Why Kruger National Park Is the World’s Greatest Living Classroom

Students conducting field research on foot in Kruger National Park South Africa living classroom conservation education

Drive west from Skukuza toward Pretoriuskop and the landscape changes within twenty kilometres. The granite soils give way to a different geology, the trees shift species, the grass composition alters. You have not crossed a provincial boundary or entered a new biome. You have simply moved across a soil gradient inside a single national park. […]