Kruger National Park

Kruger National Park, a famed safari park in South Africa's northern provinces of Limpopo and Mpumalanga, has recently been impacted by devastating floods. These floods, caused by torrential rains in South Africa and neighboring Mozambique in early 2026, have led to the park suspending visits and evacuating guests and staff by helicopter. The extreme rainfall, with some locations recording hundreds of millimeters, has inundated large areas of northeastern South Africa. The park's closure highlights the severity of the floods, which have caused widespread displacement and fatalities across the region. The events underscore the vulnerability of infrastructure and communities to extreme weather events and the challenges faced in managing wildlife and tourism in the face of climate change.