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New reserve to protect more than just wildlife

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"South Africa’s Drakensberg mountains have a new 6 500ha nature reserve. The recently established Northern Drakensberg Nature Reserve is working with communities and will preserve ancient rock art, vital grasslands, and water sources for millions of people. It connects a neighbouring World Heritage Site, the uKhahlamba Drakensberg Park in KwaZulu-Natal, to another nature reserve, the Sterkfontein Nature Reserve in

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