Kafue-Nationalpark
The Kafue National Park (English Kafue National Park ) is a nature reserve in Zambia.
It covers 22,400 km ², about 190 km from north to south and 85 km from east to west, on Lufupa and Lunga, two tributaries of the Kafue, making it one of the largest national parks in the world. It is located some 200 km west of the town Kafue in the upper reaches of the river of the same name at 370 km ² Itezhitezhi Lake, which is applied in front of the reservoir in the Kafue dam and its water level is regulated.
The park is regarded as Africa's richest antelope area. He includes in the north at Lufupa Forest ( Baikiaea plurijuga, called Zambezi teak, which is in great demand because of its hardness as railway sleepers and flooring, Pterocarpus angolensis, Guibourtia coleosperma ) and wide open meadows, among which the Busanga Floodplains are the best known. In the south, the park of forest converts only in bushland and then takes more and more to the character of the Kalahari. Here the Nazhila level is considered to be particularly attractive.
The wildlife of the park is considered to be highly poached. The trees, mainly teak, is greatly thinned. Poverty and the economic pressures of the 1990s have left their mark.
With about 18 animals per 1000 square kilometers ( the northern part ) of the National Park is home to one of the last viable wild dog populations of Africa. Other large predators in the park are lions, hyenas and leopards spot. The most common herbivores are impala, puku and warthogs, moreover, you can find zebras, wildebeest, hartebeest, lychee red lechwe, Großkudus, waterbuck, bushbuck, duiker and Oribis. Relatively rare are buffalo, sable and roan antelope. For the avifauna of the National Park is one among others classified by the IUCN as endangered figs Barbet.