title: Kruger National Park in the 1980s
text: # Kruger National Park in the 1980s
  
  ## 1980
  
  Number of annual visitors to the Kruger National Park: 1980–1990 :
  
  | Year | Total visitors |
  | - | - |
  | 1979/1980 | 369 653 |
  | 1984/1985 | 509 173 |
  | 1989/1990 | 669 167 |
  
  * August – The Nyalaland Trail opens near Punda Maria in the far north of the Park.
  
  ## 1981
  
  * April 21 – A research team collects specimens of the African lungfish Protopterus annectens brieni Poll in a small pan in the Pumbe sandveld on the border with Mozambique. This is the first record of this species in the Park as well as the Republic of South Africa.
  
  ## 1983
  
  * August - The Bushman Trail opens.
  
  ## 1984
  
  * February 24 - Berg-en-Dal rest camp officially opens.
  
  ## 1985
  
  * July - Lichtenstein's hartebeest reintroduced to the park.
  
  ## 1988
  
  * July 11 - The Gonde-Gonde incident: a park vehicle detonated a landmine a few kilometres south of Pafuri. No one was hurt.
  