Langjan Nature Reserve, is situated in
Limpopo province,
South Africa, on the R521 to
Alldays, west of
Makhado, close to the
Blouberg Nature Reserve
Blouberg Nature Reserve is a protected area situated close to Vivo, west of Louis Trichardt in the Limpopo Province, of South Africa. It covers an area of from the eastern portion of the Blouberg mountain range to the savanna near the Brak ...
This reserve was established in 1954 to preserve the last autochthonous population of
Oryx gazella
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.
It is located between 22° 47'S and 22° 52'S and 29° 11'E and 29° 17'E and straddles the
Brak River running approximately from south to north. The altitude is around above sea level and is situated on
conglomerate
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,
limestone and
sandstone and deep red Kalahari sand.
The vegetation is referred to as "arid sweet
Bushveld"
Endemic species
Some of the important fauna found in the reserve include:
*
Oryx gazella
The gemsbok or South African oryx (''Oryx gazella'') is a large antelope in the genus ''Oryx''. It is native to the extremely dry, arid regions of Southern Africa; notably, the Kalahari Desert. Some authorities formerly classified the East Afric ...
- gemsbok
*
Psammobates oculifer - serrated tortoise,
* Typhlosaurus lineatus subtaeniatus - Striped blind legless skink,
*
Scelotes limpopoensis albiventris - Limpopo burrowing skink,
* Colopus wahlbergii wahlbergii - Wahlberg's Kalahari gecko
See also
*
Protected areas of South Africa
References
Nature reserves in South Africa
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