CONSERVATION LESSONS from the past PART 3
“In December 1900 in a letter to Joseph Chamberlain, who was Colonial Secretary at the time and a future British Prime Minister, Chapman enclosed a copy of his proposal for a Big-Game Sanctuary.”
The history and origins of the Kruger National Park (KNP) have of course been thoroughly researched and extremely well documented over the years, but it strikes the writer that from the beginning little attention was paid to the ‘ecological’ aspects pertaining to its creation, with one notable exception.
That man was Abel Chapman, an English-born hunter, naturalist and prolific author who counted amongst his friends at Rugby school a certain Frederick Courteney Selous!
Not long before this, following presentations made to President Paul Kruger, some government-owned land lying between the Crocodile and Sabie Rivers had been set aside as a game
