Kruger National Park in the 1980s
# Kruger National Park in the 1980s

## 1980

Number of annual visitors to the Kruger National Park: 1980–1990 :

| Year | Total visitors |
| - | - |
| 1979/1980 | 369 653 |
| 1984/1985 | 509 173 |
| 1989/1990 | 669 167 |

* August – The Nyalaland Trail opens near Punda Maria in the far north of the Park.

## 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.

## 1983

* August - The Bushman Trail opens.

## 1984

* February 24 - Berg-en-Dal rest camp officially opens.

## 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.
