CHOBE NATIONAL PARK NORTHERN BOTSWANA LARGEST CONCENTRATIONS GAME IN AFRICA THE THIRD THE CENTRAL KALAHARI GAME RESERVE GEMSBOK NATIONAL PARK BIOLOGICALLY NATIONAL THE PARK DIVIDED UP TO DISTINCT ECOSYSTEM AREA SITUATED THE EXTREME NORTHEAST GEOGRAPHICAL FEATURES LUSH FLOODPLAINS DENSE WOODLAND TEAK HARDWOODS REDUCED HEAVY ELEPHANT CHOBE RIVER FLOWS THE NORTHEAST BORDER MAJOR WATERING DRY SEASON BREEDING HERDS FAMILIES SABLE CAPE BUFFALO THE FLOOD THE ONLY PLACE PUKU ANTELOPE BIRDING EXCELLENT LARGE NUMBERS CARMINE BEE EATERS IN SEASON FLOOD SPOONBILLS SPECIES DUCK WATERFOWL FLOCK THE VICTORIA FALLS THE TOWN KASANE DOWNSTREAM TOWN OF THE REGION ENTRANCE MARSH THE WESTERN STRETCH NORTH THE RELIC INLAND LAKE WHOSE WATER SUPPLY CUT TECTONIC MOVEMENT NOWADAYS THE MARSH CHANNEL DRIES PERIODS CONSEQUENCE TECTONIC ACTIVITY FLOWING REACHED THE FIRST TIME VARIABLE HUNDRED DEAD TREES THE CHANNELS SAVANNA ROLLING GRASSLAND WILDLIFE PARTICULARLY DYNAMIC SECTION TOURISTS GOING ON SAFARI VIEW WARTHOG KUDU IMPALA ZEBRA WILDEBEEST HERD ELEPHANTS BULLYING EACH OTHER RAIN SEASON THE RICH BIRDLIFE THE WHOLE LION HYENA CHEETAH VISIBLE THIS REGION INDEED ANNUAL MIGRATION PREDATOR THE NORTHWEST CORNER TO THE NORTH ADJACENT LINYANTI RIVER THE WEST LIES RESERVE NORTHERN BANK KWANDO RIVER NAMIBIA NKASA RUPARA NATIONAL PARK RIVERS RIVERINE OPEN WOODLANDS THE REST FLOOD PLAINS HERE LEOPARD AFRICAN WILD DOG ROAN ANTELOPE HIPPOPOTAMUS RED LECHWE SITATUNGA BASK CROCODILE BIRD LIFE RICH MARSHES GRASS LITTLE SPOTTING ELAND THE ORIGINAL INHABITANTS THE SAN BUSHMEN BASARWA PEOPLE NOMADIC MOVING PLACE TO PLACE FIND FOOD SOURCES WATER WILD PAINTINGS INSIDE ROCKY HILLS AT THE BEGINNING LAND TENURE THAT TIME THE PARKS CLASSIFIED CROWN LAND THE IDEA NATIONAL PARK PROTECT PROMOTE TOURISM FIRST APPEARED DISTRICT OFFICIALLY YEARS LATER TSETSE INFESTATIONS THE CREATION THE NATIONAL PARK PROJECT GOVERNMENTAL ATTENTION SMALLER THAN THE TIMBER INDUSTRY OUT OF THE PARK PROTECTED AREA HUMAN ACTIVITY TRACES PRIOR TIMBER MINOR EXPANSIONS SPECTACULAR ELEPHANT POPULATION HIGHEST CONCENTRATION CONTINUOUS SURVIVING SEEMS SOLIDLY LIVING SIZE RATHER BRITTLE IVORY SHORT TUSK CALCIUM DEFICIENCY DAMAGE CAUSED THE HIGH NUMBERS RIFE IN FACT SO HIGH CULLS CONTROVERSIAL THUS THE SOUTHEAST ZONE NORTHWESTERN ZIMBABWE