It’s a constant reminder to me how beautiful the world is, working here in the remote mountain landscape at altitudes of 2 500m and more in the North-Eastern Cape grasslands of the Rhodes, Naudé’s Neck and Maclear (renamed Nqanqarhu) area.
This is where the establishment of a new national park project has been approved, with SANParks and the WWF-SA partnering to create a Grasslands National Park that will ultimately be about 30 000 ha. The area was chosen for a number of reasons, and I’m quoting SANParks General Manager, Kristal Maze: ‘It is one of South Africa’s key strategic water source areas (the Eastern Cape Drakensberg), it is rich in biodiversity, with large tracts of untransformed high altitude grasslands – one of the least protected biomes in South Africa; and it is an important climate change corridor. For all these reasons, it warrants national park status.’
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