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Southern Africa
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P.O. Box 3422
Paarl
Western Cape
South Africa
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Moremi Game Reserve
Moremi covers some 4,871 km2, as the eastern section of
the Okavango Delta. Moremi is mostly described as
one of the most beautiful wildlife reserves in Africa as it combines mopane woodland and
acacia forests, floodplains and lagoons.
It is the great diversity of plant and animal life that makes Moremi so well known. The
reserve contains within its boundaries approximately twenty percent of the Okavango Delta.
There are a wide range of habitats in Moremi; from riparian woodlland, floodplain, reed
beds, permanent wetland through mopane forest to dry savanna woodland. The mainland part
forms only about thirty percent of the reserve and is, in many ways untypical - the
remaining area being part of the Okavango Delta.
Wildlife
Birdlife is prolific and varied, ranging from water
birds to shy forest dwellers. There are many species of ducks end geese, as well as an
amazing variety of heron.
Elephants are numerous, particularly during the dry season, as well as a range of other
wildlife species from buffalo, giraffe, lion, leopard, cheetah, wild dog, hyaena, jackal
and the full range of antelope, large and small, including the red lechwe.
Wild dog, whose numbers are so rapidly dwindling elsewhere, are regularly sighted in the
Moremi and have been subject to a project being run in the area since 1989.
Moremi is best visited in the dry season and game viewing is at its peak from July to
October, when seasonal pans dry up and the wildlife concentrates on the permanent water.
At any time of the year, game is prolific (although what is seen obviously varies with the
season).
Mosquitoes are prevalent throughout the reserve and it is strongly recommended that
visitors should take an anti-malarial prophylactic.
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