Sibiloi-Nationalpark

IUCN Category II - National Park

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The Sibiloi National Park is located in northern Kenya on the eastern shore of Lake Turkana. It was declared by UNESCO in 1997 as part of the Lake Turkana Parks World Heritage Site, after he was asked in 1973 by the Kenyan government as a national park protection.

The value of the 157 -acre area lies not only in a species-rich ecosystem with the most important breeding grounds for the Nile crocodile in Africa, but also in the famous archaeological site for fossils of Hominini and their ancestors, as well as other mammals. In the field Koobi Fora were, for example, 1972, the 2.5 million year old Homo rudolfensis discovered and in 1999, the 3.5 million year old Kenyanthropus platyops.

Apart from the weak salty Lake Turkana, the park is dry semi-desert. It is the habitat for a variety of birds, reptiles and mammals such as the gerenuk, the Beisa antelope or the rare small kudu and Grevy's zebras.