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Moremi Game Reserve | Botswana Game
Reserves: Moremi, hunted by the Bushman as long as 10,000 years ago, was
initiated by the Batawana tribe and covers some 4,871 km2, as the eastern section of the
Okavango Delta. Moremi is mostly described as one of the most beautiful wildlife reserves
in Africa ... Please click here for additional information about the Moremi Game Reserve.
Accommodation in and bordering the Moremi Game Reserve: |
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Khwai River Lodge - Moremi / Okavanga Delta
Nestled on the edge of a leadwood and fig tree forest, overlooking
the vast Khwai River floodplains and beyond into the Moremi Wildlife Reserve, sits the
luxurious Khwai River Lodge. Khwai is renowned for its ... |
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Moremi
Game Reserve - Botswana: Moremi combines mopane woodland and acacia forests,
floodplains and lagoons. It is the great diversity of plant and animal life that makes
Moremi so well known.
The idea to create a game reserve first originated in 1961 and was approved by the
Batawana at a kgotla in 1963. The area was then officially designated as a game reserve in
April 1965 and was initially run by the Fauna Conservation Society of Ngamiland. Moremi
was then extended to include Chiefs Island in 1976. In August 1979 the reserve was taken
over by the Department of Wildlife and National Parks. A further extension was added as
recently as 1992 and now the reserve contains within its boundaries approximately twenty
percent of the Okavango Delta.
Moremi is best visited in the dry season and game viewing is at its peak from July to
October, when seasonal pans dry up and the wildlife concentrates on the permanent water.
The winter months of May to August can be very cold at night, but pleasantly warm, under
clear blue skies, during the day. From October until the rains break in late November or
early December, the weather can be extremely hot - both day and night.
Mosquitoes are prevalent throughout the reserve and it is strongly recommended that
visitors should take anti-malarials before, during and for four weeks after their visit,
especially during the rainy season. Water for drinking should be boiled or chemically
treated. [Additional Info » Malaria
Risk Areas]
The reserve enjoys a wide diversity of habitat and is well known for the height of the
trees in the mopane tongue, which covers the central area. However, the mainland part
forms only about thirty percent of the reserve and is, in many ways untypical - the
remaining area being part of the Okavango Delta. Birdlife is prolific and varied, ranging
from water birds to shy forest dwellers. Elephants are numerous, particularly during the
dry season, as well as a range of other wildlife species from buffalo, giraffe, lion,
leopard, cheetah, wild dog, hyena, jackal and the full range of antelope, large and small,
including the red lechwe. Rhino, both black and white, were here in the past, but most of
the few remaining have been sought out for translocation to the protection of a sanctuary,
away from the attentions of illegal hunters. Wild dog, whose numbers are so rapidly
dwindling elsewhere, are regularly sighted in the Moremi and have been subject to a
project being run in the area since 1989 so these animals are often seen wearing collars
placed on them by the researchers. It is claimed that the Moremi area contains about
thirty percent of all living wild dog.
Visitors should note that there are no fuel supplies available in Moremi, the nearest fuel
and garage facilities being in Maun. Similarly, apart from the limited range of goods on
offer in Khwai Village, no food supplies are available in the Reserve. |
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