Atherstone Nature Reserve in South Africa

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Atherstone Nature Reserve
Type	wild
Size	23 500 hectare
Place	Dwaalboom
Province	Limpopo
Country	South Africa
Related persons
Owner	Norman Edward Atherstone Transvaal Nature Conservation Department Limpopo Tourism and Parks Board


Key People
Zoological department
Elephant department
Record history
History of updates	2020-10-20

Latest document update	2020-10-30 07:03:11
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Description

Atherstone Nature Reserve, in Dwaalboom, South Africa .

Comments / picturesAtherstone Nature Reserve is a 23 500 hectare reserve situated close to Dwaalboom, in the Limpopo, province in South Africa. The reserve consists mainly of vast savannah plains with bushveld and Kalahari grasslands eco-systems. Besides antelopes, zebras and giraffes the black rhino and elephants are one of the highlights of Atherstone.

Norman Edward Atherstone, who was originally a cattle farmer and become the first game farmer In this area, did a lot to re-introduce some game on his farmland, which was then called the Atherstone Game Reserve. He never had a wife nor children and in his last will, donated his farms to the former Transvaal Nature Conservation Department. In 1990 the Atherstone Nature Reserve was founded and it became the Atherstone Collaborative Nature Reserve in 1994, after some private farms were also incorporated into the reserve.

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Koehl, Dan (2025). Atherstone Nature Reserve, Elephant Encyclopedia. Available online at https://www.elephant.se/location2.php?location_id=3075. (archived at the Wayback machine)

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