Karoo Gariep Wildlife Conservation Project
In the heart of the Karoo something wonderful is happening. Nature has been given a chance to come back to an area which used to be home to wild he... see more.
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On 23 September 1775, colonial explorers Robert Jacob Gordon and Baron Joachim Ammena van Plettenberg from Netherlands shot and killed as many as 26 hippo in one day on the Seekoei River (meaning Hippo River) that runs through the semi desert Karoo region of the Northern Cape of South Africa. A 1777 painting by RJ Gordon portrays one such hunting party in full flagrant sway. French explorer François le Vaillant wr...
