Bale-Mountains-Nationalpark

The Bale Mountains National Park (English: Bale Mountains National Park ) is a reserve in Ethiopia's Oromia region. He was expelled in 1969 and protects the largest contiguous alpine landscape in the whole of Africa.

Geography

The national park has an area of ​​2471 km ² and is located between 1550 m and 4377 m above sea level. It is the highest region in southern Ethiopia and is located about 420 km south of Addis Ababa. The park headquarters is in the city Dinsho. The Tullu Deemtu is with 4377 m the second highest mountain in Ethiopia.

Fauna

The park is considered to be so-called "hot spot" of biodiversity, as the local communities of species could develop in complete isolation.

A particularly rare and worthy of protection shall be the domiciled here Ethiopian wolf to its receipt, the both the Frankfurt Zoological Society, and the Ethiopian Wolf Conservation Programme ( EWCP ), which operated in cooperation between the University of Oxford and the Ethiopian government with the support of the National Geographic, will use. Additionally, there are occurrences of Bergnyalas and the Ethiopian Vervet monkey worth mentioning, and the fact that nine endemic species occur rodents.

In the National Park about 280 species of birds have been recorded, including 17 of the endemic species in Ethiopia alone seven: Gold neck Pipit, Yellow-headed Parrot, Strichelbrustkiebitz, Schwarzkopfgirlitz, Singtimalie, juniper woodpecker and the Meisensängerart Parisoma greaventris. Among the other remarkable species of birds, many birds of prey such as Spotted Eagle, Imperial Eagle, Black Eagle, Tawny Eagle, Steppe Eagle, Pallid Harrier, Augurbussard, Lanner Falcon, Lesser Kestrel, and bearded vultures are worth mentioning. But the wattled crane and the Rougetralle found in the park their habitat.

Warthog

Ethiopian Wolf

Rougetralle

Flora

Due to the extreme differences in altitude within the park prevails a mixed alpine flora. However Characteristic are the ubiquitous juniper trees.