Maloti-Drakensberg Park
The Maloti-Drakensberg Park is a transboundary site
composed of the uKhahlamba Drakensberg National Park in South Africa
and the Sehlathebe National Park in Lesotho. The site has exceptional
natural beauty in its soaring basaltic buttresses, incisive dramatic
cutbacks, and golden sandstone ramparts as well as visually spectacular
sculptured arches, caves, cliffs, pillars and rock pools. The site's
diversity of habitats protects a high level of endemic and globally
important plants. The site harbors endangered species such as the Cape
vulture (Gyps coprotheres) and the bearded vulture (Gypaetus barbatus).
Lesotho’s Sehlabathebe National Park also harbors the Maloti minnow
(Pseudobarbus quathlambae), a critically endangered fish species only
found in this park. This spectacular natural site contains many caves
and rock-shelters with the largest and most concentrated group of
paintings in Africa south of the Sahara. They represent the spiritual
life of the San people, who lived in this area over a period of 4,000
years.