« Nick Zambatis was the former Manager: Biodiversity Conservation in Conservation Management: Kruger National Park. He retired in 2016. His first job in the Kruger was as a research technician based at Skukuza, which he started in 1987. “The transfer from Pretoria to the Lowveld was ecstasy and the Kruger appointment was a dream come true,” he recalls. He holds an MSc degree on the determinants of grass composition and production in the Kruger National Park, from the University of KwaZulu-Natal.
In the previous issue of KRUGER MAGAZINE several terms and concepts describing vegetation groupings at different spatial scales were introduced and explained.
In this issue, the first two vegetation Allies of the Kruger National Park (KNP) are described. To recap, ‘Allies’ in the KNP context are either veld types with similar dominant vegetation but on different geological formations, or similar geology and dominant vegetation but considerably different geomorphology. Allies 1 & 2 are unique in the KNP, each consisting of one Landscape only.
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