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Close ✕Etosha National Park
A Namibian national park of about 22,270 km2 around the Etosha salt pan.
-18.9, 16.3 · regional · 1907 (Game Reserve No. 2) – present; present boundaries from 1970
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- is extends protection beyond of Community conservancy (CBNRM model) — Namibia's communal conservancies, 86 of them covering about 166,184 km2 by 2023, hold wildlife on communal land outside the state park estate, extending habitat beyond Etosha's post-1970 boundary.
- boundary determined by policy Fortress conservation — Etosha's proclamation in 1907 and its 1970 reduction under the Odendaal Commission show park boundaries being set and reset by colonial and apartheid territorial policy rather than ecological criteria.
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