« Nick Zambatis was the former Manager: Biodiversity Conservation in Conservation Management: Kruger National Park. He retired in 2016. His first job in the Kruger was as a research technician based at Skukuza, which he started in 1987.
“The transfer from Pretoria to the Lowveld was ecstasy and the Kruger appointment was a dream come true,” he recalls. He holds an MSc degree on the determinants of grass composition and production in the Kruger National Park, from the University of KwaZulu-Natal.
In its most basic meaning, the term ‘vegetation’ refers to an assemblage of plant species, without reference to particular species, growth forms, spatial extent or characteristics of its environment. A less formal and perhaps more common way of referring to different types of vegetation is ‘veld types’.
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