Gambela-Nationalpark

The Gambela National Park is a region in the western lowlands of Gambela Ethiopia on the border with Sudan gelegner National Park. It has an area of ​​5061 km ² and was initially put under protection in order to protect a vast swamp with its special for Ethiopia wildlife. He therefore has, in addition to the typical for Ethiopia savannas and floodplains, forests flußbegleitende and slowly flowing waters and was populated by peoples of the Nuer and Anuak.

Wildlife

Among the more common mammals include elephant, Cape buffalo, giraffe, topi, waterbuck, Plains Zebra, White ear - kob, roan antelope, white neck Moorantilope and warthog. In the rivers hippo and Nile crocodile are found.

In addition, over 300 bird species have been recorded in the park. Of Shoebill, Grünstirnspint, red-headed Cistensänger, Fox Cistensänger, Basrah warbler, gray cap Eremomela, Gambagaschnäpper, Braunwangenmahali, bush sparrow, Auroraastrild, Larvenamarant, Grauastrild and Long-tailed Paradise Widow considered rare or threatened. Because of the importance for bird life of the park has been classified as an Important Bird Area.

Endangering

The park was indeed already provided in 1973 under protection, but there is a lack of effective measures to enforce this protection. Impairments arising, inter alia, to from it, this is the area of cotton plantations and refugee camps who fled before the Civil War South Sudanese surrounded. The largest area of ​​protected area of the country is threatened just as the opposite location in Sudan Boma National Park by new settlements, hunting for bushmeat and the system of fields and pastures by slash and burn of the Nilotic peoples.