou NP kunt u boeken bij Going Africa Safaris. http://www.goingafrica.com/zimbabwe-lodge-kampeersafaris.html
Filmed on the road from Gonarezhou National Park to Chiredzi (through the area of the Malilangwe Trust). 07/06/2014 Zimbabwe
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