Malolotja National Park covers 18,000 hectares (44,000 acres) of mountain wilderness on Eswatini's northwestern border with South Africa.
[2] Habitats include short grassland to thick riverine shrub, bushveld and Afromontane forest.
[1] Malolotja National Park adjoins the Songimvelo Game Reserve in South Africa, and together they form the Songimvelo-Malolotja Transboundary Protected Area or Peace Park, which in turn is part of the Lubombo Transfrontier Conservation Area.
[2] Mammals in the park include zebra, wildebeest, reedbuck, blesbok, red hartebeest, oribi, leopard, serval, aardwolf, jackal and bushpig.
Salgaocar is the company that is contracted to extract over 32 million tons of ore, amid much protest from locals over environmental repercussions and the detriment to one of the nation's main water supplies.