The Centre situated in the chobe enclave in the flood plains of huhuwe, just above the Linyanti fault system.The Chobe Linyanti area is one of the most distinct ecosystems in Africa and one of the world's last remaining wilderness areas and with Hunting quotas, poaching/illegal wildlife trade, veld fires leading to range land degradation, The Chobe Linyanti area represents significant on-going ecological and biological processes in the evolution and development of fresh water and communities of plants and animals that needs urgent intervention.
. We are exactly in the center point of the "Kavango Zambezi Trans Frontier Conservation Area" which coverS 270'000 square kilometers in five countries.
The land is centered in a mopane forest, and has a rectangular shape, with its north side boarding a river and overlooking the Linyanti swamps. It is oriented NW SE. We are in presence of a clay soil forming a flat landscape. In some areas the land gently undulates, producing an alternating of depressions and mounds. A slight elevation occurs from north to south. Five specific areas(see map) have a higher density of big trees, like the Rain tree, Acacias, Ledwood, Purple pod terminalia and Bird plum tree offering nice shaded areas.
Going from the NE corner towards the SE corner, on a distance of 190m the area has predominantly been colonized by Sickle Bush and a few other types of plants and trees like the Fever Berry, the candle pod acacia, camel thorne, the Kalahari apple leaf, the Shepard tree etc... Further on the mopane woodlands dominates, there is a few holes dug by elephants and also anteater borrows. Many termites mounds with wolly caper bushes are scattered on this part of the land. The mopane woodland entirely covers the center part of the land on a length of 200m. Arriving at the SE corner, the area clears up, and the woodland is gradually replaced by an open savanna type of land with water holes. Two large pans borders the southern corners of the plot.
Coming back from the SW corner to the NW corner one encounters a dirt road, access through the land, which meanders through many various types of short and high grasses like the Hyperrinia thatching grass. Then this sandy way reaches the middle of the plot and continues beneath the mopane trees through Bristle grass, love grass and finger grass. Approching the riverbank, the road disappears leaving ground for camps sites and fire places surrounded by massive dead trees. A nice slope descents 1.8m on a distance of 25m before reaching a large lagoon. All over the land there are elephants paths and many animal tracks.
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