Garamba National Park

The Garamba National Park (French: Parc national de la Garamba ) in the Haut - Zaire, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Landscape

The landscape of the park consists of a 5000 -acre plateau at 710-1060 m altitude savannah, grassland and woods, on the river banks and in marshy lowlands and from the gallery forest. The plane is interrupted by granitic inselbergs. The area is rich in water. The main rivers are Dungu and Garamba Aka.

Fauna

In the area home to many large mammals, such as African elephant, giraffe, hippo, buffalo, and possibly about 30 white rhinos. The national park is the last place where the Northern white rhino lives in the wild. 2006, however, were only 3 individuals are observed, although there is reason to hope that more rhinos were just not detected. According to other reports, it was eradicated in 2008.

History

The National Park was established on 17 March 1938 and since 1980 has been part of the UNESCO World Natural Heritage. 1984, the park was placed on the Red List of endangered parks, since the outstanding amounts of the white rhino has declined scary.

After the park was painted in 1992 by the Red List of World Heritage in Danger, he resumed since 1996, in particular due to the poaching rhinos in the park. According to the Welterbekommittees also the unclear political- military situation prevented a speedy deletion of the park from the list.