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Etosha cut to 22,270 km2 to create apartheid 'homelands'

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Acting on the Odendaal Commission's recommendations, the South African administration of South West Africa excised the great majority of the remaining reserve, reducing Etosha to its present 22,270 km2 and releasing the excised land for ethnically defined homelands. The park's modern shape is an artefact of apartheid territorial policy, not of ecological design.

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  2. Acting on the Odendaal Commission's recommendations, the South African administration of South West Africa excised the great majority of the remaining reserve, reducing Etosha to its present 22,270 km2 and releasing the excised land for ethnically defined homelands. The park's modern shape is an artefact of apartheid territorial policy, not of ecological design.
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  4. Etosha National Park
  5. Etosha cut to 22,270 km2 to create apartheid 'homelands'
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  7. Etosha National Park
  8. Community conservancy (CBNRM model)
  9. Fortress conservation
  10. Etosha proclaimed Game Reserve No. 2 by the German colonial administration
  11. Etosha cut to 22,270 km2 to create apartheid 'homelands'
  12. Namibia's Nature Conservation Amendment Act extends wildlife rights to communal-area residents
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  14. Etosha was proclaimed as Game Reserve No. 2 by Ordinance 88 of 1907 covering roughly 80,000-100,000 km2, and was reduced to about 22,270 km2 in 1970 following the Odendaal Commission to release land for apartheid-era homelands; MEFT's state-of-the-parks reporting describes the current protected-area estate.
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