Kazanka National Park
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| Location: | Zambia | ||
| Next city: | Serenje | ||
| Founding: | 1st February 1971 | ||
| Address: | National park website | ||
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The Kasanka National Park is the smallest national park in Zambia with 450 km² and is located southwest of Lake Bangweulus in the Bangweulus swamps west of the Muchinga Mountains . It includes rivers, lakes, lagoons, grasslands, marshland and Miombo forest .
Like the Bangweulus Marshes, the national park is home to a wide variety of bird species, including very rare species such as the fish owl and the African pygmy duck , and abundant antelope, including the rare Sitatunga antelope . There are also elephants, hippos, crocodiles, wildebeests, reed and waterbucks.
The area was designated as a national park on February 1, 1971 and since 1985 by Kasanka Trust Ltd. professionally developed and looked after for tourism. There are camps, chalets, lodges, sightseeing flights and trips, as well as charter flights from Lusaka and back.
literature
- Ansgar Vössing: Private management with a role model function in the Kasanka National Park Zambia . In: National Park . No. 139 , 2008, p. 44-46 .