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Lubombo Conservancy
Lubombo Conservancy comprises 5 reserves in Eswatini: * Hlane Royal National Park * Mbuluzi Game Reserve * Mlawula Nature Reserve View from Magadzevane Camp on the Lubombo mountains Blue wildebeest and impala in ''Acacia nigrescens">impala.html" ;"title="Blue wildebeest and impala">Blue wildebeest and impala in ''Acacia nigrescens'' savanna The Mlawula Nature Reserve is ... * Shewula Community Nature Reserve * Nkhalashane Siza Ranch These areas, comprising about 60,000 hectares, include statutorily proclaimed protected areas, private property, and Swazi nation land. External links http://www.thekingdomofswaziland.com/pages/attractions/the_attraction.asp?AttractionsID=42 http://www.sntc.org.sz/programs/lubombo.asp Protected areas of Eswatini {{Swaziland-geo-stub ...
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Swaziland
Eswatini ( ; ss, eSwatini ), officially the Kingdom of Eswatini and formerly named Swaziland ( ; officially renamed in 2018), is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. It is bordered by Mozambique to its northeast and South Africa to its north, west, south, and southeast. At no more than north to south and east to west, Eswatini is one of the smallest countries in Africa; despite this, its climate and topography are diverse, ranging from a cool and mountainous highveld to a hot and dry Veld, lowveld. The population is composed primarily of ethnic Swazi people, Swazis. The prevalent language is Swazi language, Swazi (''siSwati'' in native form). The Swazis established their kingdom in the mid-18th century under the leadership of Ngwane III. The country and the Swazi take their names from Mswati II, the 19th-century king under whose rule the country was expanded and unified; its boundaries were drawn up in 1881 in the midst of the Scramble for Africa. After the Second Boer W ...
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Hlane Royal National Park
Hlane Royal National Park is a national park in Eswatini, roughly 67 km northeast of Manzini along the MR3 road.South Africa, page 815 Prior to the park being public, it was a private royal hunting ground. Hlane, meaning 'wilderness', was named by King Sobhuza II. It is now held in trust for the Nation by His Majesty King Mswati III, and is managed by Big Game Parks, a privately owned body. Features It is Eswatini's largest protected area and park. The park and its adjacent dispersal areas cover of Swazi bushveld. It is a flat lowland area, covered with ancient hardwood trees like knobthorn, leadwood and tambuti, with some grasslands and shallow pans. Fauna Hlane is home to the lion, elephant, giraffe, and white rhinoceros. Wildebeest, zebra and impala herds are attracted to the waterholes during the dry winter months, June to September. After a long absence, cheetah populations have been reintroduced in this park. It has an abundant and diverse birdlife, including t ...
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Mbuluzi Game Reserve
Mbuluzi Game Reserve is a privately owned reserve in Eswatini, within the Lubombo Conservancy. There are 3 lodges privately situated on the Mlawula River, and a campsite, situated above some rapids in the Mbuluzi River. Wildlife Large wildlife species present in the reserve include South African giraffes, plains zebras, black wildebeests, kudus, nyalas, bushbucks, waterbucks, impala, warthogs, crocodiles, vervet monkeys, vhacma baboons, common duikers. Also occasionally seen are hippopotami, bushpigs, Cape clawless otters, and red duiker The red forest duiker, Natal duiker, or Natal red duiker (''Cephalophus natalensis'') is a small antelope found in central to southern Africa. It is one of 22 extant species form the subfamily Cephalophinae. While the red forest duiker is very s ...s. References External links * {{Coord missing, Eswatini Protected areas of Eswatini ...
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Mlawula Nature Reserve
View from Magadzevane Camp on the Lubombo mountains Blue wildebeest and impala in ''Acacia nigrescens">impala.html" ;"title="Blue wildebeest and impala">Blue wildebeest and impala in ''Acacia nigrescens'' savanna The Mlawula Nature Reserve is a nature reserve situated in north-eastern Eswatini. It covers approximately 16,500 hectares and is adjacent to Mbuluzi Game Reserve, Simunye Nature Reserve, and Hlane Royal National Park Hlane Royal National Park is a national park in Eswatini, roughly 67 km northeast of Manzini along the MR3 road.South Africa, page 815 Prior to the park being public, it was a private royal hunting ground. Hlane, meaning 'wilderness', was n .... The Mlawula area was first proclaimed as a protected area in 1914 but was subsequently deproclaimed and subdivided into cattle ranches. The first part of Mlawula to be proclaimed as a conservation area was donated in 1978, to become Ndzindza Nature Reserve. Mlawula Estates were purchased soon after follo ...
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