Nata Conservation Trust

Welcome to Nata Conservation Trust

About Nata Conservation Trust

Facilities offered in Nata conservation Trust

Camping; There is a pleasant campsite close to the entrance gate. The individual sites are very spacious and shady and have their own braai stand, concrete table and benches, power points and electric light. Each is named after an indigenous tree which grows here – the names are in Setswana: Mowana – baobab, mokoba – knobthorn, motswiri – leadwood. There is a thatched ablution block with flush toilets and hot showers.

Bird watching; Grasslands birds, such as ostrich, kori bustard, secretary bird and black korhaan may also be observed throughout the year. One local guide once referred to the korhaan as “the Makgadikgadi chopper” due to the noisy kraak sounds which it makes. But what makes the area so special are the large flocks of great and lesser flamingos which gather here when the pan is flooded during good rainfall years. However, when Sowa Pan is too deep, the birds tend to congregate on the smaller pans in the sanctuary where the water is much more shallow. Other water birds, such as spoonbills and herons, also call the sanctuary home. The sanctuary also occurs along the flight path of many Palaearctic and inter-African migrants such as steppe eagles and European and carmine bee-eaters.

1.   Canoueing
2.   Observation Hide
3.   Picknicking

Natural Resources 

1. Birds
2. Wildlife
3. Plants

Contact officers; 

Directions:

From Francistown, travel 170kilometres along the Maun road until you reach a veterinary fence with a communications tower nearby. From here, continue for another three kilometres and you will see the entrance on your left [about 20 kilometres before Nata]. The Sanctuary covers an area of 23km and includes the north eastern corner of Sowa Pan, the bordering grasslands and the lower course and mouth of the Nata river.

Address:

P O Box 207,Nata

Phone:

+267 2471995

Email:

nataconservationtrust@gmail.com