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History of the Knysna Elephants 1497-1907

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The Southernmost Free Roaming Elephants in the World Based on an estimated 3 000 elephants that may have roamed the Cape Floristic Region in pre-colonial times, it is assumed that about 1 000 elephants occupied the Outeniqua-Tsitsikamma (southern Cape) area. Over 300 years ago, the Knysna elephant population formed part of a continuous population that ranged from the Cape Peninsula to Limpopo (Garden Route National Park: State of knowledge, 2014). To the nomadic Bushmen, who hunted them with poisoned arrows, elephant meat was a staple food. Elephant skins were hung … Read the full article…

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Teniqua Treetops For Bird Lovers

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Teniqua Treetops in Knysna is a bird-watching paradise, accommodation with a major difference! We looked at building bird-hides before realising that each tree-house is a bird-hide 🙂 Awaken each morning to the sensual dawn chorus. We are visited by over a 100 different varieties of birds. We are blessed with the Knysna Turaco (Knysna Loerie) every day. Teniqua Treetops is located on 26 hectares of pristine indigenous forest; 3 hectares of fynbos and 6 hectares of open grassland. This encourages a range of birds. There is a wild-fig tree in … Read the full article…

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Hessequa, The People of the Forest

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If your browser doesn’t show the Play button, visit it directly on Soundcloud. Professor Michael de Jongh talks about the footprint of the early Khoi in the Garden Route. It’s a fascinating, educational that explains that the misspelt “Khoi” should in fact be translated as “Khoe Khoen”. The click in the language was derived from early migrators encountering Bushmen. He laments that the Attaqua, the “light coloured people”, ironically also the “white people”, have been mostly excluded from history. The Outeniqua were the honey gathers. The Gouriqua, along the coast, … Read the full article…

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Hidden Cam Pics of Knysna’s Forest Animals

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Thanks to a mammal survey by Lizette Moolman-van der Vyver and Melanie de Morney, SANPark scientists, we have these camera trap photos showing that the Knysna Forest is both beautiful and mysterious. See caracal, baby caracal, bushpig, baboons, buck, squirrel and leopard.

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Video: Wonders of the Garden Route National Park

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Along the South Coast of South Africa lies one of the most beautiful stretches of coastline in the world, home to the Garden Route National Park. A mosaic of ecosystems, it encompasses the world renowned Tsitsikamma and Wilderness sections, the Knysna Lake section, a variety of mountain catchment, Southern Cape indigenous forest and associated Fynbos areas. These areas resemble a montage of landscapes and seascapes, from ocean to mountain areas, and are renowned for its diverse natural and cultural heritage resources. Managed by South African National Parks, it hosts a … Read the full article…

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Early Humans to be Researched in Knysna’s Forest

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A University of Texas at Arlington anthropologist has been awarded a grant from the prestigious Leakey Foundation that will enable her to research early humans in South Africa. Naomi Cleghorn, assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, will lead a team of researchers and students this summer to a site near Knysna, South Africa, on the southern coast of the continent. She believes the site dates to a rarely represented time period – between 44,000 and 18,000 years ago – and holds never-before-seen evidence of early human evolution. … Read the full article…

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Can You Walk Your Dog in the Knysna Forest?

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A subscriber asked me if she was allowed to take her dog to a picnic area in the forest which made me wonder if there were any places in the Knysna Forest where dog lovers could go? Unfortunately, not. Nandi from SANParks kindly responded to me by saying that the National Forest Act doesn’t allow walking dogs in the forest at all. She pointed out that citizens are free to walk their dogs along the estuary edge (provided they are on a leash) and also at the old airfield next … Read the full article…

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