SAN Parks



South African National Parks

(SAN Parks)

SAN Parks is the governing body of all South African National Parks. SAN Parks is also one of the world’s leading conservation and scientific research bodies and is a leading proponent of maintaining and preserving the indigenous natural environment (indigenous fauna and flora) that can be found in South Africa.

This governing body assures the National Parks infrastructure and security is safe and accessible for everyone to use at any time and makes sure the parks carrying capacity is not reached. The carrying capacity refers to, the amount of people that can be in a National Park at one time, without the fauna and flora in the specific park getting damaged.

  

SAN Parks is the governing body of all South African National Parks!



NOTE: SAN Parks doesn’t manage UNESCO accredited World Heritage Sites or Nature Reserves within the different provinces, both of these mentioned are managed by Provincial governing bodies (municipalities)!

  

United Nations Environmental, Scientific and Cultural Organisation!



SAN Parks are responsible for the following National Parks in South Africa:

·         Ais-Ais National Park (Northern Cape)

·         Addo Elephant National Park (Eastern Cape)

·         Agulhas National Park (Western Cape)

·         Augrabies Falls National Park (Northern Cape)

·         Bontebok National Park (Western Cape)

·         Camdeboo National Park (Eastern Cape)

·         Golden Gate Highlands National Park (Free State)

·         Karoo National Park (Western Cape)

·         Kgalagardi Trans Frontier National Park(Northern Cape)

·         Knysna Lake National Park (Western Cape)

·         Kruger National Park (Limpopo & Mpumalanga)

·         Mapungubwe National Park (Limpopo)

·         Marakele National Park (Limpopo)

·         Mountain Zebra National Park (Eastern Cape)

·         Namaqua National Park (Western Cape)

·         Table Mountain National Park (Western Cape)

·         Tankwa Karoo National Park (Northern Cape)

·         Tsitsikamma National Park (Western & Eastern Cape)

·         Vaalbos National Park (Northern Cape)

·         West Coast National Park (Western Cape)

·         Wilderness National Park (Western Cape)

UNESCO accredited World Heritage Sites in South Africa:

(UNESCO- United Nations Environmental Scientific and Cultural Organisation)

1.      Robben Island - since 1999 (Western Cape)

2.      Isimangaliso Wetland Park  - since 1999 (KwaZulu-Natal)

3.      Cradle of Humankind - since 1999 (Gauteng &North West)

4.      UKhahlamba Drakensberg Park  - since 2000 (KwaZulu-Natal)

5.      Mapungubwe Cultural Landscape - since 2003 (Limpopo)

6.      Cape Floral Region - since 2004 (Western Cape)

7.      Vredefort Dome  - since 2005 (Free State & North West)

8.       Richtersveld National Trans Frontier Park - since 2004 (Northern Cape)