While many people already know about the Richtersveld National Park, more and more people are catching on about its equally large southern neighbour, the Richtersveld Community Conservancy. Now a World Heritage site. In recognition of this vanishing lifestyle, and of the rare botanical diversity it helps protect, the Conservancy has been declared the core of a new World Heritage Site. Download the statement of universal value. That was endorsed by UNESCO.

Book Online for Caravan Park. Now you can make online booking for the caravan park. We should continuously strive to develop all the resources of the Richtersveld, including its natural, cultural and human resource, in a manner that is sustainable and benefits the people of the region so that our future will be secure.

A World Heritage Site! 10 years ago, the historically disadvantaged people of the Richtersveld united, reclaimed title to their traditional land, and set it aside as conservancy to be forever conserved for research and tourism. It is the last refuge of Nama people living what is known as the transhumance lifestyle - to migrate seasonally with their livestock from mountains to the river and so make sustainable use of the fragile succulent ecosystem.

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Tucked away on the Atlantic coast in the far northwest corner of South Africa,. The Richtersveld is a remote region; hot, dry and seemingly lifeless. It has a certain esoteric beauty, but why should such a barren place be worthy of World Heritage status? The Richtersveld has both natural and cultural criteria that make it unique. The past 15 years Umkulu Safari and Canoe Trails has offered some of .