Title: South Africa's Golden Gate Highlands National Park management plan : critical reflections : commentary
Abstract: The Golden Gate Highlands National Park (GGHNP) is on the foothills of the Maluti Mountains and is the only national park in the eastern Free State Province of South Africa. The park is famous for its impressive sandstone formations. It was established in 1963 for the purpose of protecting a pristine area with much emphasis on conserving the sandstone formations and the montane and Afro-Alpine grassland biome. The GGHNP is situated in QwaQwa, which is well known for lacking sustainable development, and has been declared a Presidential Nodal Point because of high poverty, population growth and unemployment. These problems persist despite the fact that the park is the province's major tourist attraction. Previous research in and around the park has focused on geology, palaeontological finds, slope forms and the prominent lichen weathering, and remarkably little has been done on the institutional framework and policy environment governing the management and conservation of park resources.
Publication Year: 2013
Publication Date: 2013-11-01
Language: en
Type: article
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