Maloti-Drakensberg Park: Lefa la Tlhaho le setso le kopanyang dinaha tse pedi

Maloti-Drakensberg Park ke sebaka sa Bohlokwa ba Lefatshe sa UNESCO se atolosang moeding wa Mmuso wa Lesotho le Rephaboliki ya Afrika Borwa. Sebaka sena se kopanya Sehlabathebe National Park (6,500 ha) le uKhahlamba Drakensberg Park (242,813 ha), ka kakaretso ya 249,313 ha le buffer zone ya 329,909 ha. E ngodisitswe ka 2000, meedi ya yona ya ntlafatswa ka 2013 le ka tokiso e nyane ka 2024.

Sebaka sena se tumme ka botle bo ikgethang ba tlhaho: marako a basalt a telele, maralla a sandstone a mmala wa kgauta, diphula tse tebileng, mahaha, mafika le matangoana a majwe. Dithaba tsena di boetse di sebetsa jwalo ka mohlodi wa bohlokwa wa metsi Afrika e ka Borwa, moo Noka ya Thukela e phallelang Leoatleng la India, athe Senqu/Orange e lebile Leoatleng la Atlantic.

Maloti-Drakensberg e sireletsa mefuta e mengata ya bophelo, haholoholo dimela tse ikgethang tse fetang 250. E tsejwa e le Global Centre of Plant Diversity and endemism, hape e kenyeletsa dibaka tsa dimela tsa subalpine le alpine KwaZulu-Natal, ho kenyeletswa le mekhoabo e ka hodimo ho 2,750 m (RAMSAR site). Hape ke Important Bird Area, e nang le mefuta e kang Yellow-breasted Pipit, Cape vulture (Gyps coprotheres) le bearded vulture (Gypaetus barbatus).

Ka lehlakoreng la setso, sebaka sena se na le bonono ba majwe bo boholo ka ho fetisisa Afrika e ka borwa ho Sahara: dibaka tse hakanyetswang ho 690 le ditshwantsho tse fetang 35,000. Ditshwantsho tsena di bontsha bophelo ba moya ba batho ba San ba phetseng mona ka dilemo tse fetang 4,000; hape ho na le dipente tsa lekgolo la bo19 le la bo20 tse amanang le batho ba buang dipuo tsa Bantu.

Boleng ba sona bo amohetswe ka ditekanyetso tsa UNESCO (i), (iii), (vii), le (x). Leha ho le jwalo, botshepehi ba sebaka bo ntse bo tobane le ditshoso tse kang dimela tse hlaselang, mollo, kgoholeho ya mobu, ntshetsopele ya meaho, kgatello ya bohahlaudi le ho tsoma ka molao o seng teng. Tsamaiso e kopanetsweng ya Lesotho le Afrika Borwa, hammoho le melawana ya tshireletso ya lefa le tikoloho, e reretswe ho boloka tlhaho, bonono ba majwe le seriti sa sebaka sena sa lefatshe.

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