Ichkeul lake

Ichkeul (Arabic إشكل ) is a 12,600 -acre national park in the north of Tunisia, 25 km south west of the city of Bizerte.

The national park was established in 1980 primarily to protect the endangered birdlife and registered in the same year in the list of World Heritage of UNESCO. As a wetland, he is also under the protection of the Ramsar Convention. He was listed as endangered due to its increasing salinity and therefore listed in the Red List of World Heritage in Danger in 1996. 2006 Ichkeul was again removed from this list.

The Ichkeul Lake and its wetlands are important breakpoints of bird flight line of hundreds of thousands of Tunisia on the Mediterranean incoming birds such as ducks, geese, storks and flamingos, which here looking for food and build their nests. Ichkeul is the last remaining river a chain that once skirted over the whole of North Africa.

The Ichkeul the lake feeding water is also required to supply the Tunisian population and jams before the lake.