Namibia Africa Etosha National Park Jim Rogers

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In this video Jim visits Etosha National Park in Namibia.

Etosha National Park is a national park in the Kunene Region of northwestern Namibia. The park shares boundaries with the regions of Oshana, Oshikoto and Otjozondjupa.

Etosha was first established in 1907, when Namibia was a German colony known as South West Africa. At the time, the parks original 100,000 km² (38,500 mile²) made it the largest game reserve in the world. Due to political changes since its original establishment, the park is now slightly less than a quarter of its original area, but still remains a very large and significant area in which wildlife is protected.

The Etosha Pan dominates the park. The salt pan desert is roughly 130 km long and as wide as 50 km in places. The salt pan is usually dry, but fills with water briefly in the summer, when it attracts pelicans and flamingos in particular. Perennial springs attract a variety of animals and birds throughout the year, including the endangered Black Rhinoceros and the endemic Black-faced Impala.

In the dry season, winds blowing across the salt pan pick up saline dust and carry it across the country and out over the southern Atlantic. This salt enrichment provides minerals to the soil downwind of the pan on which some wildlife depends, though the salinity also creates challenges to farming.

The Etosha Pan was one of several sites throughout southern Africa in the Southern African Regional Science Initiative (SAFARI 2000). Using satellites, aircraft, and ground-based data from sites such as Etosha, partners in this program collected a wide variety of data on aerosols, land cover, and other characteristics of the land and atmosphere to study and understand the interactions between people and the natural environment.

A long fence has been erected along the parks 850 km boundary to control the spreading of disease. The animals concentrate around the new waterholes, resulting in excessive grazing in their vicinity. Fifty waterholes have been constructed to attract animals and so improve the viewing prospect for visitors.

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[xAnouk1993x]

What a beautiful video! It is a fantastic place to be, I will go there in July!!!

[xAnouk1993x]

It was REally beatifull!

[KalahariSurf]

@CamileMagee lol do you know Etosha means "big white place" ? It's named after the large salt pan in the middle of the Game Park

[alanccoop]

I spent a total of three days there and only saw a fraction of the park. The thatched lodges were delightful and it was great to dine (alfresco) in the eveming while watching the animals come in to the lit-up waterholes to quench their thirst. The acommodation, food and wines was first-clas and very affordable

[CamileMagee]

my name is etosha

[105km]

beautiful place!