The area that was to become Jwana Game Park was initially a fenced mine lease area surrounding the Jwaneng mine. Today the park has a wide variety of antelope, giraffe, zebra, warthog, baboon, cheetah, ostrich, leopard, caracal and numerous smaller animal species.
The Gaborone Game Park has a prolific bird life and offers a wide variety of game. Although it is much smaller than most reserves in Botswana it is now the country’s third busiest reserve. The park has a good network of roads and also features a visitors’ education centre, a number of picnic sites, a game hide as well as a remotely situated bird hide which overlooks a well-vegetated wetland. Manyelanong Game Reserve
was founded in 1965 after Cape
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Vultures had nested in the hills of Manyelanong for hundreds of years. Otse Hill, which stands with its summit at a height of almost one and a half kilometers, is the highest point in Botswana. The cliff and its lower wooded slope were fenced off to serve as a sanctuary for nesting Cape Griffon Vultures and for many years the area was known as Otse Vulture Colony. The name Manyelanong is said to mean, ‘where vultures defecate’ in Setswana, and refers to the guano covered cliffs where the vultures live. The reserve currently boasts one of Botswana’s largest vulture colonies.
Mokolodi Nature Reserve has
played a pivotal role in educating people about cheetah and predators in general since it was founded in 1994. The Mokolodi Rhino Fund was established in 2012, following the substan-