Samburu National Reserve
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Samburu National Reserve
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 African elephant in the Samburu National Reserve |
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Samburu County , Kenya
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| surface | 165 km² | |
| WDPA ID | 2298 | |
| Geographical location | 0 ° 37 ' N , 37 ° 32' E | |
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| Setup date | 1985 | |
| administration | ? | |
The Samburu National Reserve (English Samburu National Reserve ) is a 165 km² nature reserve in central Kenya .
It is located in Samburu County on the Uaso Nyiro River , about 350 km north of Nairobi and borders the Buffalo Springs National Reserve , with which it forms a unit. The Shaba National Reserve, a few kilometers to the east, belongs to the same ecological area. The Samburu National Reserve rises from 850 m in the west to 1250 m in the east.
It is characterized by drought with annual precipitation of less than 400 mm. Dry bushland and open grasslands are the predominant forms of vegetation. Only the Uaso Nyeru is lined with a narrow gallery forest. There are some mountains covered with dry bushes.
Species of very dry habitats are characteristic, such as oryx antelopes , gerenuks , Grant's gazelles , two Dikdi cards and Grevy's zebras . The reticulated giraffes, which differ from other giraffe subspecies by their particularly high-contrast coloring, are also typical of the region . Other ungulates in the reserve are eland and waterbuck. Among the predators, lions , leopards , cheetahs and striped hyenas deserve special mention. The leopards in particular are less shy here than elsewhere, as they have been lured with bait for a long time. Birds such as vulture guinea fowl and ostriches are found here . In addition, the park is characterized by large herds of elephants and numerous other game species such as waterbuck and Nile crocodiles . However, the elephant populations are no longer constant. The number of these in the Samburu, Buffalo Springs and Shaba National Reserves was 2500 in 1973; in 1976/1977 it had decreased to 531. Herds occasionally migrate in from the north, which are much more shy than their local counterparts, who are used to the particularly pronounced mass tourism here. However, the Uaso Nyero, which used to have year-round water, has sometimes been drying up since the late 1970s because too much water is extracted upstream for agriculture. If the annual amount of water continues to decrease, the area will become unsuitable for elephants.
leopard
East African Oryx
Reticulated giraffes
Lions at the waterhole
Nile crocodile
Impalas
literature
- Wally and Horst Hagen: The African national parks as habitats for elephants. In: Vitus B. Dröscher : Save the elephants of Africa. 1990, pp. 229-230.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ William Riley, Laura Riley: Nature's Strongholds. The World's Great Wildlife Reserves. Princeton University Press, 2005. ISBN 0-691-12219-9