Addo Elephant Park Milestones
www.MyAddo.co.za: The Addo Elephant Park’s achievements and milestones of the past six months (April – September 2008):
- Four spotted hyena and three lion cubs were born. Five cheetah cubs were born in the Kuzuko Contractual Area – the first cheetah ever to be born in the Park.
- Addo Elephant National Park is home to more than half the population of the black rhino bicornis subspecies (or so-called desert-adapted rhino) in South Africa.
- The Coast Care programme cleaned up 4356 kg’s of waste from the Sundays beach area.
- 5 762 children and 611 adults participated in environmental education programmes in the Park.
- The unit occupancy in Camp Matyholweni rose (compared to last year) by 11% to 52.8% while camping occupancy rose by 4% to 52.8%.
- 53 369 people visited the Park from April to September, representing a drop of 8.1% compared to the same period in 2007. This is the result of the Easter weekend – a very popular holiday time - falling in March (whereas it was in April last year) as well as the effect of an increase in fuel costs.
- Only 67.6 mm of rain was recorded in the Addo section of the Park, compared to the long term average (average over 10 years) for April to September of 165.1 mm
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