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Leribe, Leribe 300

Ts'ehlanyane National park

Approved

A national park in Lesotho located in the Maluti Mountain in Leribe district and is part maluti drakensberg transfrontier conservation area. This Lesotho northern park protects a high altitude, 2.6m(8.5ft) patch of rugged wilderness, including one of the Lesotho's stands of indigenous forest with a number of rare undergrowth plants that are unique to this woodland habitat. The name "Ts'ehlanyane" is the local common name for the berg bamboo (Thamnocalamus tessellates), from which the river and park take their name. It is fitting that the park should bear the name of this Drakensberg endemic plant, as it may be the most important refuge for this plant in the entire maluti-drakrnsberg mountain range.