Omo National Park
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| Location: | Region of the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples , Ethiopia | ||
| Surface: | 4068 km² | ||
| Founding: | 1959 | ||
The Omo National Park is a national park in the southwest of Ethiopia on the border with South Sudan and Kenya . It was designated in 1959 as the first national park in Ethiopia .
location
It is located in the region of the southern nations, nationalities and peoples north of Lake Turkana on the west bank of the Omo , 870 km southwest of Addis Ababa . The national park extends over an area of approximately 4068 km². It is between 500 and 2000 m above sea level. In the east it borders on the 1500 km² Tama Reserve, to which the Mago National Park connects. The park is not easy to get to, but a runway was recently set up near the National Park Administration on the Mui River.
Flora and fauna
The vegetation consists of open grass and bush savannah and gallery forest . The Omo National Park has the highest animal density in all of Ethiopia. There are buffalo , eland , giraffes , East African oryx , great and lesser kudu as well as lions , leopards and hyenas . The number of elephants is unknown. The park is the largest Ethiopian reservoir for the eland antelope , the largest gazelle in Africa.
threat
A gigantic sugar cane plantation in the Omo Valley (250,000 hectares ) is to be sacrificed a third of the national park area, 1500 km², by the authoritarian ruling Ethiopian government with ambitious goals under Chinese leadership . Above all, the resulting roads and canals are feared to have considerable restrictions on the migration of wild animals.
literature
- Wally Hagen, Horst Hagen: The African national parks as habitats for elephants . In: Vitus B. Dröscher (Ed.): Save the elephants of Africa . Rasch and Röhring, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-89136-291-9 , p. 223.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b deutschlandradiokultur.de , Weltzeit , April 28, 2016, Josepha Elmar: Nomads should settle down (April 30, 2016)