Kruger National Park in the 1980s explained

1980

Number of annual visitors to the Kruger National Park: 1980–1990^{[1] [2]}

Year	Total visitors
1979/1980	369 653
1980/1981	428 840
1981/1982	463 853
1983/1984	451 780
1984/1985	509 173
1989/1990	669 167

• August – The Nyalaland Trail opens near Punda Maria in the far north of the Park.^[3]

1981

• April 21 – A research team collects specimens of the African lungfish Protopterus annectens brieni Poll in a small pan in the Pumbe sandveld on the border with Mozambique. This is the first record of this species in the Park as well as the Republic of South Africa.^[4]

1983

• August - The Bushman Trail opens.

1984

• February 24 - Berg-en-Dal rest camp officially opens.^[1]

1985

• July - Lichtenstein's hartebeest reintroduced to the park.

1988

• July 11 - The Gonde-Gonde incident: a park vehicle detonated a landmine a few kilometres south of Pafuri. No one was hurt.^[1]

See also

• History of the Kruger National Park
• The Kruger National Park in the 1950s
• The Kruger National Park in the 1960s
• The Kruger National Park in the 1970s

Notes and References

1. Joubert, Salomon, The Kruger National Park: A History Volume II, High Branching, Johannesburg, 2007
2. Paynter, David, Die Krugerwildtuin in Woord en Beeld, Macmillan Suid-Afrika Uitgewers, 1986.
3. Schreiber . Arrie . October 1988 . Ten years of trails in the Kruger National Park . CUSTOS . 17 . 7 . 20–23 .
4. Pienaar . U. de V. . 1981 . Another important Ichthyological find in the Kruger National Park . Koedoe . 24 . 1 . 189–191 . 10.4102/koedoe.v24i1.628. free .