In Kruger national park there live thousands of animals. The specie that there is most of is the Impala. It’s looks like a deer, but is more like a gazelle. In Kruger Park about 90.000 Impalas live. The most endangered animal is the Cheetah. There are only around 200 cheetahs in the park. In kruger national park, all of the “big five” live, which are 5 mammals: the lion, the African elephant, the Cape Buffalo, the Leopard and the rare black Rhinoceros. More than 147 mammal species live in the park and there are 114 species of reptiles, including 3000 crocodiles.
There are living to many elephants in the Kruger park and in 1989 they stopped culling elephants and tried translocating them. But by 2004 the population of elephants was increased to 11.670 and by 2006 about 13.500 and by 2009 it was 11.672. The park can only contain about 8000 elephants. In 1995 they started using birth control. But they stopped that, after some time due to the problems with delivering of the contraception’s and the African crew working at the park didn’t approve of it.
Kruger national park has about 48 tons of ivery but they are only allowed to sell 30 tons. That’s decided by Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora also called CITES.
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