ACROSS THE BORDER GONAREZHOU, ZIMBABWE’S CONSERVATION SUCCESS STORY

With an astonishing diversity of terrain, incorporating the iconic sandstone Chilojo Cliffs, plunging waterfalls, natural spring lines, three major rivers, magnificent baobab trees on rocky ridges, pockets of open flood plains and mopane woodlands with tracts of palm tree forests, the area is traversed by Africa’s largest land mammal, as well as an estimated 88 other mammal species. This is evident as their footprints and pathways are subtly moulded into, and seen across, the wide sweeping sand rivers and through the forest woodlands. It is no wonder then, that the name ‘Gonarezhou’, when translated in the local language, means ‘Place of the Elephants’.