Etosha National Park

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1. Story
2. A Namibian national park of about 22,270 km2 around the Etosha salt pan. Proclaimed in 1907 by the German colonial administration as Game Reserve No. 2, it originally extended to the Skeleton Coast and covered on the order of 80,000–100,000 km2. It was cut to its present size in 1970 following the Odendaal Commission, which excised land to create ethnic 'homelands' under South African apartheid administration of South West Africa. Etosha is therefore a direct demonstration that park boundaries are political artefacts: they were drawn, enlarged and cut for reasons that had nothing to do with ecology.
3. Knowledge
4. Etosha National Park
5. Fortress conservation
6. Connections
7. Community conservancy (CBNRM model)
8. Fortress conservation
9. Etosha proclaimed Game Reserve No. 2 by the German colonial administration
10. Etosha cut to 22,270 km2 to create apartheid 'homelands'
11. Namibia's Nature Conservation Amendment Act extends wildlife rights to communal-area residents
12. Community conservancy (CBNRM model)
13. Etosha National Park
14. Kruger National Park
15. Serengeti National Park
16. Etosha proclaimed Game Reserve No. 2 by the German colonial administration
17. Kruger National Park constituted from the Sabi and Shingwedzi reserves
18. Serengeti National Park established on land used by Maasai pastoralists
19. Makuleke community forcibly removed from Pafuri into Kruger National Park
20. Tanzania begins relocating residents from Ngorongoro and demarcating Loliondo
21. Evidence
22. 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.