SANParks, Chris Patton on the Snowdonia National Park Podcast

Chris gives an overview of all the SANParks’ parks and contrasted their operation with parks in the United Kingdom. He makes special mention of Mapungubwe, because of the role a Welsh botanist, Illtyd Buller Pole-Evans played in its original establishment as a botanic reserve, and then spoke of the incredible discovery a decade later of the ruins of the Mapungubwe Cultural Landscape that would lead to its proclamation as a national park and world heritage site some 60 odd years later. He also points that Kruger National Park, and the entire country of Wales are roughly the same size at approximately 20 000km².