Apart from sixty-one Forest Nature Reserves, with a total area of 12,906·7 acres, the following national parks and nature reserves exist in the Union of South Africa:—

The area covered by these thirty-eight national parks and reserves is approximately 8¼ million acres, or 13,000 square miles. As a nation, therefore, the South Africans have no reason to be ashamed of the provision that has been made by means of national parks and reserves for the country's fauna and flora.