Kaboré-Tambi National Park
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| Location: | Burkina Faso | ||
| Next city: | Pô | ||
| Surface: | 1555 km² | ||
| Founding: | 1976 | ||
The Kaboré-Tambi National Park (French: parc national Kaboré-Tambi ) is a nature reserve ( IUCN Category II) in southern Burkina Faso , between Ouagadougou and the Ghanaian border near the city of Pô . It follows the course of the Nazinon . Founded in 1976 as the Pô National Park (parc national de Pô) , the park was later renamed after a ranger who was killed there in 1991. A little further south is another nature reserve, the Ranch de Nazinga .
The park covers 1555 km² and is 200 to 400 m above sea level . The annual precipitation is 600 to 800 mm.
The vegetation consists of typical Sudanese savannahs, but also gallery forests and alluvial areas of the Nazinon. There are lions , elephants , buffalo , warthogs , baboons , numerous antelope species and many birds.
literature
- Bassirou Belem, Blandine Marie Ivette Nacoulma, Roland Gbangou, Sié Kambou, Hanne Helene Hansen, Quentin Gausset, Søren Lund, Anders Raebild, Djingdia Lompo, Moussa Ouedraogo, Ida Theilade & Issaka Joseph Boussim (2007) Use of Non Wood Forest Products by local people bordering the “Parc National Kaboré Tambi”, Burkina Faso. Journal of Transdisciplinary Environmental Studies 6 ( PDF )
- Hagen, Wally and Horst: The African national parks as habitats for elephants. In: Vitus B. Dröscher (1990): Save the Elephants of Africa (p. 210)
