• Supports enormous variety of natural vegetation.​
• ​Many species are highly localized.
• ​​Grass Veld is the characteristic vegetation of high velds, dominated by red grass species.
• ​Middle Velds favor both red grass and drought resistant species of grasses.
• Thorn Velds consist of thorny acacias and aloes, dwarf, drought resistant bushes, and desert scrubs.
• Middle Velds and High Velds have leguminous, fire-resistant trees of the Brachystgia genus.
• Open grounds have tall perennial grasses, red grasses, and flowering herbs, which easliy catch fire during the dry season.
• Low Velds have parklike plant covers. Higher areas have acacia and marula trees with plum-like fruits.​
• ​Lower areas have tufted finger grasses, euphorbias, mopane trees, the baobab, tall fan palm, and succulents.

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Fauna

• ​Major species of mammals, reptiles, and birds have thinned out due to mass slaughter, trophy hunting, and the encroachments of farmers​
• ​Lion, leopard, cheetah, giraffe, elephant, hippopotamus, oryx, kudu, eland, sable antelope, and roan antelope live near protected areas of  parks like Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park, ​Limpopo National Park, Kruger National Park, and Gonarezhou National Park.​
• ​Reptiles, small mammals, and all birds except for the ostrich still live in the wild.
• ​Small numbers of antelopes called blesboks still roam the veld grasslands.
• Herds of zebra and antelope like wildebeests, gemsboks, springboks, and elands roam the grasslands of the Kalahari.
• Black rhino, white rhino, buffalo, eland, and hartebeests are found in Vaal River reserves.
• Limpopo River is a refuge to over 34 species of frog and over 116 species of reptiles including crocodiles, blue-tailed sand lizards, and spade-snouted worm lizards.
• More than 50 species of fish, including lungfish, are found in the Limpopo River.
• Antelopes and hyraxes are found in Kopjes, which dot the velds.
• Kruger National Park has elephants, African wild dogs, impalas, zebras, wildebeests, and 145 other mammal species.
• Aardvarks (earth pigs in Dutch) are the veld's strangest looking residents.

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