The Makgadikgadi Salt Pan is situated in the middle of the dry savanna of north-eastern Botswana, is one of the largest salt flats in the world.
In 2003, in the Makgadikgadi National Park near the Jack's Camp, a research project, the Makgadikgadi Brown Hyena Project, was established to study this elusive predator and to understand better how to protect it from the threat of extinction.
The Makgadikgadi Pans are one of the best places to spot brown hyenas (Hyaena brunnea).
The Makgadikgadi Pans Game Reserve is the scene of large migrations of zebra and wildebeest from the Boteti River across to Nwetwe Pan.
Lying southeast of the Okavango Delta and surrounded by the Kalahari Desert, Makgadikgadi is technically not a single pan, but many pans with sandy desert in between, the largest being the Sua (Sowa), Nwetwe and Nxai Pans.