Kafue National Park
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| Location: | Lusaka , Zambia | ||
| Next city: | Kafue | ||
| Surface: | 22,400 km² | ||
| Founding: | 1950s | ||
| Address: | official website | ||
The Kafue National Park (English Kafue National Park ) is the largest national park in Zambia . The park was established in the 1950s and covers 22,400 square kilometers . According to Wim van Binsbergen, the park was created in the 1930s.
geography
Kafue is about 190 kilometers from north to south and about 85 kilometers from east to west. The park is located on the Lufupa and Lunga , two tributaries of the Kafue , a good 200 kilometers west of the city of Kafue . Here is also the 370 square kilometer Itezhitezhi Lake , which is created in front of the reservoir of the Kafue Dam and regulates its water level.
Flora and fauna
In the north of Kafue in the Lufupa forest ( Baikiaea plurijuga you can find so-called Zambezi teak, which is in great demand as a railway sleeper and parquet because of its hardness. In addition, the area of Pterocarpus angolensis , Guibourtia coleosperma ) and wide, open floodplains, including the Busanga - The most famous floodplains are marked In the south, the park changes from forest to scrubland and then increasingly takes on the character of the Kalahari . The Nazhila Plain is particularly attractive here.
The game population in the park is considered heavily poached . The trees, especially teak, are heavily thinned.
With around 18 animals per 1000 square kilometers (in the northern part), the national park is home to one of the last viable African wild dog populations. Other large predators in the park include lions , spotted hyenas, and leopards . The most common herbivores impalas , puku and warthogs , moreover, we find plains zebra , wildebeest , hartebeest , lychee lechwe , kudu , waterbuck , bushbuck , duiker and Oribis . Buffalo , sable antelopes and roan antelopes are relatively rare . The avifauna of the national park includes the fig-bearded bird, classified as endangered by the IUCN .
Web links
- Official website (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.zambiatourism.com/destinations/national-parks/kafue-national-park
- ↑ From tribe to ethnicity in western Zambia . In: Wim van Binsbergen, Peter Geschiere (Ed.): Old Modes Of Production And Capitalist Encroachment. Anthropological Explorations In Africa . 1985.
- ↑ When eating, giraffes are at the table in: FAZ from December 15, 2011, page R5
- ^ Anne A. Carlson, Ph.D., Millennium Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Ron Carlson, Field Consultant, and Fred B. Bercovitch, Ph.D., Project Director: African Wild Dog Conservation Project, Kafue National Park, Zambia 2004 Annual Report. Conservation and Research for Endangered Species Zoological Society of San Diego. ( http://cres.sandiegozoo.org/projects/hc_wild_dogs_zambia_2004report.pdf online PDF)
- ↑ Lester L. Short and Jennifer FM Horne: Toucans, Barbets and Honeyguides - Ramphastidae, Capitonidae and Indicatoridae . Oxford University Press, Oxford 2001, ISBN 0-19-854666-1 , p. 199